Act on governor's report before your foreign trip: BS Yeddyurappa to PM

Hinting that his patience is running out, Karnataka chief minister BS Yeddyurappa today appealed to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to reject Governor HR Bhardwaj's recommendation on imposition of President's Rule in the state before embarking on a foreign trip tomorrow.

Manmohan Singh will leave tomorrow on a six-day visit to Ethiopia and Tanzania.

Yeddyurappa said when BJP and NDA leaders met Singh last week, the delegation was told nothing unconstitutional would be done vis-a-vis the governor's special report, adding, he has full faith in the prime minister and home minister P Chidambaram that it would not be accepted.

But he warned, "I will perhaps wait only today and tomorrow. After that, our ministers and MPs may have to change the format of agitational programme. That may become inevitable for us."

Earlier in Bangalore, Yeddyurappa also said the opposition Congress and JDS want to dislodge the government as it is popular and has people's support and they feared that if it continued in office, they would be "destroyed" and would "bite the dust".