<p>Bengaluru: Tainted mining baron and the lone MLA from Karnataka Rajya Pragathi Paksha (KRPP), G Janardhana Reddy, on Monday rejoined the BJP in the presence of party veteran B S Yediyurappa and state BJP president B Y Vijayendra. </p>.<p>His wife Aruna Lakshmi also joined the saffron party. Reddy later told reporters that he doesn’t need any position to join the BJP as he is as elated as a child which is reunited with its mother. “I have merged my party with the BJP,” he said. </p>.<p>Reddy floated his own outfit, the KRPP, in 2022 and won from the Gangavathi constituency in Koppal district in last year’s elections.</p>.<p>Yediyurappa said the party had gained immense strength with Reddy’s return to the party, in the Kalyana Karnataka region, where Reddy wields considerable influence. </p>
<p>Bengaluru: Tainted mining baron and the lone MLA from Karnataka Rajya Pragathi Paksha (KRPP), G Janardhana Reddy, on Monday rejoined the BJP in the presence of party veteran B S Yediyurappa and state BJP president B Y Vijayendra. </p>.<p>His wife Aruna Lakshmi also joined the saffron party. Reddy later told reporters that he doesn’t need any position to join the BJP as he is as elated as a child which is reunited with its mother. “I have merged my party with the BJP,” he said. </p>.<p>Reddy floated his own outfit, the KRPP, in 2022 and won from the Gangavathi constituency in Koppal district in last year’s elections.</p>.<p>Yediyurappa said the party had gained immense strength with Reddy’s return to the party, in the Kalyana Karnataka region, where Reddy wields considerable influence. </p>