<p>Two days after joining the BJP, Sampangiramnagar councillor R Vasanthkumar returned to the Congress on Thursday. </p>.<p>The councillor was welcomed into the BJP at Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa’s residence on Tuesday. </p>.<p>“Some BJP leaders took me with them on the pretext of drinking tea. Suddenly, they took me to Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa and announced that I had joined the BJP,” Vasanthkumar<br />told a news conference, flanked by Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee<br />(KPCC) president Dinesh Gundu Rao. </p>.<p>“I didn’t know what to do at that point. I felt bad that I had been cheated this way. That’s why I returned to my party,” he said. </p>.<p>Vasanthkumar’s entry into the BJP was seen as a setback to the Congress ahead of the bypolls in the Shivajinagar constituency. The Congress has already expelled two of its councillors from the segment - M K Gunashekhar and Netravati Krishnegowda - for ‘anti-party’ activity. </p>.<p>“Vasanthkumar was forcibly taken by BJP leaders,” Rao charged. “It is sad that Yediyurappa, S R Vishwanath (CM’s political secretary) and their rowdies continue their unprincipled politics,” he added.</p>
<p>Two days after joining the BJP, Sampangiramnagar councillor R Vasanthkumar returned to the Congress on Thursday. </p>.<p>The councillor was welcomed into the BJP at Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa’s residence on Tuesday. </p>.<p>“Some BJP leaders took me with them on the pretext of drinking tea. Suddenly, they took me to Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa and announced that I had joined the BJP,” Vasanthkumar<br />told a news conference, flanked by Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee<br />(KPCC) president Dinesh Gundu Rao. </p>.<p>“I didn’t know what to do at that point. I felt bad that I had been cheated this way. That’s why I returned to my party,” he said. </p>.<p>Vasanthkumar’s entry into the BJP was seen as a setback to the Congress ahead of the bypolls in the Shivajinagar constituency. The Congress has already expelled two of its councillors from the segment - M K Gunashekhar and Netravati Krishnegowda - for ‘anti-party’ activity. </p>.<p>“Vasanthkumar was forcibly taken by BJP leaders,” Rao charged. “It is sad that Yediyurappa, S R Vishwanath (CM’s political secretary) and their rowdies continue their unprincipled politics,” he added.</p>
