BSY will decide govt's fate on Jan 4

Former Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa on Wednesday stepped up his attack against the BJP government in the state and said his party Karnataka Janatha Paksha (KJP) would take a call on January four on whether the Jagadish Shettar-headed ministry should continue in office or not.

Addressing a meeting before proceeding on a “Vidhana Soudha chalo” protest, Yeddyurappa, who quit the BJP nearly a month ago, said the BJP government has lost its majority and has no moral right to continue in office.

“We will tell the governor the government does not have support of (majority of) MLAs. It has lost majority,” he said, adding, a meeting of KJP’s office-bearers on January 4 would decide on “whether the government should continue or not.” Yeddyurappa, key leaders of KJP and workers were not allowed to proceed to Vidhana Soudha to lay siege to it and were stopped some distance away, where they courted arrest.

 

As many as 14 BJP MLAs participated in a rally earlier this month in Haveri, where Yeddyurappa formally launched KJP. Some 10 ministers had a breakfast meeting with him earlier that day but chose not to attend the rally. At the meeting on Wednesday, Yeddyurappa launched a frontal attack on the Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar, slamming him as “shameless”, in deep slumber like “Kumbakarna”, and “sticking to his chair”.

He alleged, the government betrayed the poor in the last one year and two months by stopping monthly pensions to the elderly, widow and physically handicapped under pretexts of rechecking and reviewing the beneficiaries list.