Karnataka Municipality and Local Bodies Minister Ramesh Jarkiholi today said people from the saffron party were in touch with him to join Congress.
“BJP people are in touch with us…they want to join our party,” Mr Jarkiholi said.
Speaking to reporters at Belagavi, he said the Congress high command would decide about inducting them.
Not wishing to give any numbers about how many of them were willing to join Congress, the Minister, in response to a question, said “you can say that they are in touch with me.”
Amid discontent among some of the ruling coalition members in Karnataka, Mr Yeddyurappa had claimed at the party executive meet yesterday that several leaders from both Congress and JD(S) were ready to join the BJP.
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Defending former Chief Minister Siddaramaiah’s statement against presentation of a fresh budget, Mr Jarkiholi said he had only given a suggestion and it was left to Mr Kumaraswamy to take a decision on whether to accept it or not.
“But our intention has been fulfilled as it has been agreed to continue the schemes and programmes of our earlier Congress government.”
Discordant voices have emerged from the Congress and JDS on a host of issues, including presentation of the budget, as Siddaramaiah, who held the finance portfolio in the previous government, had recently said there was no need for a fresh budget and insisted that a supplementary budget would suffice.
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