Bangalore: Yeddy Begins to Weed His Office of Opposition Minions
Daijiworld Media Network – Bangalore (SP)
Bangalore, Jun 22: State Chief Minister, B S Yeddyurappa, had sanitized his office last year, after it became clear that JDS leaders were being supplied with inside information and confidential documents by some of his own men, who continued to be loyal to their past masters, who are now in the opposition.
The Chief Minister (CM) has found the need to purge his office of the unwanted elements again, after finding that inside information continues to be leaked to the opposition leaders. It is gathered that as part of this drive, 15 people were shunted out of his office. The officials, who were booted out, belong to the personal and political secretariat of the CM, and Chief Minister’s Relief Fund. On Tuesday June 21, nine transfers were affected from these offices. The CM is peeved at the indication that junior level employees of his office have been supplying details, documents, and other information regularly to the opposition leaders, who are doing everything in their command to humiliate and floor Yeddyurappa on one pretext or the other, by putting him in embarrassing situations frequently. It is strongly believed that the Gowda family has built a strong team of people loyal to them in important government offices. The image of the CM, as a result, is receiving a beating because of the systematic smear campaign launched in this fashion, sources revealed.
When the fact that some employees from the CM's office were more loyal to the opposition leaders than their own masters came out into the open last year, many had attributed this phenomenon to the inexperience of the CM. But the problem has resurfaced again this year. This effectively means that either the CM or the top officials working for him had failed to keep a tab on their own office, or their surveillance and vigilance measures have failed to function properly.
It may be recalled the opposition leaders, prominently former CM, H D Kumaraswamy, and former Prime Minister, H D Deve Gowda, have produced copies of government documents including orders that have favoured certain individuals, favours shown to the CM’s family members, largesse extended to certain businessmen in turn for ostensible favours received, etc, from time to time. The fact that Kumaraswamy came out with a list of accusations on June 15, supported by documentary evidence, has made the CM red-faced, making him to take a decision to find out the betrayers and transfer them.
Sources in the CM’s office have confessed that the office indeed had people passing sensitive and important information to wrong people. There are reports that some of the employees were caught in the act of joining hands with the opposition in the relentless campaign of the latter against the CM. They added that the transfer of employees were affected after conducting a thorough check of their functioning and working style, duly adding that some of these employees were transferred for reasons other than working to the detriment of the CM.