<p>Gadkari and his wife will take a special flight from New Delhi and will land at Jindal airport in Vidyanagar and then drive to residence of B K Srinivasmurthy, a doctor, where the pooja will be held, sources said. He will also attend a mass marriage programme before returning to Delhi. <br /><br />BJP senior leader Sushma Swaraj, who had made it annual ritual to attend Varamahalakshmi pooja organised by Karunakara Reddy and Janardhana Reddy - decided to keep off the leaders facing grave charges of illegal mining, this year.<br /><br />Waning influence<br /><br />Swaraj has been attending the pooja programme since 1999 after she unsuccessfully contested the Lok Sabha elections against AICC president Sonia Gandhi.<br /><br />The Reddys, who have been camping in New Delhi after they were left out when Chief Minister D V Sadananda Gowda inducted 21 members into Cabinet on August 8, succeeded in persuading Gadkari to attend the programme.<br /><br />The party central leadership did not consider their request to induct a couple of their nominees during the second round of Cabinet expansion on Thursday. <br /><br />Gadkari, it is said, was not averse to inducting B Sriramulu, the associates of Reddys, as minister in the Sadananda Gowda Cabinet. But, the State leaders are said to have thwarted his plans. <br /><br /></p>
<p>Gadkari and his wife will take a special flight from New Delhi and will land at Jindal airport in Vidyanagar and then drive to residence of B K Srinivasmurthy, a doctor, where the pooja will be held, sources said. He will also attend a mass marriage programme before returning to Delhi. <br /><br />BJP senior leader Sushma Swaraj, who had made it annual ritual to attend Varamahalakshmi pooja organised by Karunakara Reddy and Janardhana Reddy - decided to keep off the leaders facing grave charges of illegal mining, this year.<br /><br />Waning influence<br /><br />Swaraj has been attending the pooja programme since 1999 after she unsuccessfully contested the Lok Sabha elections against AICC president Sonia Gandhi.<br /><br />The Reddys, who have been camping in New Delhi after they were left out when Chief Minister D V Sadananda Gowda inducted 21 members into Cabinet on August 8, succeeded in persuading Gadkari to attend the programme.<br /><br />The party central leadership did not consider their request to induct a couple of their nominees during the second round of Cabinet expansion on Thursday. <br /><br />Gadkari, it is said, was not averse to inducting B Sriramulu, the associates of Reddys, as minister in the Sadananda Gowda Cabinet. But, the State leaders are said to have thwarted his plans. <br /><br /></p>
