Bengaluru: With just 12 days to go for the Legislative Council Polls (June 29), Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa is striving to get MLC ticket for four defector MLAs who quit their seats last year for bringing the BJP Government to power in the State.
Four MLAs --- A.H. Vishwanath, R.Shankar, Roshan Baig and MTB Nagaraj --- had quit their Assembly seats in July last in a bid to topple the previous JD(S)-Congress coalition Government. While Vishwanath belonged to the JD(S), MTB Nagaraj, R.Shankar and Roshan Baig belonged to the Congress. Yediyurappa, as the Opposition leader then, had purportedly promised them entry to the Legislative Council if they failed to win in the resultant Assembly by-polls.
