Bengaluru: Former Karnataka Minister and mining baron Gali Janardhana Reddy launched his own political part Kalyana Rajya Pragati Paksha (KRPP), on 25^th December 2022.

He cuts his relations with BJP in Karnataka. He was already been registered Kalyana Rajya Pragati Paksha (KRPP) with the Election Commission of India. He also said that he is going to contest from the Gangavathi assembly constituency in the 2023 assembly polls.

He will reveal the party’s symbol, the flag, who are all joining the party and also how many assembly constituencies the KRPP is going to contest in the select seats especially in the Kalyana Karnataka region.

Speaking with the media persons in a press conference on Sunday he clarified that he will not insist his close associate and transport minister B Sriramulu and even his brothers Karunakara Reddy and Somashekara Reddy to join his new party.

He targeted the Congress party as it led UPA had sent him to jail in illegal mining cases and felt hurt by the turn of events as his own party leaders left him in the lurch. Except for former chief ministers B S Yediyurappa and Jagadish Shettar no one visited my family members and consoled them when I went to jail, he remarked.

Four years were spent in jail during the UPA regime with charge sheet filed in five different cases, for alleged loss of Rs 1,200 Crore, in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. The CBI is still doing investigation, all of a sudden an application filed to send me out of Ballari and who is behind it. But I will come out clean in all cases by the grace of god, he said.

Janardhan Reddy claimed that he had done a good job by getting the six per cent additional tax on the miner owners, as the business flourished, through a government order when BS Yediyuarappa was the chief minister which all the courts had uplifted. Now Rs 25,000 crore has been collected, Rs 18,000 crores alone from Ballari district, which will be spent on the development of Ballari, Chitradurga and Tumakuru districts, he pointed out. He also claimed that he was shocked when Union Home Minister Amit Shah disowned him during the 2018 assembly polls.

He chronicled the BJP’s rise especially in Ballari region since the nineties, late Sushma Swaraj contesting the LS seat unsuccessfully against Sonia Gandhi in 1999, forming the first independent Government in the State in 2008 with B S Yediyurappa as the Chief Minister.

I had toiled hard keeping my business interests aside, let alone the rivals in the other parties our own party leader left in the lurch. I am a man with self dignity and my wife Laksmi Aruna and the people of Ballari triggered it to launch a political party and hence I am severing my ties with the BJP, he declared.