Gowda threatens BJP with revolt

Jul 11, 2012 - B. Aravinda Shetty and N.B. Hombal |

Age Correspondent

Amid high drama which lasted six hours, Karnataka chief minister D.V. Sada-nanda Gowda on Tuesday demonstrated that he is no pushover as he stymied efforts by his predecessor B.S. Yeddyurappa to grab plum posts ahead of the election of Jagadish Shet-tar, the Lingayat strongman, as leader of the legislature party.

Mr Gowda’s adamant sta-nd on contentious issues, and his demand that he be appointed the state BJP president, delayed the legislature party meeting till 4.30 pm. Thus, the swearing-in ceremony, originally scheduled for Wednesday, was postponed by a day with Mr Gowda set to hand in his resignation to governor H.R. Bhardwaj on Wednesday.
Sources in the party said Mr Gowda was not only backed by central obser-vers Rajnath Singh and Arun Jaitley but patriarch L.K. Advani himself in his mission to ensure that Mr Yeddyurappa would not have his way in either selection of the deputy CM or the state unit president.
Mr Advani was reportedly furious when he heard that the former CM was making moves to support energy minister Shobha Karandlaje for state unit president and home minister R. Ashok for deputy CM.

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