Former Chief Minister and BJP Parliamentary Board member B S Yediyurappa on Thursday slammed Opposition leader Siddaramaiah for demanding a ban on the Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangh (RSS) on the lines of the Popular Front of India (PFI).
There was a demand from Mysuru region for Vijayendra to contest elections. "However, as I am vacating the constituency, he will represent it in the upcoming assembly elections," he said earlier.
A rare gesture by a politician was seen on Sunday in Karnataka. BJP stalwart and former Karnataka CM B.S. Yediyurappa urged Chief Minister Basavaraja Bommai to reconsider his decision to name Shivamogga airport after his name.
The Congress in its legislature party meeting, held earlier in the day, decided to oppose the Bill tooth and nail.
Opposition leader Siddaramaiah and Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee President D.K. Shivakumar reached the Vidhana Soudha on bullock carts with their supporters to register their protest against the rising prices of fuel and daily commodities.
Yediyurappa has announced that after the Ganesh Chaturthi he would take up a tour of the state to strengthen the party keeping in mind the next assembly elections. The tour will begin from the constituencies in which BJP has suffered defeat, Yediyurappa had stated.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP chief J.P. Nadda, Union Ministers Amith Shah, Rajnath Singh, National Organising Secretary B.L. Santhosh, and Karnataka in-charge Arun Singh are expected to hold a party parliamentary board meeting to discuss the new leadership in Karnataka. It is said that the new CM will take an oath by Thursday.
According to sources in the party, the BJP appointed central observers for the Karnataka Legislative Party meeting to find out a successor of Yediyurappa.
Yediyurappa tweeted that his decision to step down was his own. Speaking after his visit to the Raj Bhawan, the Interim Chief Minister stated that he voluntarily took the decision to step down from the post to make way for a new CM in the state.
Yediyurappa's announcement finally brought the curtains down on week-long suspense surrounding his continuation as Karnataka chief minister.
