Ex-Karnataka CM and prominent Lingayat face Jagadish Shettar returns to BJP
New Delhi: Former Karnataka Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar Thursday returned to BJP, giving a major ‘Lingayat’ fillip to the party ahead of the Lok Sabha election.
As Congress shines in Karnataka, big setback for BJP's turncoat Jagdish Shettar
Bengaluru: Former BJP leader Jagdish Shettar, who crossed over to the Congress after being denied a ticket to contest the Karnataka assembly elections, has lost to the BJP's Mahesh Tenginakai by nearly 30,000 votes in the Hubli-Dharwad Central assembly segment.
BL Santhosh engineered my exit from BJP: Jadish Shettar
Bengaluru: Jagadish Shettar, the former Chief Minister of Karnataka who joined Congress before the Assembly polls, has claimed that his exit from the BJP was engineered by the party's general secretary BL Santhosh.