Former Karnataka Minister and Congress leader Pramod Madhwaraj tendered his resignation from the party on Saturday, May 7.
“Due to the circumstances, I have reached a point wherein it’s becoming impossible for me to continue in the Congress party and to do justice to the new post that has been assigned to me recently.
“I regret to inform you that since the last three years the situation in the Udupi district Congress party has been a bad experience for me thus leading to political suffocation and the facts of which have been brought to your kind notice and informed to other party leaders by me.
He was first elected as MLA of Udupi from the Congress in 2013 defeating B Sudhakar Shetty of the BJP.
He later lost to Raghupathi Bhat of the BJP, in the 2018 Assembly elections and unsuccessfully contested on a Janata Dal ticket in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.