At least four cases pertaining to illegal mining registered by the Central Bureau of Investigation are pending against former Minister and mining baron G. Janardhana Reddy. Mr. Reddy, once an important leader of Bharatiya Janata Party in the Hyderabad Karnataka region, who played a key role in the party coming to power for the first time in 2008, was arrested …
BENGALURU: Former minister and Gangavathi MLA Gali Janardhana Reddy on Monday merged his Kalayan Rajya Pragati Paksha with BJP. Reddy rejoined BJP in the presence of former chief minister BS Yediyurappa, BJP state president BY Vijayendra, former Minister B Sriramulu and others. Reddy, a mining baron, was associated with former Union Minister, late Sushma Swaraj, who contested against Sonia Gandhi …
Former BJP leader and mining baron Gali Janardhana Reddy on December 25, 2022, launched Kalyana Rajya Pragathi Paksha, pledging that his new party would fight the 2023 Assembly elections. After his name came up in the Obulapuram mining scam, the saffron party distanced itself from him. A former State minister, Mr. Reddy is fighting a slew of cases filed against …
Bengaluru: Amid the buzz over Ballari mining baron Janardhana Reddy’s new political party poaching senior leaders from the Bharatiya Janata Party, Karnataka transport minister B Sriramulu said that no leaders from the BJP, especially Reddy’s brothers and MLAs Somashekhar Reddy and Karunakar Reddy, would join the new party. Karnataka transport minister B Sriramulu, who was a close confidant of Janardhana …