Wednesday, November 21, 2012

BS YEDIYURAPPA: PROFILE

Battling huge odds and crass opportunism, Yediyurappa has shown time and again why he is the king

According to the agreement, power was to be shared. But JD(S) supremo H.D. Devegowda, intervened and Yediyurappa’s first stint as CM lasted for a mere seven days. But after that the rest is history.

“As an RSS member, my father came to Shikaripur (Yediyurappa’s constituency) in the mid-seventies. His day begins at 5.00 a.m. and ends well after midnight,” Vijayendra Yediyurappa, the CM’s son told B&E. He has fought for the rights of ‘bagar hukum’ (unauthorised cultivators), peasants and bonded labours and has exposed the food-for-work scam. “Without doubt, Yediyurappa is the face of BJP in South India,” concurs D.V. Sadananda Gowda, BJP state unit president.

But the road ahead is not easy. BJP’s powerful General Secretary, Ananth Kumar, has no love lost for him. Also, there are six Independents, who are currently the main pillars of the BJP Government in the state. But the unseemly squabbles over portfolio distribution could hardly be described as fortuitous.


Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.

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