Bengaluru, Jan 18: In a major blow to Janata Dal (Secular) ahead of looming Karnataka Legislative Assembly polls, two of its legislators on Thursday resigned as MLAs and expressed their wish to join Bharatiya Janata Party.
Lingasagur MLA Manappa Vajjal and Raichur City MLA Dr S Shivaraj Pati submitted their resignation letters to Legislative Assembly Secretary (in charge) S Murthy, as Speaker K B Koliwad was not present in his office.
Later, speaking to media persons, they said that JD(S) leadership had sidelined them for the last one year. "We were not taken into confidence on many occasions. The party refused to address our grouses. Hence we were forced to exit the party and join the BJP," they said.
Murthy said that he would forward the resignation letters to the Speaker.
"The letters have been addressed to the Speaker, but they have submitted the same to me. As per the rules, they are supposed to submit the letters to the Speaker directly. I have explained the rules to them, but they insisted that I should accept them. They said that they had met the Speaker last night, and that he had asked them to submit the letters to me," said Murthy.
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