The Bangalore Metro Reporter
THE LOW OF HIGH COMMAND
BJP HIGH COMMAND- NEITHER HIGH NOR COMMANDING….
The decline of High Command’s hold over the first ever BJP government in the South India started the moment Yedurappa became the Chief Minister in 2008. With three short of a simple majority, Yedurappa allegedly through money and muscle procured the support of six independents to become the CM. He then launched Operation Kamala to target the MLAs of Congress and JD(S) and purchased them. They were made to resign their seats and join BJP and made ministers or chairman of fertile Boards/Corporations and were also fielded as BJP candidates in the by-elections. About 20 by-election were held because of Operation Kamala.
Had the BJP High Command put its foot down firmly on this rotten ‘Operation Kamala’, things would have been different. If Yedurappa was asked to function with the simple majority, he would have ruled the state with caution. But the High command never imagined the future. So, once Yedurappa got more than 120 seats through elections and Operation Kamala, he was a changed man. He became a virtual dictator and the rest is history.
In 2009, the Reddy Brothers revolted against Yedurappa with about 45 MLAs in their camp. The High Command dithered and was not able to find a solution to the crisis. Finally, Sushma Swaraj, the Godmother of Reddy Brothers was roped in and a truce was affected after 15 days of uncertainty.
In 2010, another rebellion hit Yedurappa hard. Twenty MLAs including five independents withdrew their support to him and the resort politics reached a new low. However, Yedurappa too stooped to a new low and got 15 MLAs disqualified through Speaker Bopaiah just hours before the confidence vote was to take place. Further, he misused the machinery and allowed the police to enter the Assembly hall. In fact, the then police commissioner Shankar Bidari stood guard at the entrance door!
His family had by then succeeded to keep him under their octopus like grip and they floated firms, trusts etc. and started making crores and crores through his power abuse.
Then started Kumaraswamy’s tirade against Yedurappa. Kumaraswamy started exposing one scam after another with documentary evidences against Yedurappa his family and ministers. Yedurappa started counter attack on him and his family. Politics reached a new low with cases and counter cases filed against each other. Even then, the BJP High Command turned a Nelson’s eye to the developments perhaps fearing that Yedurappa might topple his own government in case he was asked to step down. Finally, the Lokayukta report on mining forced the High Command to ask him to resign and he was replaced by D.V.Sadananda Gowda who was his personal choice.
However, after the High Court quashed the FIR against Yedurappa in the mining scam, Yedurappa wanted Sadananda to resign to make way for him to become the CM again. But Sadananda stated that only at the High Command’s instruction, he will hand over the power to Yedurappa.
Since then Yedurappa has been making efforts to dethrone Sadananda and occupy the CM chair. He even tried to kill the Sadananda government during the budget session by taking away about 45 MLAs to a resort and boycotting the presentation of the budget. However, at the eleventh hour, he dropped the ‘revolt’.
The BJP High Command never lifted its fingers when Yedurappa was openly indulging in anti party activities. They kept assuring him of suitable position after the SC Order on the CBI probe into his scams which was expected in the first week of May and kept rejecting his demand of CM post. Finally, the Supreme Court ordered the CBI probe into donation and denotification scam of Yedurappa and his family and that sealed the chances of Yedurappa getting any suitable post let alone CM post.
Since then Yedurappa is restless. He called his loyal Ministers and obtained their resignation and later MLAs loyal to him were made to submit their resignations. Armed with this, Yedurappa challenged the Sadananda government and the High Command. He opened a parallel office. He has accused everybody in the BJP High Command including L.K.Advani and has targeted choicest abuses against Ananth Kumar, K.S.Eswarappa and Sadananda.
And the High Command is not even in a position to take action. If any other leader had uttered these abuses, the next moment, the leader would have been expelled. But the High Command is not taking or even contemplating action. The CBI raid was a setback to Yedurappa. True, the High Command wants Yedurappa to get out of the party on his own while Yedurappa wants the High Command to expel him so that he could gain some sympathy votes.
Whatsoever, the High command has lost much of its command and control vis-a-vis Yedurappa. And that is all.
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