Mysore/Mysuru: Lending credibility to reports that the Congress was out to launch ‘Operation Hastha’ to poach opposition MLAs (BJP and JD-S), Chamundeshwari JD(S) MLA G.T. Devegowda (GTD) said it is true that Deputy Chief Minister and KPCC President D.K. Shivakumar had invited him to the Congress.
Speaking to Star of Mysore this morning, G.T. Devegowda said that Dy.CM D.K. Shivakumar, accompanied by Yeshwantpur BJP MLA S.T. Somashekar, Nelamangala and Pulakeshinagar Congress MLAs had come to his Bengaluru residence a couple of days ago upon learning that he (GTD) was in Bengaluru and invited him to join the Congress.
