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BJP mulls replacing Karnataka chief minister to save government
Tuesday July 03, 2012 09:50:34 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi/Bangalore: The Bharatiya Janata Party Tuesday appeared inclined to replace
Karnataka Chief Minister D.V. Sadananda Gowda to save the
government in view of pressure by a faction led by his predecessor
B.S. Yeddyurappa.
BJP chief Nitin Gadkari and senior leaders including Arun Jaitley
Tuesday held talks with Gowda, Rural Development Minister Jagadish
Shettar, whom the Yeddyurappa faction wants to be the chief
minister, and state unit president K. S. Eshwarappa and their
supporters in New Delhi.
"Our central leaders had talks with all important Karnataka party
leaders. We are inching towards a solution. All issues will be
settled within the party forum," BJP general secretary in charge
of Karnataka affairs Dharmendra Pradhan told reporters in New
Delhi.
He did not indicate what the solution will be or when it will be
in place.
However BJP sources told IANS in Bangalore that most of the
central leaders were veering towards replacing Gowda with Shettar,
mainly because assembly elections are due May next and the
bickering cannot be allowed to persist.
They said though Gowda and his supporters have been resisting his
removal, the central leaders believe that the Gowda camp would not
create problems like the Yeddyurappa faction and would abide by
the decision.
The sources said the central leaders would decide when the change
would take place - before the presidential polls July 19 or later.
Eshwarappa told reporters in New Delhi ahead of the series of
meetings that it might take a week for the party central leaders
to resolve the crisis.
Gowda was a Lok Sabha member when he was hand-pickd by Yeddyurappa
to succeed him last July when the BJP's first chief minister in
south India was forced to quit over mining bribery charges.
Yeddyurappa had then opposed Shettar taking over from him as both
belong to the politically influential Lingayat community which,
making up 17 percent of the state's 65 million population, is
generally believed to be strong supporter of BJP.
Yeddyurappa, who claims that he had rallied round the Lingayats
behind the BJP, feared Shettar emerging as rival power centre in
the community.
However now he has fielded him as his effort to regain the chief
minister's post has been halted by the Central Bureau of
Investigation probe into mining bribery charges on the direction
of the Supreme Court.
In the 225-member assembly, the BJP has 120 members, the Congress
71, Janata Dal-Secular 26 and Independents seven. One is a
nominated member.
The Yeddyurappa faction claims it has the support of 70 the
party's 120 members.
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