Speaking to reporters, he suggested that instead of removing one or two ministers, Shettar should drop all his supporters from the Cabinet. “Why remove one or two ministers. Let him drop them all. That's what I have been asking him to do all these days,” he stated.
Yeddyurappa was reacting to the State BJP core committee's decision to drop Shobha for having criticised the chief minister on the law and order situation in the State.
She had recently alleged that the government has failed to ensure security to women and increase in number of atrocity cases against women in the chief minister's home district, Dharwad, was a testimony to it. Shobha is a close associate of Yeddyurappa.
Raking the issue
According to sources, Shobha wants the BJP to take action against her so that she can rake up the issue of women's security in the State. So was the reason she has been skirting specific queries by the media on whether she will voluntarily offer to quit.
On finding the media persons at Yeddyurappa's Dollar's Colony residence on Sunday morning, she chose not to alight from her car and returned.
Ridicules Ananth Kumar
On the BJP core committee decision to project Shettar as the chief ministerial candidate in the next assembly elections, Yeddyurappa said he was happy about it. However, he sarcastically took a dig at BJP national general secretary Ananth Kumar and said: “Ananth Kumar has been trying hard to project himself as the chief ministerial candidate. So it has come as a big disappointment to him.”
The BJP is planning to please a particular community by projecting Shettar as the chief ministerial candidate. It will not affect the KJP in any way. The KJP has the support of all the communities, he added.
Meanwhile, Yeddyurappa participating in a religious function, said he formed the KJP due to the inability of national parties to protect the State's interest on issues like sharing of Cauvery river water.
National parties have lost their significance at the centre. Regional parties have been playing an important role in national politics. It is because of this reason the Centre has been dancing to the tunes of the ruling AIADMK in Tamil Nadu on the Cauvery issue, while meting out injustice to Karnataka, he added.
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