Addressing reporters, he said B Sriramulu resigned as MLA from Bellary rural constituency for his personal reasons. No elected representative, including Sriramulu, should be given such a right to seek people’s mandate whenever she/he wants, he stated, adding that he would raise the issue in parliament.

The JD(S) has vanished in the State. The party chief recently staged a hunger protest near M G statue in order to prove that the JD(S) still exists, he added.