BSY unlikely to be reinstated
Jolted by the Karnataka high court verdict giving former CM B.S. Yeddyurappa a clean chit in the illegal mining scam, the BJP top brass has begun efforts to placate him but is in no mood to give in to the demand that he should be made chief minister as soon as possible.
Party president Nitin Gadkari and BJP patriarch L.K. Advani have instead asked Yeddyurappa supporters to convince him to cooperate with chief minister Sadananda Gowda and work towards strengthening the party organisation for the 2013 Assembly polls. It remains to be seen if the former CM will be satisfied with this.
The message that BSY could give up his dream of becoming CM again was conveyed to Mr Sadananda Gowda, BJP state president K.S. Eshwarappa and BSY loyalists who arrived in Goa on Friday to attend the swearing-in ceremony of the Manohar Parrikar ministry. They were told firmly by Mr Gadkari and Mr Advani that there would be no change of guard in Karnataka.
The stance has come as a severe blow to BSY loyalists like ministers Umesh Katti, Basavaraj Bommai, Murugesh Nirani, Rajya Sabha MP Prabhakar Kore and Sanjay Patil, among others, who were in Goa to lobby for the former CM.
Sources said that Mr Gadkari, who spoke to the leaders, said the BJP Parliamentary Board is unwilling to replace incumbent CM Sadananda Gowda. To buttress their argument, the leaders cited the example of Uttarakhand where the BJP had to trail behind the Congress in the Assembly polls because of the scams involving its top leaders.
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