The Bangalore Metro Reporter
THE CLASH OF THE TITANS!
SADANANDA TAKES YEDURAPPA HEAD ON, BJP’S INFIGHTING HITS NEW LOW
The ever smiling D.V.Sadananda Gowda who stepped down as CM smiling, is an angry man now a days. After keeping low profile for few days, he has started paying back B.S.Yeddyurappa in the same coin. Sadananda is now directly attacking Yedurappa and accusing him of many things. He had even challenged Yedurappa to finish him off politically. The other day, he accused Yedurappa and his cohorts of making efforts to fix him in one or the other cases in the Lokayukta Court. Sadananda has thrashed many claims of Yedurappa about him swearing to hand over the CM Post within six months etc. As on now, the feud between Sadananda and Yedurappa is getting uglier by every passing day...
Sadananda Gowda became the CM of Karnataka after Yedurappa was forced to resign over mining scandal. Thereafter, Sadananda, asserted his authority as the CM and provided a sort of good governance much to the chagrin of Yedurappa.
Yedurappa and his group allegedly started fingering Sadananda and simply refused to treat him as the CM. Allegedly, another main reason was that Sadananda, who was asked by the RSS and BJP High Command to provide a clean government had refused to clear ‘big deals’ of Yedurappa and his loyal ministers. Frustrated thus, Yedurappa made many a tantrums to force the High Command to remove him as the CM. Reeling under Yedurappa’s blackmail, the BJP High Command asked Sadananda to step down and he obliged.
Sadananda whose smiling face is his trade mark is not a light weight politician. He has worked as the Deputy leader of the opposition, MP and State BJP President for four years. It was during his tenure as State BJP President, the BJP and Yedurappa tasted their first political power under a coalition government with JD(S) and later came to power on its own in 2008. This is not a mean achievement for Sadananda as State BJP President. But he never took credit and attributed it to thousands of party workers, unlike Yedurappa who is boasting that he has built the party in the state and he alone had brought the party to power!
After stepping down from the CM post, Sadananda has kept a low profile except pressurising the BJP high command for an equitable share in the power for his group of loyal ministers and legislators. High command has also indicated State BJP President Post for Sadananda as K.S.Eswarappa is made Deputy CM now. This has caused heart burns to Yedurappa who badly wants the post for himself. Sadananda retaliated by demanding heavy and powerful portfolios for his loyalists, which were held by Yedurappa loyalists. And Yedurappa is resisting the demand very hard. Yedurappa who was smiling within for having toppled Sadananda and installing his recently converted loyalist Jagadish Shettar as the CM had not thought of Sadananda fighting back. But, Sadananda is hitting him hard. He is not prepared to allow Yedurappa to become the state BJP President and is hitting back at Yedurappa for all his misdeeds, and posing himself as the only leader who built the party in the state and all alone brought it to power. Yedurappa often charged Sadananda of following HD Deve Gowda and HD Kumaraswamy to sideline him. But, Sadananda has openly challenged him to prove one such instance and he will retire from politics.
Sadananda is harmless to BJP and will obey the high command without any question. He also stated that he desires no posts as the BJP had given him everything in life. He was made a MLA, MP, State BJP President and CM. This was a direct attack on Yedurappa who claims that he is everything in BJP and refused to resign from the CM post when asked by the High Command.
Sadananda took strong exception to Yedurappa’s tirade against his own BJP government in the budget session. Yedurappa, had condemned the government for inactions in handling the drought. He demanded waiving of all agriculture loans and the CM Jagadish Shettar subsequently announced waiving of farmers’ loan up to 25,000 which costed the state about 3000 crores. And to raise these 3000 crores, Jagadish Shettar hiked the VAT by 0.5% from August! This is just like ‘Robbing Peter to pay Paul’.
Sadananda in this case took Yedurappa head on. He maintained that if he was the CM, he would not have waived the loan at the behest of Yedurappa as it involves discussions, consultations and deliberation with the officials about ways and means to mobilise such huge money. The action of Jagadish Shettar in responding immediately to Yedurappa’s ‘loan waiver’ demand has shown him in poor light. Jagadish Shettar has thus belittled the sanctity of budget itself where every rupee is accounted for. Moreover it is not Yedurappa’s or Jagadish Shettar’s money, it is the tax payers’ money.
Further, the political assessment of L.K.Advani about the possibility of a non UPA, non NDA PM at the centre after the 2014 polls has also become the boiling point between Yedurappa and Sadananda. Sadananda supports the assessment, whereas, Yedurappa is furious because Advani has also touched the Karnataka BJP affairs. He has written a stinging letter to Advani demanding reconsideration of his assessment and challenged him to visit Karnataka to see for himself Yedurappa’s popularity. The BJP leaders are shocked at Yedurappa’s audacity to write such arrogant letter to Advani, the tallest leader of BJP.
Sadananda is now openly making allegations about Yedurappa and his corruption studded rule of 3 years three months. He has stated that he was only proposed by Yedurappa, but, the BJP MLAs elected him as their leader and the High Command made him the CM.
Sadananda has charged Yedurappa of making efforts through his henchmen to collect property documents related to Sadananda, his wife and other family members. The intention was to file a case against him in the Lokayukta Court, through set up persons to claim that Sadananda too is facing criminal charges and as such he should not be made the state BJP President!
Yedurappa has argued that Sadananda has betrayed him by not handing over the CM post to him as agreed. He also talked of the vow Sadananda had taken in this regard before the Gods. Sadananda simply rubbishes this charge and says that he had assured Yedurappa of handing over the CM post within six months if Yedurappa is cleared of the charges by the courts!
The open war of words between Yedurappa and Sadananda has taken everybody by surprise. Yedurappa is making every effort to become the CM again, but, the CBI probe, the cases in the Lokayukta Court etc. have forced him to clamor for real power. He has criticised everybody from the state BJP President to the BJP National President and now has shown the audacity to take on L.K.Advani also. And Sadananda is paying him in the same coin. Tit for tat.
That is all!
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