In a sign of the intensifying factionalism within the Karnataka state BJP unit, a number of leaders met with BJP parliamentary board member B S Yediyurappa at his residence on Sunday. The assembly was attended by members of the BJP state president B Y Vijayendra faction, who’re learnt to have pressed for motion in opposition to BJP MLA Basangouda Patil Yatnal for inflicting public embarrassment for the occasion unit.
This assembly was held earlier than the upcoming state core committee assembly, which is anticipated to happen within the subsequent few days. Though the assembly has been rescheduled twice—initially set for December 3 after which December 7—the ultimate date has not but been confirmed, in accordance with occasion sources. In the course of the discussions at Yediyurappa’s residence, camp leaders cited the “demand by occasion staff” to behave in opposition to Yatnal.
Talking to reporters after the assembly, former minister B C Patil mentioned that BJP staff need Yatnal to be expelled greater than occasion leaders. “If he continues along with his methods, motion should be taken in opposition to him. A gathering of greater than 50 senior BJP leaders is scheduled on December 10 at Davanagere to debate varied points,” he mentioned.
Responding to media queries, Vijayendra mentioned he had neither complained nor sought Yatnal’s expulsion from the occasion. “I don’t want that. However occasion staff are demanding it,” he mentioned, including that Yatnal’s acts in current days broken the occasion. Yatnal has been a vocal critic of Yediyurappa and Vijayendra and has defied the directives of occasion items over a number of points prior to now few months.
Taking a dig at Yatnal, he mentioned that some leaders within the occasion failed to know the significance of being united. “They assume their solely job is to deride Vijayendra and Yediyurappa. They’re of the phantasm that by doing so they’ll safe an enormous put up,” he mentioned.
On the BJP legislator’s demand that the occasion excessive command change state management, he mentioned that Yatnal ought to know the place to lift the calls for and in entrance of whom. “Let him proceed his efforts and search the assist of extra folks if required. The occasion excessive command has readability concerning the path the state unit has to go in.”
Yatnal, who was summoned to Delhi on Monday, said that he’s not frightened concerning the complaints filed in opposition to him. He clarified that his go to pertains to his marketing campaign relating to Waqf points within the state. Yatnal talked about that he and the BJP leaders who assist him would meet with members of the Parliament’s joint committee to look at the Waqf (Modification) Invoice, 2024.
