BENGALURU: Yet another wave of discontent ran across Karnataka BJP ranks as former chief minister and Bangalore North MP, DV Sadananda Gowda, openly voiced his dissatisfaction after being denied a ticket by his party for the Lok Sabha elections.
Gowda’s dissent follows another senior party functionary, KS Eshwarappa, recently.
Gowda, 71, said he would make his next course of action known on Tuesday, adding that there is nothing more left to justify the claim that BJP is a “party with a difference”.
Addressing reporters on Monday, Gowda revealed he had been approached by Karnataka Congress leaders with an invitation to join their ranks. He said he would consult his family before making a final decision on Tuesday.
“It is true that I have been contacted by others. It is also true that our party leaders contacted and discussed with me. Last night, an office-bearer of our party came to me and tried to pacify me,” Gowda, a former chief of the state unit of the BJP, who had won the Bangalore North seat in 2014 and 2019, said in response to a question.
Earlier, BJP moved sitting Udupi-Chikmagalur MP Shobha Karandlaje, the Union junior minister for agriculture and farmers’ welfare, to Bangalore North as the party’s candidate for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.