Mysuru: Former MP and Congress leader C.H. Vijayashankar, who had unsuccessfully contested on a Congress ticket from Mysuru-Kodagu Constituency in the Lok Sabha polls held in April this year, will rejoin the BJP at the party headquarters in Malleshwaram, Bengaluru, tomorrow at 3 pm.
Vijayashankar was with the BJP since the 1990s and had represented the Mysuru Lok Sabha Constituency twice. After being elected as an MLC, he served as the Forest Minister for about six months in the B.S. Yediyurappa Government in 2010-11. Vijayashankar, who got upset with the BJP after he was denied the ticket to contest from Mysuru-Kodagu Lok Sabha Constituency (the ticket went to Pratap Simha, the current MP), left the BJP to join the Congress ahead of last year’s Assembly polls. Now he is returning to the BJP after a gap of nearly twenty months.
