Renukacharya reminds DVS of his ‘promise’ to BSY
Excise Minister M P Renukacharya has said that Chief Minister D V Sadananda Gowda should not forget the promise he had made to his predecessor B S Yeddyurappa.
The minister was speaking to reporters in the city on Sunday. When asked what the promise was, he only said he would answer the question when the time comes for it.
Renukacharya said that Gowda should not approach the high command for everything and that he should remember it was as the candidate of Yeddyurappa that he (Gowda) became chief minister and not as a nominee of the central leadership.
He said there was no need to draw inferences from Yeddyurappa’s statement that he would change completely after Sankranti. Renukacharya said the former chief minister only meant that they would concentrate on building the party, forgetting all the unsavoury incidents of the past.
The minister said he would soon expose the names of those in the party who had hatched a conspiracy, along with external forces, to drive a wedge between Yeddyurappa and the State BJP chief K S Eshwarappa. He denied there was resort culture in the BJP. Renukacharya said Minister Murugesh Nirani had been to Delhi to meet the party’s central leadership not to discuss politics, but to invite some of the leaders for the inauguration of his sugar factory. He said Yeddyurappa had been instrumental in building the party as the State unit chief and that BJP came to power only because of him. Hence, he should get back the chief minister’s post.
Renukacharya expressed confidence that the party high command would reinstall Yeddyurappa as the chief minister and that it was keenly observing the political developments in the State.
Expulsion demanded
Meanwhile, senior leader B B Shivappa has demanded that Yeddyurappa should be expelled from the party and disciplinary action taken against him, for not following the directions of elders in the party due to his hunger for power.
Shivappa was speaking at a meeting of BJP elders at a private hotel in Mysore on Sunday. “BJP is a disciplined party. But, Yeddyurappa has openly attacked the State party president. Yet, the central leadership is hesitant in taking action against him.
BJP will remain eternally, whether Yeddyurappa stays in the party or not,” the senior leader said.
“The BJP’s image has taken a beating as Yeddyurappa was in jail and is out on bail,” he said. Shivappa said he would undertake a tour of North Karnataka from January 16, to create awareness among the people about how Yeddyurappa’s arrest had brought a bad name to the BJP.
