BJP MLC R Shankar nowadays resigned from the legislative council an afternoon after the ruling birthday birthday celebration not noted his request for a price price tag to contest withinside the May 10 Assembly elections.
Shankar went to Karnataka Legislative Council chairman Basavaraj Horatti`s workplace and tendered his hand-written resignation.
Shankar become a number of the 17 competition MLAs who helped the BJP convey down the Congress-JD(S) coalition authorities and helped the birthday birthday celebration shape a central authority below the management of B S Yediyurappa in 2019. He become later disqualified from the Karnataka Assembly in 2019, and elected to the Council.
Shankar become intending to contest in the imminent Assembly election from Ranebennur however the birthday birthday celebration gave the price price tag to Arun Kumar Pujar.
Speaking to reporters, he stated he become amongst the ones who “gave existence to the BJP authorities in Karnataka however the ones very humans are being sacrificed”.
“Somewhere I am harm that I reached this level due to the fact I favoured the BJP. I should have served the humans of my taluk however that possibility did now no longer happen,” he stated.
He introduced that the humans of his constituency had been geared up to aid him if he contested the Assembly election again.
Repenting that he dedicated a mistake through now no longer sticking to the choice of his electorate, he stated he desired to “rectify it and clean the money owed of the humans of Ranebennur”.
“I might have been the MLC for any other 3 years. I become now no longer capable of assist my workers, get humans a borewell, a residence or switch the officials. There become a compulsion to do politics whilst ultimate in a precarious situation. Today I were given the freedom. I am a unfastened fowl now,” Shankar stated.
Elected because the lone MLA of Karnataka Pragnyavantha Janatha Party (KPJP) from Ranebennur constituency in 2018, Shankar later joined the Congress.
However, later he withdrew his aid to Congress-JD(S) coalition authorities led through then Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy, whilst some MLAs from each events resigned. He become then disqualified thinking about the truth that he become a Congress member.
Shankar later joined the BJP however become now no longer given a price price tag to contest from his constituency withinside the December 2019 through-election. Instead, he become made an MLC, with the birthday birthday celebration claiming that “survey reports” had now no longer been in favour of fielding him withinside the through-election in his constituency.