Karnataka minister urges BJP workers to join Congress
After Karnataka Deputy CM G Parameshwara accused BJP of trying to topple the Congress-JD(S) government, Karnataka Minister DK Shivakumar said, "Our doors are always open to receive all those BJP leaders from Channapatna who have faith in the Congress' ideology." He further claimed some BJP leaders were upset with the top party leadership and had expressed their displeasure to him. 