Janardhana Reddy

Mining baron and lone MLA of Karnataka Rajya Pragathi Paksha (KRPP) G Janardhana Reddy on Sunday said he would rejoin BJP on March 25. The KRPP founder said he took the decision to make Narendra Modi the Prime Minister again for the third time. "After consulting my supporters, I took the decision. Tomorrow at 10 am I am rejoining BJP," he told reporters here. Reddy said he would support the BJP candidate from Ballari Lok Sabha constituency, B Sriramulu, whom he called a boy raised by him. Sriramulu, a former minister, lost the assembly election from Ballari assembly segment in 2023. Reddy was a minister in the BJP government headed by B S Yediyurappa and was jailed in the mining scam. He had distanced himself from the BJP and founded the KRPP. In the 2023 assembly election, he was instrumental in the defeat of his two brothers, G Karunakara Reddy and G Somashekara Reddy, who were BJP candidates from Harapanahalli and Ballari City respectively. Reddy fielded his wife Aruna Laksh

Reddy, a former BJP minister from Karnataka, has denied involvement in the case

In his video message, he said he was not absconding and was very much in the city

The suicide note claims that KAS office asked Reddy to help him get a ticket to contest the 2018 Karnataka elections

In 2011, Reddy had been arrested on charges of illegally mining iron ore and had been in prison for over three years

From cards to venue, everything is larger than life at this extravagant wedding

Sources said some 50,000 people, including politicians and celebrities, have been invited for the wedding