Yeddy Might Survive Trust Vote; Katta May be Asked to Quit
By Gabriel Vaz
Daijiworld Media Network - Bangalore
Bangalore, Oct 7: Crisis-ridden B S Yeddyurappa regime appears to have managed to win over most of the dissidents with the mediatory efforts of Bellary mining lords led by Tourism and Infrastructure Minister Gali Janardhana Reddy and BJP national general secretary Ananth Kumar under the leadership of the party high command emissary Venkaiah Naidu bearing fruit.
Even though the final details of the compromise formula are yet to be worked out, informed sources said the dissident legislators led by Excise Minister M P Renukacharya have been promised that the Chief Minister himself will apologise in order to pave the way for smoothening the process of reconciliation.
Another important part of the compromise formula, is to persuade Housing and IT-BT Minister Katta Subramanya Naidu to honourably quit rather than facing the ignominy of being sacked until the bribery charge in connection with the land compensation scandal involving his son Katta Jagadish, BBMP corporator from Vasanthnagar, is satisfactorily resolved.
The dissidents have been promised that many of the strong and disgruntled aspirants like Soraba MLA, Belur Gopalakrishna, former ministers S K Bellubbi and Goolihatti Shekar and possibly Shivanagouda Naik and the senior-most BJP MLA from Mysore turned dissident H S Shankaralinge Gowda might be inducted into the cabinet after the Yeddyurappa regime manages to win the trust vote in the State Assembly on October 11 or 12 as directed by the Governor.
State BJP president K S Eshwarappa has also predicted that the Yeddyurappa regime will survive and BJP Government will become stronger.
"The Congress and JD(S) leaders will have to hang their heads in shame for their toppling and destabilization attempts,” Eshwarappa said.
If the contours of the compromise formula that are being hammered out by Venkaiah Naidu with the help of the Reddy brothers and Ananth Kumar are accepted by the dissidents, it will surely increase the clout of Ananth Kumar and Reddy brothers while the chief minister might become more beholden to them and therefore vulnerable to further pressure tactics.
The dissidence in the party is because of some minor misunderstanding and will blow over,” Venkaiah Naidu said predicting that the crisis will blow over. ``We will remain untied and emerge stronger,” he quipped.
Though several ministers including B Sriramulu, V Somanna, Krishna Palemar, Dr V S Acharaya, S A Ravindranath, Revu Naik Belamagi and even S Suresh Kumar have offered to quit to help the Chief Minister to accommodate as many of the ministerial aspirants as possible, it is not known who will be asked to finally quit.
But, according to informed sources, the Chief Minister has already dropped six ministers and asking another 3 to 4 ministers to quit might help him to accommodate 8 to 10 ministerial aspirants and buy peace.
The final details are expected to be worked out by Sunday in order to enable the Chief Minister to face the trust vote in the State Assembly with more confidence.
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