Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (SP)
Bengaluru, Jun 6: In a programme organized on Wednesday June 5 here to felicitate the party's victorious Lok Sabha members from the state, BJP state president, B S Yeddyurappa, and BJP state in-charge, Muralidhar Rao, gave an open invitation to disgruntled leaders from other parties to join BJP by saying that the doors of their party are open for them. "Those who join us are sure to register victories. This has been proved in the case of Umesh Jadhav," they stated.
Their statements have come in the wake of information that six Congress legislators led by Ramesh Jarkiholi are preparing to take a plunge and join the saffron party on June 9. The Congress, by postponing the ministry expansion indefinitely, has further earned the disgruntlement of some senior leaders.
On this occasion, replying to Siddaramaiah's charge that the BJP has failed to accommodate Dalits in the union cabinet, Yeddyurappa challenged him to elevate deputy chief minister, Parameshwara, to the post of the chief minister. He said that seven of BJP's MPs have been elected from reserved constituencies and that he and Sadananda Gowda had met Narendra Modi and discussed this aspect with him. He ridiculed Kumaraswamy for coming out with the gimmick of village stay after staying in a luxury hotel for a year. He Charged the chief minister and other ministers of failing to visit drought-hit regions of the state so far. He also said that the promises Kumaraswamy made during his previous village stays have not been met.
At the same time, another angry senior Congressman, H K Patil, who is said to be an aspirant for ministerial berth, and who has been fighting tooth and nail the decision of the government to sell large tracts of land to Jindal steel, wrote another four-page letter to minister, K J George, who he claimed, had given false and misleading statement to the people relating to this transaction. He pointed out that a case about over Rs 2,000 crore due from Jindal company is pending in the court and therefore said that the government's initiative to favour the company at this juncture has given rise to doubts.