Reverse Operation Kamala: Yeddy's Legal Adviser Back in Cong
From Our Special Correspondent
Daijiworld Media Network - Bangalore
Bangalore, Dec 20: In what may possibly be described as reverse 'operation kamala” or ''operation hasta” if you will, the Congress party has managed to lure back K Diwakar, who had joined the BJP and been appointed as the Legal Adviser to the former chief minister B S Yeddyurappa, along with his supporters.
Diwakar, who hails from Yeddyurappa’s Shimoga district and had been a practicing advocate in the State High Court, joined the Congress party in the presence of Shimoga district’s senior Congress Kagodu Thimmappa and KPCC President Dr G Parameshwar at the Congress Bhavan on Thursday.
The KPCC Chief admitted Diwakar back into the party immediately and granted him membership.
Addressing party workers, Diwakar, who returned to the Congress fold after eight years, said that he could not jell in the BJP as the Rastriya Swayamsevak Sangh's ''Garbha Gudi culture,” a phrase coined by former Congress MP, late H N Nanje Gowda, when he quit the BJP after joining it, did not allow outsiders like him to survive.
The Sangh Parivar did not allow outsiders to become part of the Hindutva oriented BJP, he said.
He had left the Congress party to join BJP along with the former Chief Minister S Bangarappa but many BJP leaders had to leave it due to suffocation.
Diwakar said it was time for all those, who opposed the RSS-backed BJP to join the Congress, committed to secularism and strengthen it.
He criticised the BJP government for getting passed several bills for setting up private universities at the instance of the RSS.
He also alleged that the Bangalore Development Authority had given a huge plot to the RSS in the city and the Congress would fight to cancel it.
Dr Parameshwara, who spoke to the media after admitting the one-time Congress leader back into the party fold, thanked the people of Himachal Pradesh for bringing the Congress back to power and those voters, who supported the party in Gujarat.
On the amendment to the Article 371 of the constitution giving special status to Hyderabad Karnataka region passed by both the houses of parliament, he said that everybody knew that it was the Congress-led UPA regime, which was responsible for it and not the BJP as its leaders claimed.
The KPCC chief said the Gujarat results would not have any negative impact on the Congress in the State, as the people were disillusioned with the BJP government's rampant corruption, nepotism and maladministration.
Dr Parameshwar claimed that the Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar would not succeed in presenting his budget as Yeddyurappa, who has taken over the KJP recently, would not allow him to do so.