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‘Invite Bangarappa to rejoin Congress’

SHIMOGA: Congress leader and former Minister H. Vishwanath has suggested that the party should invite its former leaders, such as State President of the Samajwadi Party S. Bangarappa to rejoin it keeping in mind the interest of the backward classes.

Talking to presspersons he said that the former Congress leaders who introduced several useful welfare measures when they were in power should appreciate the inevitability of their rejoining the Congress.

He recalled that he had urged the then Chief Minister S.M. Krishna to prevail upon the party leader Sonia Gandhi in 2004, to prevent Bangarappa from quitting the party. “But it was not supported by the then Minister in the Krishna Government Kagodu Thimmappa who termed Bangarappa’s decision to quit the Congress as a good riddance to the Congress party,” said Mr. Vishwanath.

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