K’taka Crisis: BSY Secures 17 Quit Letters

May 13, 2012 |

Age Correspondent

Bengaluru

A day after the Supreme Court halted his comeback plans by ordering a CBI probe, embattled former Kar-nataka chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa pus-hed the 10-month-old government of chief minister D.V. Sadan-anda Gowda to the brink by securing the resignations of his supporters — seven ministers and 10 legislators — on Saturday.
The ministers — Um-esh Katti, C.M. Udasi, Basavaraj Bommai, Murugesh Nirani, Shobha Karandlaje, V. Somanna and M.P. Renukacharya — submitted their resignations on Saturday, while two others, Revu Naik Belamagi and Raju Gowda, are expected to follow suit on Monday. The names of the legislators who handed in their letters to the former CM were, however, not disclosed by his camp.
Chief minister Gow-da, however, was decidedly cool about the crisis. In Mangalore, he said he would react only after the letters reached him. Earlier, he maintained that he would not convene a meeting of the legislature party, as demanded by Mr Yeddyurap-pa’s supporters, on the directions of party pre-sident Nitin Gadkari.
Late Saturday night, Mr Gowda’s supporters launched a counter move with municipal administration minister Balachandra Jarkiholi claiming the support of about 60 legislators for the CM.

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