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All’s not well in Karnataka BJP as MLAs seek to meet Nadda to complain against Yediyurappa

Nadda, who was in Bengaluru this week, refused to meet the delegation of MLAs who have been Yediyurappa loyalists.

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New Delhi: Trouble seems to be brewing within the Karnataka BJP with a section of disgruntled MLAs seeking a meeting with the party’s national president J.P. Nadda to “complain” about Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa, ThePrint has learnt.

Nadda, who arrived in Bengaluru Friday for the three-day Akhil Bharatiya Pratinidhi Sabha, had declined to meet the delegation of MLAs who have, in the past, been Yediyurappa ‘loyalists’, sources said.

One of their primary objections has been that Yediyurappa did not include them in the recent ministry expansion.

The chief minister “preferred” those who had resigned from the assembly as Congress or JDS members and helped bring down the coalition government earlier, these MLAs have alleged.

They also claimed there was “interference” from Yediyurappa’s family in the state government’s functioning.

At the party’s core committee meeting Thursday, several MLAs had cornered the chief minister and voiced their disappointment over his working style and his family’s alleged interference.

MLAs Basangouda Yatnal, Raju Gouda, Abhay Patil and Kalkapppa Bandi, said sources, were among those who told Yediyurappa they wanted “direct access to their leader” and felt humiliated when they are asked to meet his son, B.Y. Vijayendra, first.

“We have been insulted several times and as senior leaders, we cannot be treated in this manner,” said a senior party leader, who did not wish to be named.

Two unsigned letters

An unsigned letter, allegedly written by disgruntled BJP MLAs, circulating Thursday had accused Yediyurappa’s son B.Y. Vijayendra of being the “super CM” and taking over administrative responsibilities from his father.

“There is no difference from the Deve Gowda family,” the letter reads.

It also lists out names and phone numbers of those who have been allegedly placed by Vijayendra to monitor the functioning of the government.

Thursday’s letter surfaced less than a month after another one, allegedly written by some aggrieved BJP MLAs, had emerged, in which they criticised Yediyurappa and his son.

A party leader, on the condition of anonymity, said, “They are now saying that not only Vijayendra but his siblings also are interfering in administrative matters. Nothing moves without their knowledge.”

A BJP functionary similarly said there was a “lot of truth in the unsigned letter” that leaked this week and that it is another indication of how “all is not well” in the Yediyurappa government.

The functionary also said the chief minister had refused to pay heed to their “observations” time and again.

“The letter may be unsigned, but it does elaborate on a lot of issues which have been raised by a group of BJP legislators who are disgruntled and unhappy with the governance. There is a lot of truth in it. It may have been written by somebody who knows the family well,” said the BJP functionary.


Also read: How BJP has been outplaying Congress to form govt in states where it lacked majority


 

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