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Karnataka BJP crisis heads for flashpoint
Sunday March 11, 2012 05:43:24 PM,
IANS
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Hubli
(Karnataka): The leadership battle in Karnataka's
ruling Bharatiya Janata Party is heading towards boiling point
with former chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa stating only time will
tell whether he stays in the party.
"Only time will tell. I cannot speak about the future," he told
reporters Sunday in this town, about 400 km north of Bangalore,
when asked whether he will be in the party at the time of assembly
polls due April-May next year.
Yeddyurappa, forced to quit July last year over corruption charges
but seeking re-instatement, also announced that he will not
campaign for the party candidate in the March 18 bypoll to
Udupi-Chikmagalur Lok Sabha seat.
He virtually blamed his successor D. V. Sadananda Gowda for the
decision.
The Udupi-Chikmagalur seat was held by Gowda who resigned after
taking over from Yeddyurappa Aug 4.
"Gowda says that I am facing eight more corruption cases. Hence if
I go for campaigning it may embarrass him," Yeddyurappa commented
sarcastically.
The former chief minister was in Hubli to address a public meeting
organized by his supporters to as a show of strength in the name
of celebrating his 70th birthday, which was Feb 27.
Yeddyurappa and his supporters have been relentlessly mounting
pressure on party central leaders to reinstate him and their
demand has become strident after the high court March 7 quashed
the mining bribery case against him.
He had challenged in the high court the July 27 report of the then
Lokayukta (ombudsman) N. Santosh Hegde recommending his trial on
the ground that his kin had taken Rs.30 crore from a mining
company.
A reluctant Yeddyurappa was forced by party central leaders to
quit July 31. Since then he has been claiming that the party
leaders had promised to re-instate him within six months or
earlier if he was cleared of charges leveled in the Lokayukta
report.
The former chief minister ruled out accepting the post of the
state BJP president.
Though the high court has set aside the mining bribery case,
Yeddyurappa is fighting several other cases of corruption and
illegal land deals.
He is also faces possible probe by the Central Bureau of
Investigation (CBI) into bribery charges over granting mining
licenses. The Supreme Court is to decide on this on a petition by
an NGO seeking CBI probe into its charges.
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