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Former Karnataka Chief Minister Jagdish Shettar, who had quit the BJP to join the Congress ahead of the state assembly polls last year, rejoined his old party on Thursday.
Shettar, who belongs to the politically influential Lingayat community, had ditched the BJP in April last year when he was denied a ticket. He subsequently joined the Congress, who promptly handed him a ticket to contest from the Hubli-Dharwad Central assembly constituency, a seat he represented when he was in the BJP. However, he lost to BJP's Mahesh Tenginakai by a huge margin.
