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Leadership tussle in Karnataka leaves CM embarrassed
Thursday June 28, 2012 06:46:06 PM,
IANS
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Bangalore: The tussle
in Karnataka's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) continued
Thursday as the central party leadership snubbed the beleaguered
Chief Minister D.V. Sadananda Gowda and a section of legislators
huddled together to devise ways to oust him.
The chief minister was left deeply embarrassed as the events
unfolded. Gowda planned to go to New Delhi to brief the BJP
leadership on the conspiracy to unseat him but was forced to
cancel the trip at the last minute, party sources said.
Gowda had advanced by four hours a press meet he had called for 4
p.m. to release a booklet on the achievements of the four-year
rule of the BJP. Gowda planned this in view of his decision to
rush to Delhi to meet party leaders in the wake of the renewed bid
by former chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa and his loyalists to
oust him.
Gowda hurriedly finished the press meet at the Vidhana Soudha, the
state secretariat in central Bangalore, to go to the airport, 35
km away. However, he was in for a rude shock as he got a message
from the central leaders that there was no need to rush to New
Delhi.
Apparently upset over the developments, he cancelled a dinner
scheduled for Thursday evening for the press corps to celebrate
the BJP government's achievements.
Though the BJP completed four years in power May 30, Gowda said he
could not release the booklet listing the achievements as code of
conduct was in force till the middle of this month in view of
elections to the legislative council.
As Gowda talked to the press, several ministers and BJP lawmakers
met at Yeddyurappa's residence here to devise ways to step up
pressure on the party central leaders to remove Gowda and make
Rural Development Minister Jagadish Shettar the chief minister.
The former chief minister and his supporters are expecting BJP
general secretary in-charge of Karnataka affairs Dharmendra
Pradhan to arrive here in a day or two for what they are
describing as the "final exercise for leadership change".
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