Speculation rife after BJP national general secretary B L Santosh holds meeting with Karnataka CM Yediyurappa

BJP national general secretary (organisation) B L Santhosh. Credit: DH File Photo

BJP national general secretary (organisation) B L Santhosh held a meeting with Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa on Tuesday.

Santhosh also met Deputy Chief Minister C N Ashwath Narayan and other top party leaders during the day at the BJP headquarters.

These meetings fuelled speculation in political circles.

Yediyurappa said he discussed Karnataka’s Covid-19 situation with Santhosh.

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“We spent about an hour discussing the Covid-19 situation in Delhi and other places. We told him the good work being done here. He assured all help from Delhi,” Yediyurappa told reporters.

Santhosh’s visit came after Home Minister Basavaraj Bommai was “summoned” to Delhi by the BJP central leadership. Bommai was reportedly quizzed by the top leadership over a submission by the state government in the Supreme Court on Karnataka’s oxygen
situation.

Bommai’s visit to New Delhi along with BJP vice-president B Y Vijayendra led to specualation of a change in leadership. But Bommai denied any such development.

On Monday, state BJP president Nalin Kumar Kateel met the CM.