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Shettar to contest from Belagavi: Ex-Karnataka CM Yediyurappa

Shettar to contest from Belagavi: Ex-Karnataka CM Yediyurappa

Bengaluru, March 15 (UNI) Amidst political landscape in Karnataka seems to be heating up, former Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa on Friday said Jagadish Shettar will contest from Belagavi in the upcoming Lok Sabha election in the state.
Yediyurappa claimed to have persuaded Shettar, a former chief minister of the state, who had recently return to the BJP from the Congress, to contest from this constituency.
Shettar had left the BJP after being denied a ticket for the Karnataka Assembly election in May 2023. He then joined the Congress party.

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