Jayaprakash Hegde, two ex-BJP MLAs join Congress

Bengaluru, dhns:  Former Backward Classes Commission chairperson K Jayaprakash Hegde, former BJP MLAs M P Kumaraswamy and
B M Sukumar Shetty joined the Congress on Tuesday.

Hegde’s name is doing rounds for the Congress ticket for the Udupi-Chikmagalur Lok Sabha seat.

The leaders were inducted in the presence of Deputy Chief Minister and Karnataka Congress president D K Shivakumar, Ministers G Parameshwara, Madhu Bangarappa, Laxmi Hebbalkar, KPCC working president Saleem Ahmed, B N Chandrappa and others.