Rebels pin hopes on Pradhan’s visit

Jun 26, 2012 |

Bengaluru

Tags:

Supporters of former chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa were upbeat on the issue of change of leadership following a tip-off that the leader in-charge of party affairs in Karnataka, Dharmendra Pradhan, would arrive here shortly to gather the opinion of party workers on the contentious issue.

Sources in the party said Mr Dharmendra Pradhan and party national organizing secretary Satish would arrive in the city on June 28 to consult party leaders and workers on the issue, and to iron out differences among them. In fact, Mr. Satish has already held preliminary talks with state unit leaders regarding change of leadership last week.

The sources said with a majority of party MLAs demanding a meeting of the legislature party to discuss the leadership issues, senior central leaders had no option but to direct the Chief Minister to convene the meeting. The meeting, however, would be supervised by both Mr Pradhan and Mr Satish, sources added.

Sources in Mr Yeddyurappa’s camp claimed that the central leadership had assured that it would resolve the leadership issue in one week after consulting the leaders concerned. Irrigation and water resources minister Mr Basavaraj Bommai reportedly met party president Nitin Gadkari in Nagpur and put forth the demand on behalf of the former chief minister. On his return, Mr Bommai held a meeting with Mr Yeddyurappa, public works minister C.M. Udasi, excise minister M P Renukacharaya and other leaders at Jindal NatureCure Institute, where the former chief minister has been undergoing treatment.

Post new comment

<form action="/comment/reply/164943" accept-charset="UTF-8" method="post" id="comment-form"> <div><div class="form-item" id="edit-name-wrapper"> <label for="edit-name">Your name: <span class="form-required" title="This field is required.">*</span></label> <input type="text" maxlength="60" name="name" id="edit-name" size="30" value="Reader" class="form-text required" /> </div> <div class="form-item" id="edit-mail-wrapper"> <label for="edit-mail">E-Mail Address: <span class="form-required" title="This field is required.">*</span></label> <input type="text" maxlength="64" name="mail" id="edit-mail" size="30" value="" class="form-text required" /> <div class="description">The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.</div> </div> <div class="form-item" id="edit-comment-wrapper"> <label for="edit-comment">Comment: <span class="form-required" title="This field is required.">*</span></label> <textarea cols="60" rows="15" name="comment" id="edit-comment" class="form-textarea resizable required"></textarea> </div> <fieldset class=" collapsible collapsed"><legend>Input format</legend><div class="form-item" id="edit-format-1-wrapper"> <label class="option" for="edit-format-1"><input type="radio" id="edit-format-1" name="format" value="1" class="form-radio" /> Filtered HTML</label> <div class="description"><ul class="tips"><li>Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.</li><li>Allowed HTML tags: <a> <em> <strong> <cite> <code> <ul> <ol> <li> <dl> <dt> <dd></li><li>Lines and paragraphs break automatically.</li></ul></div> </div> <div class="form-item" id="edit-format-2-wrapper"> <label class="option" for="edit-format-2"><input type="radio" id="edit-format-2" name="format" value="2" checked="checked" class="form-radio" /> Full HTML</label> <div class="description"><ul class="tips"><li>Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.</li><li>Lines and paragraphs break automatically.</li></ul></div> </div> </fieldset> <input type="hidden" name="form_build_id" id="form-5d68e1135b67cdab8cba830cf343e398" value="form-5d68e1135b67cdab8cba830cf343e398" /> <input type="hidden" name="form_id" id="edit-comment-form" value="comment_form" /> <fieldset class="captcha"><legend>CAPTCHA</legend><div class="description">This question is for testing whether you are a human visitor and to prevent automated spam submissions.</div><input type="hidden" name="captcha_sid" id="edit-captcha-sid" value="84044801" /> <input type="hidden" name="captcha_response" id="edit-captcha-response" value="NLPCaptcha" /> <div class="form-item"> <div id="nlpcaptcha_ajax_api_container"><script type="text/javascript"> var NLPOptions = {key:'c4823cf77a2526b0fba265e2af75c1b5'};</script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://call.nlpcaptcha.in/js/captcha.js" ></script></div> </div> </fieldset> <span class="btn-left"><span class="btn-right"><input type="submit" name="op" id="edit-submit" value="Save" class="form-submit" /></span></span> </div></form>