BN MLA Shankaralinge Gowda Quits Party And State Assembly To Join JD(S): 'BJP Did Not Respect My Loyalty' Gowda Says

Bangalore BJP MLA Shankaralinge Gowda Quits Party And State Assembly To Join JD(S): 'BJP Did Not Respect My Loyalty' Gowda Says

BJP MLA Shankaralinge Gowda announced Wednesday he is quitting his post as a state assemblyman in Bangalore, India and leaving the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) by Friday, to the join Janata Dal (Secular) (JDS).

"I will formally join JD(S) after quitting from the assembly membership and actively participate in party-building activities in JD(S)," BJP Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) Shankaralinge Gowda said.

"I am disappointed with the developments in BJP, which did not keep its promise of giving me a ministerial berth and did not respect my loyalty. There is no future for honest men in BJP."

Things got worse for BJP on Thursday as two more Ministers resigned, C.P. Yogeshwar and Narasimha Nayak (Raju Gowda).

Yogeshwar and Nayak have also said they will quit their Assembly seats on Friday and join the Congress, according to The Hindu.

If four more BJP MLAs quit, the party will lose its majority in the Indian Assembly.

Former BJP MLAs Gowda, Yogeshwar and Nayak were forced to quit this week and join the Congress to prepare for Assembly elections, now that the Indian government is announcing the elections to urban local bodies (ULBs).

"Since the ULB polls are like the semi-finals ahead of the Assembly elections, they have to get ticket for their followers in their constituencies to contest the ULB polls," a source close to the BJP MLAs told The Hindu. "Hence they did not have any option but to the quit the BJP now."

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