KSE wants suspension of his loyalists revoked

BJP senior leader K S Eshwarappa said on Sunday that he wants the party to revoke the suspension of Bhanuprakash and Nirmal Kumar Surana as vice-presidents.

Eshwarappa, speaking to reporters in Mathur village, Shivamogga district, said, “It hurts to see how those who have worked hard for the organisation and the party are being treated. If this is the plight of those who have worked hard for the organisation, what will be the fate of ordinary workers in the party?”

He said he would request the party’s national president Amit Shah and Muralidhar Rao, general secretary in charge of Karnataka, to withdraw the order removing Bhanuprakash and Surana as office-bearers. Eshwarappa met Bhanuprakash at his residence in Mathur.

Speaking to reporters in Tumakuru, he dismissed the possibility of action being taken against him.

“Why will anyone take action against me? I have never betrayed the party. I have served as the state unit president of the party for three terms,” Eshwarappa said.

“I have worked for strengthening and building the party even when Yeddyurappa had quit the BJP to form the KJP. I had taken up the post of state party president by resigning as the Energy Minister,” he said.