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Sadananda Gowda in Delhi, Yeddyurappa calls him 'traitor'
Sunday May 13, 2012 06:26:55 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi/Bangalore: Karnataka Chief Minister D.V.
Sadananda Gowda, facing a bid by his predecessor B.S. Yeddyurappa
to oust him, arrived in New Delhi Sunday to meet Bharatiya Janata
Party leaders to save his government.
Gowda declined to react to Yeddyurappa calling him, at a public
function in Bangalore earlier in the day, a "traitor" and
comparing him to "the devil quoting the scripture".
He also downplayed the former chief minister complimenting
Congress president Sonia Gandhi for defending her party leaders
whenever allegations were levelled against them.
Yeddyurappa also slammed his own party saying it used allegations
"to trample on its own people".
"I do not think he praised Sonia Gandhi," Gowda, who succeeded
Yeddyurappa Aug 4 last year, told reporters on arrival in New
Delhi.
Gowda Saturday had taken a dig at Yeddyurappa at a function in
Bangalore. Without mentioning him by name, Gowda had made fun of
Yeddyurappa's frequent visits to temples and meetings with
religious heads.
"In the past people wanted power to do good for the people. Now
people do wrong things when in power and then offer donations and
gifts to gods thinking they will be forgiven," Gowda said.
Gowda is visiting New Delhi ostensibly to attend the function to
mark the 60th anniversary of the first session of parliament.
However, the main purpose of the visit will be to meet BJP leaders
to demand that they rein in Yeddyurappa and his supporters, who
have been publicly demanding replacement of Gowda for weeks now.
As part of the pressure tactics Yeddyurappa, Saturday secured the
resignation of at least seven ministers loyal to him.
Legislators supporting him are claiming that at least 40 of the
BJP's 120 legislators in the 225-member Karnataka assembly will
also give their resignation letters to Yeddyurappa in the next two
days.
Yeddyurappa is flexing muscles as his efforts to regain chief
ministership has been thwarted following Friday's Supreme Court
order for the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into
corruption charges against him.
He and his supporters now want to have their own man as chief
minister. Though Gowda was handpicked by Yeddyurappa to succeed
him, they have now fallen out.
In Bangalore, state BJP chief K.S. Eshwarappa met state Rashtriya
Swayamsevak Sangh leaders and also Rural Development Minister
Jagadish Shettar, whom Yeddyurappa and his supporters want to be
made chief minister.
Yeddyurappa had earlier opposed Shettar taking over from him as
both belong to the politically influential lingayat community.
However, he has now joined hands with Shettar to unseat Gowda.
As the factional fight plunged to a new low with Yeddyurappa's
attack on Gowda, it has become a virtual free-for-all in the state
BJP which completes four years of its maiden rule in Karnataka May
30.
While Yeddyurappa loyalists are claiming that the Gowda government
will fall Monday, the chief minister's supporters, including
Municipal Administration Minister Balachandra Jarkiholi, are
threatening that they will quit the assembly if he is replaced.
Jarkiholi claimed that 61 of the BJP's 120 legislators were with
Gowda. He and many of them will quit the assembly to force an
election if Gowda was replaced, he has been telling the media.
There is also intense speculation that Yeddyurappa may himself
announce Monday that he will quit the assembly and send his and
the resignation letters of legislators supporting him to BJP
president Nitin Gadkari.
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