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Bangalore: Advani Yatra - BJP Non-committal on Yeddyurappa's Role

  •   Thu, Oct 13 2011 10:15:13 PM

Bangalore, Oct 13 (IANS): The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Thursday was evasive on whether scam-hit former chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa will take part in senior party leader L.K. Advani's rath yatra in Karnataka.

Yeddyurappa "remains our front ranking leader in the state", state BJP general secretary C.T. Ravi said at a press meet to announce the Karnataka schedule of Advani's nation-wide public awareness campaign.

Ravi was asked whether Yeddyurappa will join Advani's yatra that enters Karnataka on Oct 30 from Kerala.

Yeddyurappa, the BJP's first chief minister in south India, quit July 31 after the state Lokayukta (ombudsman) recommended his trial for graft in the illegal mining scam.

He is now busy attending courts to fight several cases of corruption and illegal land dealings filed against him by two Bangalore advocates Sirajin Bhasha and N. K. Balaraj and Janata Dal-Secular spokesperson Y.S.V. Datta.

Ravi said the yatra will pass through coastal districts of Dakshina Kannada, Udupi and Uttara Kannada.

The yatra will enter Dakshina Kannada from Kasargod in Kerala. Advani will address public meetings in Dakshina Kannada's main town Mangalore, Uudpi, the main town of Udupi district, and Honnavara and Ankola in Uttara Kannada on Oct 31, Ravi said.

From Ankola, the yatra will move to neighbouring Goa.

Ravi defended BJP general secretary and Bangalore South MP H. N. Ananthkumar accompanying Advani on the yatra as its convenor despite allegations of irregularities against him.

The irregularities allegedly took place in sanctioning loans from HUDCO (Housing and Urban Development Corporation) when Ananthkumar was central minister in the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government in 1998-2004.

"The charges against Ananthkumar are politically motivated. No case has been filed," Ravi said.

Advani started the Jan Chetana Yatra from Bihar Oct 11.
  

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  • Ram Shetty, Mangalore/Mumbai

    Thu, Oct 13 2011

    Ismail, Moodbidri yes you are right and these two are not corupted...

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  • Ismail, Moodbidri

    Thu, Oct 13 2011

    Advani's yatra is against corruption and black money of others. Yediyurappa and Reddy's should take part in this Yatra. Because they are the members of BJP. The campaign is against the corruption of others only.

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  • ISMAIL.K.PERINJE, PERINJE-YANBU/KSA

    Thu, Oct 13 2011

    Once enjoyed sovereign power and number one position who is by and largely responsible for South India's debut and only one govt in Karnataka gradually loosing grips in party and power politics which could teach a good lesson for ambitious politicians.BASVALINGAPPA SIDDALINGAPPA YEDURAPPA now a days in the center of controversies limping towards ZERO and KABBINADA KADLE @ least for Karnataka BJP.

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  • Bulsam, Mangalore

    Thu, Oct 13 2011

    Estranged ex-partner of Radia, Mr. Rao Dhiraj Singh had expressed that the lobbyist's rise was fuelled by senior BJP leader Ananth Kumar who, as a minister in the NDA regime, leaked classified Cabinet papers to Radia, then trying to establish herself. Dhiraj, who is said to have spent two years in jail for abducting Radia's son, also alleged that Ananth Kumar had a joint account with Radia in a Swiss bank, and that he, along with BJP president Nitin Gadkari, had helped her to influence the governments of Maharashtra and Karnataka to buy helicopters from her client. Dhiraj also alleged that the NDA government allotted land in New Delhi to Radia to build a trust named after her mother which was later inaugurated by BJP veteran L K Advani. Advani also inaugurated a temple built by another controversial trust of Swami Visheshwar Tirth, known as Pejavar Swami and Radia was among several important people who were present there.

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