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Why S M Krishna matters to Karnataka BJP

The BJP is viewing S M Krishna as the Karnataka's Himanta Biswa Sarma

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Aditi Phadnis
Foreign Minister in the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) regime and former Congress chief minister of Karnataka S M Krishna has joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
 
One member of the Karnataka BJP who was conspicuously absent from the committee to welcome him in the party was B S Yeddyurappa. He was said to be at a meeting elsewhere in the state on the afternoon party President Amit Shah welcomed Krishna in the BJP office in Bengaluru, although it was Yeddyurappa who first announced Krishna would be joining the BJP
 
It is hardly a secret that Krishna had been
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