Missing Congress MLA Ramesh Jarkiholi arrives in Bengaluru

Bengaluru: Congress MLA Ramesh Jarkiholi, who had been missing for the last 10 days, arrived in Bengaluru on Tuesday night after his party recommended disqualification of four of its MLAs for not attending the ongoing Karnataka Assembly budget session.

Jarkiholi had also not attended the Congress Legislature Party meet ahead of the budget session.

On Monday, the Karnataka Congress had recommended disqualification of Jarkiholi and three other dissident party MLAs who did not attend the Assembly session and the CLP meet.

Besides Jarkiholi, the three other MLAs Umesh Jadhav, Mahesh Kumatalli and NB Nagendra were missing.

CLP leader Siddaramaiah and Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister G Parameshwar had met Karnataka Speaker Ramesh Kumar on Monday to submit the request for disqualification of the four MLAs from the state Assembly.