Factional feud in the ruling BJP in Karnataka showed signs of escalating with 19 more legislators demanding an emergent legislature party meet to discuss party affairs.
Factional feud in the ruling BJP in Karnataka on Thursday showed signs of escalating with 19 more legislators demanding an emergent legislature party meet to discuss party affairs and other issues, but Chief Minister DV Sadananda Gowda plainly rejected the demand.
"The letter written by Chief Minister and state party chief KS Eswarappa to the National Party President Nitin Gadkari accusing some MLAs of indulging in anti-party activities has pained several legislators and lakhs of workers," the legislators said in a letter to Gowda.
Since yesterday, this is the second letter to be shot off to Gowda by former Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa's loyalists wherein 19 MLAs including two ministers made a similar demand.
In today's letter signed by B Suresh Gowda, Thippeswamy, Chikkangoudar, M Virupakshappa and others, they have accused Gowda of not convening the legislature party meet in the last nine months after he became chief minister.
Unfazed by the pressure by the Yeddyurappa camp, Gowda said there is no need for convening an emergency legislature party meeting to discuss the contents of a letter he wrote to the party president.
"It is a letter written to Gadkari. If any, discussion on the contents of the letter will be between me and Gadkari", Gowda asserted.
Gowda has been facing repeated pinpricks from the loyalists of Yeddyurappa who recently made an aggressive bid to regain chief ministership only to be coldshouldered by the central leaders who asked him to come clean in corruption cases against him.
Meanwhile, Yeddyurappa's Race Course residence got reactivated as the epicentre of dissident activity with several of his supporters including legislators visiting it and holding discussions.
About a dozen MPs, loyal to Yeddyurappa, are also reportedly pressing for a legislature party meeting.
Minister for Animal Husbandry Revunaik Bilamagi, who has thrown his weight behind Yeddyurappa, told reporters in Gulbarga that he has not indulged in any anti-party activity and was willing to quit the ministry, if the party high command desired so.
Minister for Rural Development Jagadish Shettar, who has now identified himself with the Yeddyurappa camp, said in Gulbarga that he was unware of the political developments and will abide by the decision of the party central leadership.
With Gowda expected to expand the ministry, the political activity in BJP is expected to gain momentum in the coming days.
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