It’s the moment of truth. the Karnataka Chief Minister, Mr B.S. Yeddyurappa, will come face to face with his worst nightmare on Wednesday when the rebel Reddys plan a “show of strength” by flying in an as yet undisclosed number of MLAs, MLCs and MPs to the national Capital.
They will include not just the 21 MLAs they have holed up in Hyderabad and Goa, but several senior BJP state leaders with an axe to grind against the beleaguered Chief Minister, with sources on the inside of the Reddy camp saying they hope to have at least 71 BJP elected representatives with them, including the BJP MLCs, Mr D.H. Shankaramurthy, and Mr Mukhyamantri Chandru, who have openly arrayed themselves against the Chief Minister.
Sources close to Mr Yeddyurappa said they do not expect to see more than 38-40 at best. The BJP leadership, caught between its need to show that it stands by its man while not giving in to the wealthy Reddys who bankrolled the Assembly and parliamentary elections that gave the saffron party its first government in the South, is caught in a cleft stick.
The BJP top leadership has repeatedly made clear that there will be no change of Chief Minister in the state and certainly no parading of supporters. But the unrelenting Mr Janardhan Reddy said he would not leave the national capital until his demands were met. “I will not leave the Capital until our demands of removing Yeddyurappa are met,” he told the media, as the Karnataka Chief Minister is set to arrive in Delhi late Wednesday night after he tours yet another flood-hit district. With his meeting with the senior party, leader Ms Sushma Swaraj, for the second time in the day also running aground, Mr Janardhan Reddy said he was drawing on “state BJP leaders with similar views as mine, who are already on the way to New Delhi to apprise the top leadership in the party on the changes we want (in the state government) in the best interests of Karnataka. Some leaders have already arrived.”
The Reddy brothers have told Ms Swaraj, that of the 65 legislators in their camp “only some of them are coming to Delhi, and that if needed we can provide a video of the other MLAs and MLCs supporting our stand,” sources disclosed ahead of a crucial meeting on November 6 being brokered by the party top brass between the two warring sides.
During their meeting with Ms Swaraj, sources said the brothers had flayed the Chief Minister and accused him of being “jealous of their good performance in flood relief work.”
They also charged Mr Yeddyurappa with “jeopardising the interests of flood affected and indulging in petty politics.” The Reddy brothers also told the party high command that they collected more funds than the Chief Minister.
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