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Bangalore: The crisis in the Karnataka's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party unit, triggered by Friday's resignation of
nine ministers seeking removal of Chief Minister D.V. Sadananda
Gowda, continued Saturday, though a party emissary was hopeful of
early solution.
"We are inching towards early solution to the crisis," BJP general
secretary and state in charge Dharmendra Pradhan, who was sent by
party central leadership to Bangalore Saturday, told reporters
here after day-long talks with various factions in the state unit.
Pradhan is returning to New Delhi Sunday to brief the party's
central leaders on his efforts.
He did not indicate when the central leaders would consider a
solution to the crisis.
However, Karnataka Medical Education Minister S. A. Ramdas said
the party's parliamentary board would meet in Delhi in the next
two or three days for a final decision to end the problem.
Pradhan said he had met "all important leaders of Karnataka
Bharatiya Janata Party. Everything will be settled within the
party".
He first met eight of the nine ministers who have submitted their
resignations and followed it up with talks with the chief minister
and his supporters.
The nine ministers are loyalists of scam-hit former chief minister
B.S. Yeddyurappa, whom Pradhan met late Saturday.
Water Resources Minister Basavaraj Bommai, one of the nine
ministers to resign, exuded confidence after meeting Pradhan that
their demand to remove Gowda and make Rural Development Minister
Jagadish Shettar the chief minister will be accepted.
"We are confident that we have been able to convince Pradhan of
our stand. We hope for early solution," Bommai said. Shettar has
also submitted his resignation.
While the chief minister did not meet the press after his talks
with Pradhan, Municipal Administration Minister Balachandra
Jarakiholi, a loyalist of Gowda, too said they were hopeful of an
early solution.
With BJP president Nitin Gadkari busy with organising his son's
wedding reception in Delhi July 2, the party central leaders might
give time to resolve the Karnataka crisis the next day.
Besides Shettar and Bommai, other ministers who have submitted the
resignations are C.M. Udasi (public works), Murugesh Nirani
(industries), V.Somanna (housing), Umesh Katti (agriculture), Revu
Naik Belamagi (libraries and animal husbandry), M.P. Renukacharya
(excise) and Raju Gowda (small scale industries).
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