Infighting in Karnataka BJP escalates
Thursday December 29, 2011 09:02:43 PM,
IANS
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Bangalore: Factional
feuding in Karnataka's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party escalated
Thursday with indications that it will only worsen in the coming
days unless the party central leadership intervenes to settle the
leadership issue.
B.S. Yeddyurappa, who was forced out as the chief minister over
corruption charges in July, Thursday launched blistering attack on
state unit chief K.S. Eshwarappa.
Yeddyurappa, who has been lobbying with central leaders to make
him the chief minister again or declare him the sole leader of the
state unit, virtually set a Jan 15 deadline for them to accept his
demand.
The central leaders have earlier rejected his demand, telling him
that he can become the chief minister again only after he is
cleared of corruption charges. They have been advocating the state
unit be run under collective leadership.
Eshwarappa has been repeating this stand of the central leaders.
He and Chief Minister D.V. Sadananda Gowda Wednesday met BJP chief
Nitin Gadkari and senior leaders L.K. Advani, Rajnath Singh, Arun
Jaitley and Sushma Swaraj to plead with them to take a public
stand on the leadership tussle as it was further damaging the
party's image in the state.
However, no public statement came from the central leaders but
Eshwarappa reiterated the stand about collective leadership and no
reinstatement of Yeddyurappa till he is cleared of charges.
"Eshwarappa has been making statements as if I am guilty. He is
responsible for me losing the chief minister's post. He wants me
out of the party as well," Yeddyurappa told reporters here.
"I will take a decision after Jan 15," he said but declined to
elaborate.
Eshwarappa, who was in his hometown Shimoga, about 280 km north of
Bangalore, declined to react to Yeddyurappa's attack on him.
Incidentally, Shimoga is also the political base of Yeddyurappa.
He represents Shikaripura in the district in the assembly while
his son B.Y. Raghavendra is the BJP Lok Sabha member from Shimoga.
Chief Minister Gowda said central leaders had advised the state
unit to desist from indulging in public debate on leadership and
other issues.
"All of us will have to go by the decision of the central
leadership," he told reporters in Bellary, about 300 km north of
Bangalore.
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