Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (SP)
Bengaluru, Oct 1: Chief minister B S Yediyurappa's claim of doing a 'tight rope walk' in running the government has evoked comments from his friends and foes alike. As the BJP leaders and opposition parties began making their own analysis about the statement, BJP leaders stepped in and asked the party leaders not to make any comments on the issue, either negative or positive.
Former chief minister Siddaramaiah said that he feels pity for Yediyurappa and advised the chief minister to resign if he finds it difficult to handle the post. "The party leaders have clipped his wings. He is a weak chief minister," he ridiculed. H D Kumaraswamy went a step further and asked Yediyurappa to have a glance at the plight of the flood-affected people from above the rope and try to improve their condition. He said that if does not do so, the people will bring him down from the rope.
(From L to R): Siddaramaiah, H D Kumaraswamy and B S Yediyurappa
Minister V Somanna said that Yediyurappa is under tremendous pressure because of various responsibilities he has to discharge, R Ashok said he does not know under what circumstances the chief minister had said so. Eshwarappa said that Yediyurappa had expressed what he has felt. Deputy chief ministers Laxman Savadi and Govind Karjol, said that his statement has been wrongly understood. Union minister Prahlad Joshi, felt that there is no need to assign any special meaning to what Yediyurappa had said.
It came as a surprise that Yediyurappa, in spite of his statement going for a toss and various people making different comments on it, chose to ignore them and stay away from all kinds of controversies.
Some of Yediyurappa's supporters feel that the party's effort to have a hold over the government through state president, Nalin Kumar Kateel, and instruction issued to him to discuss with top leaders even less important issues before taking any decision on any issue, have created tension in the chief minister's mind as a result of which he would have termed his condition as tight rope walk.