The former Chief Minister and BJP chief B.S. Yediyurappa has mentioned that his choice to stop as Chief Minister was primarily based on the general well-being of the celebration.
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“I resigned from the post of Chief Minister of my own volition. I was not removed by the BJP leadership,” the previous Chief Minister and BJP chief B.S. Yediyurappa mentioned in Belagavi on Thursday.
He informed journalists earlier than a gathering of celebration staff that allegations being made by some Congress leaders that the BJP excessive command had removed him from the post are false and baseless.
“Who said that the BJP high command removed me from the Chief Minister’s post? I resigned on my own. My decision was based on the overall well-being of the party and to become a model for others by withdrawing from electoral politics after a certain age,” he mentioned.
Later, he addressed a marketing campaign assembly in Belagavi North constituency.
He requested celebration staff to marketing campaign in unison, for the celebration candidate Ravi Patil. He requested them to not waste time discussing in regards to the celebration’s technique about selecting or dropping candidates. He mentioned that Member of Legislative Assembly Anil Benake is working actively in Dr. Patil’s election marketing campaign, regardless of not being re-nominated from Belagavi North.
He additionally praised the loyalty of staff Murughendragouda Patil and Dhananjay Pawar, who’re working for the celebration, although their claims for celebration ticket haven’t been honoured.
Mr. Yediyurappa requested celebration staff to defeat all those that defected just lately. “Leaders Jagadish Shettar and Laxman Savadi have stabbed the BJP in the back. They should be defeated to send a message to those who are not loyal to the party,” he mentioned.
He mentioned that he’ll tour extensively within the constituencies of those two leaders to marketing campaign in opposition to them.
Savadi responds
Meanwhile, responding to this, Mr. Savadi mentioned that a frontrunner who had stop the BJP to type the KJP mustn’t speak about others who stop the BJP to hitch different events.
“I do not understand why is Mr. Yediyurappa talking about me? If my act of leaving the party to join another amounts to betrayal and backstabbing, what did his act of forming a new party after quitting the BJP amount to? What if someone spoke in similar terms about him when he started his own party, the KJP?. Anyway, he is a great leader while I am a small man compared to him. I will not comment further,” he informed journalists in Athani on Thursday.
