Congress in contact with BJP MLAs, says ex-CM Yediyurappa

Veteran BJP chief BS Yediyurappa on Sunday cautioned his occasion leaders to not take the Congress frivolously, warning them concerning the constant efforts by the Opposition occasion to woo among the BJP MLAs.

The 78-year previous chief’s remarks echoed issues throughout the occasion that a few of these MLAs who abandoned the Congress could ditch the BJP and return forward of the meeting polls. These issues have heightened within the BJP after the occasion witnessed a spate of resignations in its West Bengal unit by leaders who’ve returned to TMC.

The former chief minister, talking on the BJP state government assembly at Davanagere, stated he has credible data that Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) president DK Shivakumar had been in contact with some occasion MLAs.

Yediyurappa’s remarks within the presence of BJP nationwide basic secretary Arun Singh mirrored the nervousness throughout the occasion as its two-year previous authorities is a product of 17 MLAs who joined the occasion after quitting the Congress and JD(S). That a few of Bommai’s cupboard colleagues have been sworn loyalists of Opposition chief Siddaramaiah is well-known.

Yediyurappa stated a couple of extra elections are due earlier than the meeting elections which might be due in lower than two years, and Congress has been on the prowl, working by itself set of electoral methods. The BJP, he added, must work tougher to win no less than 140 seats (out of 224 seats).

Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi repeated Home Minister Amit Shah’s assertion that the BJP in Karnataka will face the meeting polls underneath Bommai’s management. He, nonetheless, added that there are not any restrictions on Yediyurappa to strengthen the occasion cadre.

Joshi’s feedback in response to reviews that the BJP has been sad about Yediyurappa’s proposed tour of Karnataka on the pretext of rebuilding the occasion base.

Party leaders have been involved that the previous CM may embarrass the occasion together with his utterances if allowed to undertake a tour on his personal.

Sources within the BJP stated the occasion would possibly broaden Yediyurappa’s marketing campaign plans by giving it a construction, a objective and including some extra leaders like former CM Jagadish Shettar to the group with particular duties.

Yediyurappa stepped down as chief minister on July 26 after a two yr stint, and is alleged to be sulking ever since. The occasion has not assigned him any organisational duties both.

The former CM has all the time projected his son BY Vijayendra as his political inheritor, and sources within the BJP imagine the veteran Lingayat chief wouldn’t do something in haste that might spoil his son’s political profession within the BJP.