Bangalore :Former Minister and BJP MP representing Chamarajanagar Lok Sabha constituency in Karnataka V. Srinivas Prasad stated on August 6 that he would avoid electoral politics in future.
Talking to reporters forward of the launch of a ebook he has authored on his 47-year-long political profession to mark his seventy fifth birthday, Mr. Prasad stated he’ll full the remaining three years of the tenure of the present Lok Sabha, however won’t return to the fray within the subsequent elections.
He’ll full 50 years in electoral politics when the time period of the present Lok Sabha ends in 2024. The veteran politician identified that he had contested 14 elections.
He had determined to retire from electoral politics after dropping the by-poll to Nanjangud Meeting constituency in 2017, however returned to the ballot fray within the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
After being dropped from the Siddaramaiah Cupboard in June 2016, Mr. Prasad joined the BJP and contested the by-poll to Nanjangud. On dropping the battle, he introduced his retirement from electoral politics. Nonetheless, he got here beneath stress to contest the next Lok Sabha polls from Chamarajanagar in 2019 as a BJP candidate, and received.
“I might have retired after my twelfth election had I been allowed to finish my time period because the Income Minister. I’ve analysed the explanations that compelled me to contest two extra elections within the ebook,” he stated.
The ebook has handled the challenges he confronted in his political profession. “Although George Bernard Shaw has described politics because the final resort of the scoundrel, I’ve proven how I see politics as a social dedication,” Mr. Prasad stated.
