BS Yediyurappa’s Message To BJP In Tweets Amid Exit Rumours

Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa this night appealed to his colleagues within the BJP to “not bask in protest and indiscipline”, amid stress over exit rumours after a meet with Prime Minister Narendra Modi final week. Mr Yediyurappa’s tweet is being seen as a delicate trace to the centre, at a time he has been racking up assist from spiritual leaders and even a former Congress minister.

Immediately, Mr Yediyurappa, 78, tweeted he has been a “loyal employee” of the BJP. “I’m privileged to be a loyal employee of BJP. It’s my utmost honour to serve the social gathering with highest requirements of ethics & behaviour. I urge everybody to behave in accordance with social gathering ethics & not bask in protests/indiscipline that’s disrespectful & embarrassing for the social gathering,” Mr Yediyurappa stated.

I’m privileged to be a loyal employee of BJP. It’s my utmost honour to serve the social gathering with highest requirements of ethics & behaviour. I urge everybody to behave in accordance with social gathering ethics & not bask in protests/indiscipline that’s disrespectful & embarrassing for the social gathering.

— B.S. Yediyurappa (@BSYBJP) July 21, 2021

The Chief Minister’s sudden journey to Delhi final week to satisfy the BJP’s prime leaders had raised questions on how lengthy he would proceed in his submit. Whereas in Delhi, when requested about rumours of a management change within the state BJP, he advised reporters: “There isn’t a fact in it. Under no circumstances. Under no circumstances. Under no circumstances.” He stated the identical after flying again to Bengaluru – that he would hold the submit.

Mr Yediyurappa, the BJP’s first and solely Chief Minister in south India, has nearly accomplished two years in cost since he took over from the Congress-Janata Dal (Secular) coalition in July 2019.

He has been dealing with what was seen as hostility from some BJP MLAs within the state. Some leaders together with MLA Basanagouda Patil Yatnal, Tourism Minister CP Yogeshwar and MLC AH Vishwanath have spoken in opposition to Mr Yediyurappa, regardless of warnings of disciplinary motion by the management.

The Chief Minister’s critics within the social gathering, together with MLA Basanagouda Patil Yatnal, had hit out at Mr Yediyurappa’s son and social gathering state vp BY Vijayendra for accompanying his father to Delhi final week. Mr Yatnal alleged Mr Yediyurappa’s son was “operating the federal government in Karnataka.”

Yesterday, Mr Yediyurappa met mutt chiefs, or highly effective clergymen of the state, in what many see as a message to the BJP and its ideological mentor, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).

The political and spiritual leaders of the Veerashaiva-Lingayat neighborhood, which includes 16 per cent of the state’s inhabitants and is seen because the BJP’s massive assist base within the state, are backing the Chief Minister. A number of of them have warned the BJP in opposition to any transfer to dislodge Mr Yediyurappa, who additionally belongs to the neighborhood.