Jailed Reddy wants to contest K’taka polls
4 Dec 2012 4:57 AM IST
Jailed mining baron and former Karnataka minister G. Janardhana Reddy will contest Karnataka assembly polls due May next, his brother and ruling BJP legislator G. Somashekara Reddy said Saturday.
‘Janardhana Reddy will contest the coming assembly polls as candidate of Badavara, Shramikara, Raithara (Poor people, workers and farmers) Congress (BSR Congress),’ Somashekara told reporters in this town, about 300 km north of Bangalore.
The BSR Congress was founded by Reddy loyalist and former state minister B.Sriramulu in June this year year after quitting the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Janardhana Reddy, his brother K. Karunakara Reddy and Sriramulu were ministers in the government headed by B.S. Yeddyurappa. They lost the ministership after Yeddyurappa was forced to quit July last year over mining bribery charges.
Reddy has been in prison, mostly in Hyderabad’s Chanchalaguda jail and for some time in Bangalore central jail, since 5 Sep last year when he was arrested by CBI in connection with illegal mining in Andhra Pradesh.
He is facing charges of illegal mining in Karnataka also. Though Somashekara Reddy is a BJP legislator from Bellary, he has identified with BSR Congress. The party has not taken any action against him so far.
He said the constituency from which his brother will contest has not been decided yet.
‘Janardhana Reddy will contest the coming assembly polls as candidate of Badavara, Shramikara, Raithara (Poor people, workers and farmers) Congress (BSR Congress),’ Somashekara told reporters in this town, about 300 km north of Bangalore.
The BSR Congress was founded by Reddy loyalist and former state minister B.Sriramulu in June this year year after quitting the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Janardhana Reddy, his brother K. Karunakara Reddy and Sriramulu were ministers in the government headed by B.S. Yeddyurappa. They lost the ministership after Yeddyurappa was forced to quit July last year over mining bribery charges.
Reddy has been in prison, mostly in Hyderabad’s Chanchalaguda jail and for some time in Bangalore central jail, since 5 Sep last year when he was arrested by CBI in connection with illegal mining in Andhra Pradesh.
He is facing charges of illegal mining in Karnataka also. Though Somashekara Reddy is a BJP legislator from Bellary, he has identified with BSR Congress. The party has not taken any action against him so far.
He said the constituency from which his brother will contest has not been decided yet.
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