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With 118 BJP MLAs sharing stage Yeddyurappa
launches party
Sunday December 09, 2012 05:21:37 PM,
IANS
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Haveri
(Karnataka): Former Karnataka chief minister B.S.
Yeddyurappa Sunday launched his own party and virtually reduced
the Jagadish Shettar ministry to a minority as over a dozen of the
BJP's 118 assembly members shared the dais with him at the event
here.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has threatened to act against
party legislators who attend the launch function of the rebel
Karnataka Janata Party (KJP), or even attend the breakfast meeting
or tea parties hosted by Yeddyurappa loyalists at Haveri.
If the BJP actually carries out the threat, then the Shettar
government will have to go as it will not have the majority in the
225-member assembly, that includes one nominated member.
"I just got information that action will be taken against the 14
to 18 legislators on the dais. In that case, I tell Shettar that
you do not have majority and hence quit immediately," Yeddyurappa
thundered to the applause of a huge crowd at the KJP launch rally
in this north Karnataka town, about 350 km from Bangalore.
Apparently angry that the BJP was contemplating action against his
supporters in the party, a charged Yeddyurappa said: "I tell
Shettar, if you have guts, dissolve the assembly and let us go to
the people."
Earlier, ministers C.M. Udasi (public works), Shobha Karandlaje
(power), Basavaraj Bommai (water resources), Murugesh Nirani
(industries), M.P. Renukacharya (excise) and Revu Naik Belamagi
(animal husbandry) attended a breakfast meeting hosted by
Yeddyurappa loyalists ahead of a public function here to formally
launch the KJP.
Yeddyurappa was present at the breakfast.
Asked about reports that Karandlaje, Bommai and Nirani had offered
to quit the ministry, Yeddyurappa told reporters after the
breakfast meeting that he has asked all ministers supporting him
not to resign.
The 69-year-old leader quit the BJP and the assembly Nov 30 to
form and lead the KJP as he was upset at not being made the state
BJP chief soon after he quit as chief minister July last over
mining bribery charges.
Yeddyurappa took over as the KJP president at the rally.
The KJP will contest all the 224 assembly seats in the polls, due
May next, he said.
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