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Daijiworld Media Network - Udupi (SS)
Udupi, May 7: Former minister Pramod Madhwaraj on Saturday May 7, joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) within hours of filing his resignation letter to the Congress party.
He joined the BJP in the presence of chief minister Basavaraj Bommai, state BJP president Naveen Kumar Kateel and other ministers in Bengaluru.
Earlier, in the day Pramod Madhwaraj laid rest to all speculations by resigning from the Congress party. He even tweeted his resignation letter. He mentioned in it that he had decided not to accept the post of vice president of KPCC and also to tender resignation to the primary membership of Congress party as no worthwhile steps had been taken by the party to redress his grievances regarding the prevailing situation in the Udupi district Congress party.
It may be recalled that many state and central leaders of the party had tried to convince Madhwaraj to stay in the party and had assured him of giving a higher position. He was later given the post of vice-president of KPCC.
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Former Udupi MLA Pramod Madhwaraj resigns from Congress
Daijiworld Media Network – Udupi
Udupi, May 7: Putting rest to all speculations, former minister Pramod Madhwaraj on Saturday May 7, resigned from the Congress party.
Madhwaraj tweeted his resignation letter.
The former Udupi MLA stated in the letter, "I have reached a point wherein it is becoming impossible for me to continue in the Congress party and to do justice to the new post that has been assigned to me recently. Hence, I have decided not to accept the post of vice president of KPCC and also to tender my resignation to the primary membership of Congress party.
"Since the last three years, the situation in Udupi district Congress party has been a bad experience for me this leading to political suffocation and the facts of which have been brought to your notice and informed to other party leaders by me. I have observed that no worthwhile steps have been taken by the party to redress my grievances regarding the prevailing situation in the Udupi district Congress party,” he stated in the letter.
It may be recalled, many state and central leaders of the party had tried to convince Madhwaraj to stay in the party and had assured him of giving a higher position. He was later given the post of vice-president of KPCC.
Madhwaraj had kept himself aloof from the party activities for a few years. There were rumours that he would join BJP.