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Bangalore: Both JD(S) and BJP Grappling with Rebellion

  •   Thu, Nov 29 2007 08:30:38 PM

JD(S) Leader Prakash Rules out Patch-up with Gowda

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Bangalore, Nov 29 (mb): Dissident leader M P Prakash on Thursday ruled out any possibility of reconciliation with Deve Gowda and now Janata dal (Secular) is headed for a split.

Despite a number of meetings a section of the party is not willing to forgive Gowda and his son Kumaraswamy for pulling out of the coalition with the BJP at the last minute.

There is a lot of resentment and heartburn among the JD(S) MLAs for last minute withdrawal from the government.

Prakash said, ''Internal democracy does not exist in the party, its time for us to assert ourselves.''

Prakash said that the last minute withdrawal was unfair and adds that he has three choices now.

They have options to revive the Janta Dal, align with JD(United) or to form a new party called Bahujan Samaj Party.

Senior BJP leaders revolt against Yeddyurappa

Bangalore:  Even as the BJP in Karnataka is in the midst of a campaign to generate public sympathy over the ‘betrayal’ by the JD(S), a section of the saffron party has raised a banner of revolt against former chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa’s ‘autocratic’ style of functioning.

Senior BJP leaders Jagadish Shettar, K.S. Eshwarappa and D.H. Shankarmurthy, who left for New Delhi on Tuesday, are expected to meet the party’s national leadership with a litany of complaints against Yeddyurappa.

Their main grouse is that Yeddyurappa had ignored party leaders, who are identified with his arch-rival in the party Ananthkumar, a former federal Minister, in the decision making process.

The three BJP leaders, who are now in New Delhi, had kept themselves away from the second leg of the state-wide ‘Public Awareness Yatra’ as Yeddyurappa was taking independent decisions on party’s affairs without consulting senior party leaders. The BJP leaders are reported to have expressed displeasure over Yeddyurappa’s public statements that he alone was the ‘victim of the betrayal by the JD(S)’.

The BJP leaders are expected to urge the party’s national leadership to intervene in the matter and remove party’s state unit President Sadananda Gowda from the post.

Groups owing allegiance to Yeddyurappa and Ananthkumar have often clashed with each other earlier, putting the party in turmoil. The fresh bout of trouble appears to have erupted in the wake of the fall of the Yeddyurappa-led government earlier this month.

Meanwhile, Yeddyurappa denied that there was any discontentment in the party over his style of functioning. “I have sent the three of them to New Delhi to discuss organisational matters with the party leadership. There is no dissidence in the party”, Yeddyurappa claimed.

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