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Yeddyurappa to back Modi after BJP return
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BS Yeddyurappa To Back Modi After BJP Return, Former Karnataka CM BS Yeddyurappa. Ending months of speculation, former Karnataka chief minister BS Yeddyurappa (BSY) on Monday said he would return to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which he had deserted to form his own outfit more than a year ago.
Shimoga: Ending months of speculation, former Karnataka chief minister BS Yeddyurappa (BSY) on Monday said he would return to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which he had deserted to form his own outfit more than a year ago.
“I will give sweet news in the first week of New Year. I know the party which I built has suffered due to my absence. I will not only rejoin my parental party but also tour the entire state to strengthen the hands of Narendra Modi to make him the prime minister,” Yeddyurappa said.
The talk about the homecoming of Yeddyurappa had gained more currency in recent weeks with state leaders making intensified efforts to bring him back and the former BJP strongman also giving enough indications about it.
Yeddyurappa’s statement to reporters at his home constituency of Shikaripura in Shimoga district comes a day after he told a Karnataka Janatha Paksha (KJP) party workers meet that “this may become the final KJP meet.”
He said he had spoken to BJP president Rajnath Singh and even the state leaders had been talking about the necessity of his return.
“I grew up in the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). I could become the chief minister only because of the blessings and support of the party,” he said, adding his return was “unconditional.”
He said the Congress had benefited as a result of the BJP and KJP contesting the May 8 assembly elections separately in the state. Garnering 10 per cent vote share and six seats, Yeddyurappa had damaged the prospects of the then ruling BJP but failed to make an impact as an independent entity.
BSY said he had left the BJP out of “inevitable circumstances.”
He said the BJP had won 19 of the 28 Lok Sabha seats in Karnataka in the last elections and his effort in the 2014 parliamentary elections would be to get more number of seats.
He said after assembly elections, KJP had planned to have a tie-up with BJP but “on clearance from BJP high command” to induct him back he has decided to merge KJP with BJP.
He said he would strive to strengthen the BJP in the state and help the party gain more number of seats in next Lok Sabha elections, Deccan Herald reported. “This is my primary goal and I am confident that I will achieve this. I have no desire to gain any key position in the BJP,” he said.
His MP-son BY Raghavendra said: “I will follow him (Yeddyurappa) without fail as he worked for the overall development of the district during his tenure as chief minister.”
Yeddyurappa, a strongman from the majority Lingayat community, was made to quit as chief minister in July 2011 over findings of Lokayukta indicting him on illegal mining issue.
Sidelined by BJP central leadership subsequently, Yeddyurappa had formed KJP in December last year, ending his 40-year-long association with the BJP.
BJP president Rajnath Singh, had strongly indicated that BSY would soon be re-inducted into the party. When asked about the specific date for the reentry of BSY, Singh replied: “Each and every process is underway, we will let you know once the party takes a decision”.
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