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Yeddyurappa to quit BJP, launch party Dec 10
Tuesday October 23, 2012 05:44:55 PM,
IANS
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Bangalore: Former
Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa Tuesday announced he
will quit the BJP and launch a regional party Dec 10, raising
questions over the survival of the state BJP government headed by
Jagadish Shettar.
"I will launch a regional party Dec 10. The same day I will quit
BJP and also resign as assembly member," he told reporters here
after 'Audhya pooja' at his office, which was formerly the BJP
office.
The former chief minister said preparations for the launch of the
new party will formally start Wednesday as it is 'Vijayadashami'
day.
He said the the new party would be launched in the presence of "lakhs
of supporters at a public meeting in Haveri, about 350 km north of
Bangalore.
"My decision to leave the BJP and launch a new party is firm. I
appeal to my supporters not to give any credence to reports that I
will change my decision and stay in the BJP," he said.
Yeddyurappa said he had not decided on when his supporters in the
Shettar ministry and legislators backing him should quit the BJP.
He claims the support of around 70 of the party's 120 legislators
in the 225-member assembly. Nearly half of the ministers in the
34-member Shettar cabinet are Yeddyurappa supporters.
The former chief minister is clearly wary of being held
responsible for bringing down the Shettar ministry as both he and
Shettar hail from the Lingayat community, which makes up for 17
percent of the state's 65 million population and is generally
believed to support the BJP.
With Yeddyurappa fixing the date of his party's launch, focus will
now be on how many ministers and party legislators will attend the
Dec 10 show of strength and whether BJP leadership will act
against them.
The BJP leadership has been wavering on acting against Yeddyurappa
though he has been ridiculing it for months.
With assembly election due in May next year, the party may choose
to ignore the act of ministers and legislators attending the
launch of a new party instead of risking the fall of Shettar
ministry.
That could entail President's rule till the assembly polls, which
the BJP would like to avoid as it has often accused Governor H.R.
Bhardwaj of acting as a "Congress agent".
The 69-year-old Yeddyurappa, largely credited for leading the BJP
to power for the first time in south India, says the BJP
leadership has "betrayed" him.
He resigned as chief minister in July last year over mining
bribery charges and faces a dozen corruption and illegal land
deals cases. He was succeeded by D.V. Sadananda Gowda in August
2011.
However, he has been asserting that BJP president Nitin Gadkari
did not keep the promise to make him state BJP president within 24
hours of quitting as chief minister.
Shettar succeeded Sadananda Gowda in July this year.
Yeddyurappa has also been holding BJP leader L.K. Advani
responsible for the mess.
Yeddyurappa and Shettar were known rivals. Shettar was not even
made a minister when Yeddyurappa formed the ministry in May 2008.
He had opposed Shettar when there were moves to make him the chief
minister after he (Yeddyurappa) quit.
But in less than a year, Yeddyurappa fell out with his successor
Gowda, brought him down and backed Shettar's claim to chief
ministership.
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