Top leaders must join BSY in drought tour: BJP core committee

The BJP core committee meeting on Sunday decided that all senior leaders need to actively participate in the ongoing drought assessment tour taken up by party state president B S Yeddyurappa.

At the meeting held at the party headquarters in Bengaluru, Yeddyurappa is understood to have pointed out that senior leaders were not accompanying him during the tour and he was more or less left with local party functionaries.

Yeddyurappa had launched a 36-day ‘Janasamparka Yatra’ from Tumakuru on May 18. Members of the core committee including Union Ministers Ananth Kumar and D V Sadananda Gowda agreed that more leaders should accompany Yeddyurappa.

It was also felt that the party could have handled the controversy relating to Yeddyurappa eating hotel food in Dalits’ residence better. The party should not have let the issue become a weapon in the hands of the Opposition, was the opinion of the panel, sources added.

Senior leader K S Eshwarappa, who was expected to raise the issue of revisiting the list of office-bearers and district presidents at the meeting, did not do so due to ‘paucity of time’.  “We discussed only organisational matters today,” Eshwarappa told DH.

Briefing reporters after the meeting, BJP state general secretary Aravind Limbavali said it has been decided to hold the party’s election management committee meeting in Bengaluru on June 1 and 2 to work out the initial strategy for the 2018 Assembly polls.

It was also decided to shift the venue of the party state executive meeting, scheduled to be held on July 22 and 23, from Ballari to Bengaluru for logistical reasons.

Limbavali said the party will hold conventions at 33 places across the state by June 15 to list out the achievements of the Narendra Modi government during the last three years.

 Top state leaders will also be participating in the two-day BJP national executive committee meeting in Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh from July 15.
DH News Service