New Delhi: The BJP may have shown the door to Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa after the controversial mining report, but Yeddyurappa has made it clear that he will leave on his own terms. The message to national leaders Rajnath Singh and Arun Jaitley was clear in the orchestrated scenes created by Yeddyurappa's supporters outside his house - the CM is still the king and he wants his man to take his position.
Yeddyurappa claimed the support of 73 MLAs and 15 MPs and wanted three-four days to decide. Rajnath and Jaitley got the message and postponed their decision on the new Karnataka chief minister.
Excise minister MP Renukacharya said, "Yeddy is our leader."
Inside the house, an Angry Yeddyurappa reluctantly met Jaitley and Rajnath and refused to step down without nominating a person of his choice for the post Chief Minister.
Yeddyurappa faction even went to the extent of asking them to reconsider BJP high command's decision of removing him from the chair. They also urged party bosses to trash the Lokayukta report on him.
With three of six names of successors - Udupi MP DV Sadananda Gowda, higher education minister VS Acharya and power minister Shobha Karandlaje - from here, BJP leaders and cadres are elated but are not willing to reveal their preference. "We will go by the party's decision," say workers.
Surprisingly, even a decision maker in this part of the state, RSS Dakshina Madhya Kshetra Sampark Pramukh Dr Kalladka Prabhakar Bhat, toes the same line. "I don't have any role in choosing anybody. I have sent a message that all are acceptable to us,'' he said.
Nagaraj Shetty, former chairman of Karavali Development Authority, says he will definitely be proud if a person from this region is elected chief minister. "It does not matter who. We will go by the decision of our leaders and elders,'' he told TOI from Singapore.
Individual party workers are plumping for Sadananda Gowda, and say he has a mind of his own. "Acharya will be a rubber stamp (probably in the hands of BS Yeddyurappa) and Shobha has a lot to learn,'' they say.
Special representative of Karnataka in New Delhi V Dhananjaya Kumar feels it is left to the discretion of the high command. Shobha is not acceptable to another faction, Acharya is considered weak, obliquely referring to the hot favourite.
Surprisingly, even a decision maker in this part of the state, RSS Dakshina Madhya Kshetra Sampark Pramukh Dr Kalladka Prabhakar Bhat, toes the same line. "I don't have any role in choosing anybody. I have sent a message that all are acceptable to us,'' he said.
Nagaraj Shetty, former chairman of Karavali Development Authority, says he will definitely be proud if a person from this region is elected chief minister. "It does not matter who. We will go by the decision of our leaders and elders,'' he told TOI from Singapore.
Individual party workers are plumping for Sadananda Gowda, and say he has a mind of his own. "Acharya will be a rubber stamp (probably in the hands of BS Yeddyurappa) and Shobha has a lot to learn,'' they say.
Special representative of Karnataka in New Delhi V Dhananjaya Kumar feels it is left to the discretion of the high command. Shobha is not acceptable to another faction, Acharya is considered weak, obliquely referring to the hot favourite.
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