Daijiworld Media Network - Sullia (MS) 

Sullia, Aug 21: Due to a high drama that took place on the midnight of Monday, August 19, senior MLA of the district, who is elected for the sixth consecutive time, S Angara, missed the berth in the state cabinet. Cutting across party lines, people have expressed their rage on this matter. The prominent leaders of BJP of the taluk and other elected representatives have decided to resign en masse and they have sent a message in this regard to the party high command. 

When the BJP government was formed after the collapse of the coalition government in the state, the name of MLA S Angara was heard prominently for the position of cabinet minister. His name was there in the list that was sent to BJP national president Amit Shah too. Angara had got insider message that the said list was approved by the high command and he will get minister berth in the cabinet. So MLA Angara had made all the preparations to take oath of Tuesday, August 20. 

As the oath taking of Angara was confirmed unofficially, more than 300 leaders of the party and his family members had left for Bengaluru. Passes were made ready for several people to attend the oath taking ceremony. However, some of the lot got the news on the night of Monday itself, when they were on their way to Bengaluru, about the missed opportunity. So they had stayed back in Mysuru itself without going to Bengaluru. 

The Sullia BJP Mandala Samiti has called for an emergency meeting on August 21 to discuss this issue. A party leader has given the information that resignation en masse will also be decided in the meeting. 

Even the JD(S) and farmer unions have expressed their dissatisfaction for not making S Angara as the minister. Congress leaders of Sullia also have reacted that it is injustice that is meted out to the taluk of Sullia. BJP leaders and activists of Sullia have expressed their rage against the high command on social media.

Bengaluru report

Disgruntlement follows ministry expansion - effort to woo aspirants on

Several aspirants in the BJP are angry at not finding their names in the list of ministers. A few of them have also expressed unhappiness at being overlooked by the party leadership. 

As soon as the irate MLAs got together at one place and began to discuss the issue, chief minister, B S Yediyurappa, called them towards him and made an effort to calm them down. Former ministers and strong ministerial aspirants, Balachandra Jarkiholi and Umesh Katti, were among those who held discussions with Yediyurappa. Whether the anger has since died down would be known in a couple of days. 

A number of MLAs who lost in the race did not attend the swearing-in function. Some of the leaders like Umesh Katti, Balalchandra Jarkiholi, Murugesh Nirani, M P Renukacharya, Gulihatti Shekhar, Dattatreya Patil Revoor, Appachchu Ranjan and Angara were confident of joining the ministry today. It was apparent that some MLAs from Belagavi district were surprised and hurt at the elevation of Laxman Savadi to the ministry. They feel that Laxman Savadi, who was defeated in the assembly election and who was caught on camera watching porn video inside the assembly in the past, has been accommodated in the ministry for controlling the prominence of Umesh Katti and Jarkiholi families in Belagavi district. 

While Appacchu Ranjan, Gulihatti Shekhar and Tippareddy expressed anger at not being made ministers, Umesh Katti, Balachandra Jarkiholi, Murugesh Nirani and others claimed that they are not unhappy. State BP in-charge, Muraleedhar Rao, who visited the residence of Yediyurappa, began an exercise to quell the dissidence. At the CM's behest, he met Jarkiholi and Renukacharya in order to pacify them. The fact that several MLAs deprived of ministerial positionx met again and held discussions made the party leadership jittery. However, with Umesh Katti meeting the CM at night and discussing the issue, the dissidence seems to have come under control to some extent.