Ballari: BJP MLA from Kudligi Constituency in Vijayanagar District, N. Y. Gopalakrishna has resigned from his post.
Gopalakrishna went to the residence of Assembly Speaker Vishweshwara Hegde Kageri in Sirsi and submitted his resignation letter to Kageri.
Earlier, he was a four-time MLA from Molakalmuru Constituency and one-time MLA from Ballari Rural Constituency and had joined the BJP after the Congress did not give him a ticket in the last elections.
Sources said that he resigned from the BJP this time saying that he would not be given a ticket due to his age and asked for a Congress ticket to contest again from Molakalmuru Constituency.