Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (SP)

Bengaluru, Jun 2: BJP dissident legislators, in a bid to bag positions of power, have continued with their pressure tactics. Chief minister, B S Yediyurappa, who has said that he is too busy with other work to attend to issues like dissidence, is learnt to have entrusted the work of negotiating with the dissident leaders to senior party leader and former chief minister Jagadish Shettar, and deputy chief minister Govind Karjol. Yediyurappa also wants to meet the disgruntled party colleagues in a week, it is learnt.

The chief minister is agreeable to consider the demand for additional grants put up by the dissidents for their constituencies. But he is firm on not expanding the ministry for the present as it is not in his hand. He said that he is not averse to cabinet expansion if the high command asks him to do so.

The dissident leaders who met on Sunday also had urged a party leader currently in Delhi to arrange for their meeting with the party high command. But they are yet to get a green signal from the leader.

State BJP president Nalin Kumar Kateel stated that the anti-party activities will not be tolerated and if these activities intensify, suitable action would be initiated.