Karnataka Election 2023: A day after resigning from the Karnataka Assembly over his candidature not being reconsidered by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for the upcoming state Assembly elections, former chief minister Jagadish Shettar joined the Congress party. 

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Shettar, a six-time Hubballi-Dharwad Central MLA, resigned from the Assembly on Sunday. The former chief minister alleged that he has been humiliated by denying the ticket and added that there was a systematic conspiracy against him in the ruling party.

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Ignoring Savadi's request, the BJP had earlier this week given the Athani seat in Belagavi district to sitting MLA Kumathalli.

Savadi is a three-time MLA from Athani but lost in the 2018 elections to Kumathalli, who was in the Congress at the time.

Kumathalli was among the group of defectors who helped the BJP bring down the Congress-JD(S) coalition government and form its own government under the leadership of B S Yediyurappa in 2019.
He later joined the BJP and successfully contested the Athani by-election on the party ticket.

Karnataka Assembly elections 2023 will be held in a single phase on May 10 and results will be announced on May 13. Exits polls are likely to be out after the voting on May 10.

With PTI Inputs