Putting an end to the uncertainty that lasted nearly a month, Speaker K.R. Ramesh Kumar on Monday accepted the resignation of Umesh Jadhav from the Legislative Assembly.
Mr. Jadhav gave up the MLA seat from Chincholi, won on Congress ticket, to join the Bharatiya Janata Party, which subsequently declared him its candidate for the Lok Sabha elections from Kalaburagi to take on veteran Congress leader M. Mallikarjun Kharge.
“Mr. Jadhav’s resignation has been accepted as per my own judicial conscience,” the Speaker stated in an order issued on Monday. “I am convinced that it [the resignation] was a decision taken by him on his own, without succumbing to any pressure or inducement.”