BJP will form Govt: Bangarappa

BANGALORE: Former Karnataka Chief Minister S Bangarappa on Thursday claimed that an anti-incumbency wave was rising against the ruling Congress and it would help the BJP come to power in the assembly polls in the state.
There was an "anti-congress wave" in rural areas, Bangarappa who recently joined BJP told reporters.
He said he had respect for Congress president Sonia Gandhi, but cannot accept her as the prime minister of the country.
Replying to a query, he said he was in agreement with his party president Venkaiah Naidu that a legislation was necessary to bar persons of foreign origin from holding top posts in the country.
Even as Bangarappa hailed the achievements of the NDA government led by prime Minister A B Vajpayee, in an abrupt development his actor turned politician son, Kumar Bangarappa who recently followed him to BJP, announced at Shimoga his plans to quit BJP.
Kumar Bangarappa dubbed BJP a "communal" party and disapproved his father''s action of joining it.
BJP denied ticket to Kumar Bangarappa and chose his younger brother Madhu Bangarappa to fight the Sorab assembly constituency, a bastion of Bangarappa''s family.