BANGALORE/TUMKUR: Its a tug- of -war between former chief minister B S Yeddyurappa and his loyalist ministers-legislators who are doing their utmost bid to make him stay back in the BJP.
Even as "mission Yeddyurappa retention" has been initiated by chief minister Jagadish Shettar and his two deputies K S Eshwarappa and R Ashoka, the beleaguered former CM on Sunday said in Tumkur, 70km from Bangalore, that there is no change in his plans to quit the party and launch the Karnataka Janata Party (KJP) on December 10 in Haveri. "Patch-up meeting is a drama by the BJP leaders to create confusion among the people. Neither my followers nor I have attempted a patch-up. I am not going to New Delhi for talks," he maintained.
Though Yeddyurappa made this statement, both Shettar and Eshwarappa were confident that talks would happen and have booked flight tickets to New Delhi and are scheduled to leave on Monday evening. Yeddyurappa loyalist ministers Basaraj Bommai, Umesh V Katti and C M Udasi have official programmes in the capital and are expected to attend the meeting with Nitin Gadkari and senior leaders of BJP.
Ministers and legislators loyal to Yeddyurappa seems to be a worried lot as his proposed new regional party is not getting the desired support from expected quarters. The last three public meetings organized by Yeddyurappa at Chamarajanagar, Shimoga and Gulbarga, to woo leaders and cadres to his proposed outfit did not elicit good response.
Before Shettar and Ashoka tried to convince Yeddyurappa, his close aides Bommai and Katti reportedly approached Eshwarappa on Thursday to make efforts to retain the former CM.
On reports that some of his emissaries will be going to New Delhi on October 30 to work out a rapprochement between the central leadership and him, Yeddyurappa in Tumkur said: "I don't send any of my followers for any patch-up. Also it is none of my business to persuade my followers to come with me. Its left to them. In the coming days, people of Karnataka will know who all will be with me," he maintained.
Reiterating he was not going to go back on his decision to quit the BJP, Yeddyurappa claimed some of the party leaders were already planning to face the assembly polls without him. "More than 70 MLAs are with me and I will surely launch the party," he said.
The BJP appears that it cannot lose the Lingayat leader as the party has set its eyes firmly on the next parliamentary polls and may forget Yeddyurappa's recent outbursts against its leaders in a bid to win maximum number of Lok Sabha seats from Karnataka.
A BJP senior leader said the central leadership may agree to offer the campaign committee chairman's post to Yeddyurappa if he is willing.
Three prominent Lingayat pontiffs have reportedly expressed their dissatisfaction with Yeddyurappa's decision to quit the party.
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