Speculation on leadership change continues to haunt Yediyurappa
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Amid a string of key political conferences and a petition being signed by a bunch of BJP MLAs in opposition to Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa, hypothesis was once more rife on Tuesday of a potential leadership change within the State. The Chief Minister’s camp shot this down as “baseless” discuss, however intense lobbying to dislodge him appears to have been taken up with renewed power.
Home Minister Basavaraj Bommai and the Chief Minister’s son B.Y. Vijayendra met Union Home Minister Amit Shah in Delhi on Sunday. Mr. Bommai has denied that it was a political assembly, on condition that Mr. Vijayendra accompanied him. But this assembly was intently adopted by BJP State president Nalin Kumar Kateel and get together nationwide common secretary (organisation) B.L. Santhosh assembly the Chief Minister at his residence on Monday and Tuesday, respectively, fuelling additional hypothesis. Both conferences had been termed “courtesy visits”.
The camp inside the BJP lobbying laborious to dislodge the Chief Minister has argued with the excessive command that Mr. Yediyurappa had failed to effectively deal with the pandemic and never ready sufficient for the upcoming oxygen disaster, leading to individuals directing their anger in the direction of the Union authorities. A “campaign” on this regard started instantly after the Chamarajanagar tragedy, when C.T. Ravi, get together nationwide common secretary, mentioned the federal government was accountable. This was adopted by a livestreamed expose of an alleged scandal by get together MP Tejasvi Surya and three MLAs.
Land deal
What has additionally raised hackles inside the get together is the latest resolution to promote 3,667 acres of land to Jindal Steel Works (JSW) with none modification of the lease-cum-sale settlement — one thing the get together had opposed tooth and nail when H.D. Kumaraswamy was Chief Minister. Over 20 MLAs have signed a petition on the problem and submitted it to the excessive command, a number of sources within the get together confirmed. The effort was headlined by dissident legislator Basanagouda Patil Yatnal.
However, sources shut to the Chief Minister maintained that Mr. Bommai and Mr. Vijayendra had a “positive meeting” with Mr. Shah on Sunday and the matter of leadership change was not mentioned. “The meeting happened in light of the Karnataka High Court’s direction to the Centre to give 1,200 MTD oxygen to the State every day. The petition by BJP legislators opposing the JSW land sale also came up, and the duo explained the legal position that the lease-cum-sale agreement the Government of Karnataka had signed had to be honoured and the sale of land was fait accompli,” mentioned a strategist shut to Mr. Yediyurappa.
His camp additionally mentioned that particularly after the second wave of COVID-19 triggering public anger in opposition to all governments, no matter the get together in energy, the BJP was unlikely to dislodge Mr. Yediyurappa, who’s seen as a frontrunner with a join to the plenty.
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