Bangalore, Jan 21: Three expelled BJP MPs from Karnataka who had supported the United Progressive Alliance government in the 2008 trust vote in parliament are likely to get Congress tickets for the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections.
They are H.T. Sangliana (Bangalore North), Manjunath Khunnur (Dharwad South) and Manorama Madhwaraj (Udupi). The three former MPs joined the Congress formally on Tuesday (Jan 20) at New Delhi in the presence of senior Congress leaders.
Pu Sangliana, the former super cop from Bangalore, told reporters: “We were feeling suffocated in the BJP. The Congress is the real secular party.” Pu Sangliana had defeated former railways minister C.K. Jaffer Sharief in the 2004 Lok Sabha elections.
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