Laxman Savadi denies plans of quitting the Congress

Belagavi Congress MLA denies plans to join BJP, emphasizes non-political nature of cooperative institutions.

Congress MLA Laxman Savadi has denied that he is planning to quit the Congress to join the BJP.

The former Deputy Chief Minister was speaking to reporters before a meeting of the District Central Cooperative Bank (DCCB) in Belagavi on Monday.

He had arrived for the meeting in the same car as BJP MP Anna Saheb Jolle and the former MLA Mahantesh Dodagoudar.

Earlier, the three leaders had lunch at Mr. Savadi’s house in Sadashiv Nagar in Belagavi.

He said that the DCCB is a non-political institution and that there is nothing wrong in leaders of different parties working together in cooperative institutions.

Mr. Savadi said that there are no plans of him changing parties. To a query about a BJP senior leader having formed a team of leaders to bring back Mr. Savadi to the BJP, he said that he has no idea about any such development.

Asked about B.S. Yediyurappa’s statement that he will react to the development after getting to know what is in Mr. Savadi’s mind, he clarified that “only I know and God knows what is in my mind.”