BSY's parting shot: BJP national leaders are biased

Former chief minister B S Yeddyurappa, while bidding goodbye to the BJP by resigning from its primary membership, has hit out at the party  saying its leaders were biased in their dealings.

In his three-page resignation letter to BJP president Nitin Gadkari, Yeddyurappa said some leaders sitting in New Delhi started spreading canards about him and made the central leaders believe what they were saying. “The central leaders lacked magnanimity in understanding the truth.”

There was much scope for the central leaders to set things right, but they failed to act. The party also failed to acknowledge 40 years of hard work he had put in and, the sufferings he had undergone in building the party, which had no base in Karnataka unlike in northern states. 

In a direct attack against the party chief, Yeddyurappa said as the head of the party, Gadkari failed to fathom the political situation in the State and understand the machinations of the Opposition leaders who believed that removing him from the chief minister’s post would automatically end the BJP’s run in the State. To make “someone” else the chief minister, Gadkari supported the conspiracies hatched by some BJP leaders with vested interests, he noted.

‘Tolerated humiliation’

Yeddyurappa said he tolerated humiliations and mental agony only to ensure that the party which he had built was not decimated in the State by the rival parties. 

He said it was a tough decision to quit the BJP. But, the circumstances and the situation in the BJP are unbearable and unpalatable.

“I agree that building a party is not an individual’s task. But, my contribution to the BJP’s growth in Karnataka is unquestionable and unparalleled,” he said.

He also claimed that he was never after power. Much against the party’s advice, he decided to step down as the chief minister when the coalition government was in office.

He said that he could have continued as the chief minister or dissolved the Assembly after charges were levelled against him in the Lokayukta report.