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THE MYSTERIOUS YEDURAPPA!
YEDURAPPA HITTING BOTH SIDES OF THE DRUMS. WHAT DOES HE REALLY WANT?
Former CM B.S.Yeddyurappa is acting funny. He is blaming everybody from his own colleagues to the High Command to the opposition parties for his predicament, conveniently forgetting that he has himself to blame. Of late, he is claiming that he does not want CM post, and he does not want state BJP President Ship. At one point, he says that he will build the BJP and at the same time, he minces no words in stating that he will leave the party if his self respect is hurt. He wants Deputy CM KS Eshwarappa to resign from the post and concentrate on his state President post. Nobody can read and understand Yedurappa’s mind...
B.S.Yeddyurappa is acting funny these days. At one time he says, he does not want CM post, and he also does not want state BJP President Ship. At one point, he says that he will build the BJP and at the same time says that he will leave the party if his self respect is hurt. The BJP high command might has decided that Yedurappa is incorrigible and seems to have let him do anything except leaving the BJP, lest he may dent the BJP votes in the state.
Ever since he was forced to resign; he has become a leader of lingayath community from a mass leader. For the first six months, he expected to be reinstated as the CM. Then, he fought for the removal of D.V.Sadananda Gowda, his personal choice from the CM post. Finally he succeeded in removing him and installing his favourite Jagadish Shettar as the CM.
But, he is still not satisfied. He wants to become the state BJP President so that he can play a dominant and decisive role in ticket distribution to become the CM again after election. But here too, the High Command is not obliging.
Of course, Yedurappa is allegedly remote controlling Jagadish Shettar who is doing everything to please him. He wants the gaddi back as CM or at the worst, the state BJP President ship. In fact, there is a large chunk of leaders in State BJP who have ganged up against Yedurappa who are leaving no stone unturned to show him, his place. This has added fuel to the fire and fierce Yedurappa further.
In the past few weeks, Yedurappa is casting aspersions on everybody. He is touring the state along with few of his loyalist ministers and during these so called ‘drought study’ tour cum public meetings, Yedurappa is targeting everybody for the present mess he is in. He is accusing everybody from the BJP leaders in the state to the High Command including LK Advani.
It may be recalled that few months back, Yedurappa had accused the State BJP President KS Eswarappa of sending him to jail. He had also accused BJP National Security Anantha Kumar, the then CM Sadananda and K.S.Eswarappa of conspiracy to remove him from the CM post and subsequent imprisonment. Given the desperation of Yedurappa, Anantha Kumar simply refused to react to his charges and Eshwarappa termed it as a blessing from Yedurappa.
Now, Yedurappa is commenting that he was removed from the CM post by his own party leaders, more than the opposition leaders. He has blamed the High Command leaders including LK Advani for his becoming ex-CM. The other day, he crossed the limits and targeted everybody except himself for his present situation.
It may be recalled that the allocation of portfolios has become the biggest problem to Jagadish Shettar. When Jagadish Shettar became the CM, there was an understanding about portfolios distribution among the Yedurappa and Sadananda groups. As all the heavy portfolios are with Yedurappa loyalists, the other group wants an equal share. But the reluctance of the Yedurappa loyalist ministers to part with their ‘money spinner’ portfolios have become the raging controversy. Jarakiholi, the leader of the rebel group has time and again demanded that the portfolio reallocation should be done immediately.
Now Yedurappa has demanded that his loyal cronies Renukacharya and Raju Gowda be given heavy portfolios if there happens to be reallocation of portfolios. Even though the reallocation of portfolios had to be completed within a week of Jagadish Shettar becoming the CM, it is already three months and the matter is yet to be decided. The other day, Yedurappa publicly asked State BJP President and Deputy CM K.S.Eswarappa to resign from the Dy. CM post so that he could concentrate on the President’s post, which he says, is crucial for the elections. One may not wonder if Yedurappa demands resignation of another Dy. CM R.Ashoka also. One cannot say with certainty what the future demands of Yedurappa would be.
No doubt, Yedurappa has conveniently forgotten that he himself is solely responsible for his predicament today. Who asked him to indulge in unimaginable corruption so much that the state acquired No.1 position in corruption? Who asked him to allow his family and relatives to interfere with the administration and deals? Who asked him to dishonour Lokayukta court’s summons which ended in his going to jail? Who asked him to condemn and criticise the then CM Sadananda even though he was providing a scam free administration? Who asked him to challenge JD(S) Boss H.D.Kumaraswamy to swear before Lord Manjunath of Dharmasthala over the charges he had made against Yedurappa? Who asked him to refrain from swearing before Lord Manjunath, at the last moment, getting ridiculed in the process? Even now, devotees believe that it was Lord Manjunath who brought Yedurappa down.
As on now, Yedurappa is acting as if he is still the CM, but, the hard reality is that Jagadish Shettar is the CM and enjoys power, privileges and perks of a CM. Yedurappa cannot enjoy the same even though he is getting VIP treatment by the government as he is always accompanied by few ministers. But he cannot digest the hard truth. The entire blame for his pitiable position should be laid at himself and nobody else.
That is all.
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