From Our Special Correspondent
Daijiworld Media Network - Bangalore
Bangalore, Mar 17: Samajwadi Party’s lone MLA from Karnataka, C P Yogeshwar, is set to rejoin Congress party at the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee office in Bangalore on Tuesday.
Yogeshwar, who started his political innings from the Congress party, had quit the party in 2008 and joined the BJP after B S Yeddyurappa became the chief minister.
One of the early victims of BJP’s widely criticised "Operation Kamala," Yogeshwar contested on the saffron party’s lotus symbol and got elected. He was rewarded with a cabinet ministerial berth.
However, he had quit the BJP government as forest minister on the eve of the 2013 assembly polls in the State and joined SP under the party national president Mulayam Singh Yadav.
Yogeshwar contested from the SP and got elected from the Channapatna assembly constituency in the assembly elections.
He was assiduously wooed by Congress and JD(S) in last year’s lok sabha by-election from Bangalore Rural constituency following former chief minister H D Kumaraswamy retaining his assembly seat. Yogeshwar, however, extended his support to the present Energy minister D K Shivakumar’s brother D K Suresh against Kumaraswamy’s wife, Anita Kumaraswamy, in the by-election.
Yogeshwar will be rejoining the Congress party in the presence of KPCC president Dr G Parameshwara in the party office on Tuesday.