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Defiant Yeddyurappa blames Gowda, Ananth Kumar for BJP Karnataka crisis | BJP Karnataka strongman BS Yeddyurappa on Monday
blamed Chief Minister Sadananada Gowda and party general secretary Ananth Kumar for the present political turmoil in the state, and claimed to have the support
of 70 MLAs. Yeddyurappa also alleged that Members of the Legislative Assembly
who are close to him are being targeted. He also announced that he had deferred
taking a decision on resigning from the party and the Assembly. Yeddyurappa said
that Sadananda Gowda is not a responsible Chief Minister. "I am not to blamed.
Gowda and Ananth Kumar are responsible for the problems. Ananth Kumar wants to
be the Chief Minister of Karnataka. Gowda is not a responsible Chief Minister.
Gowda my be in power, but I have the support of 70 MLAs," Yeddyurappa told a press
conference here. Wanting Chief Minister Gowda to step down from his post, Yeddyurappa
said that his supporters have asked him not to leave the party. "There is no question
of quitting the BJP. My supporters have urged me not to quit. I am not quitting
the assembly," he said. Yeddyurappa, who holds the threat of resignation on his
party's head, further said that he has not dropped his demands. He said that over
40 MLAs were ready to quit the Assembly in his support. "I have not dropped my
demands, just postponed the decision. I have postponed the decision of resigning
from the assembly," he said. Yeddyurappa was forced to quit from his post of state
chief after the Lokayukta report indicted him in the illegal mining scam and also
for his alleged role in irregularities in allotment of prime land to his own kith
and kin. He has since then spent much of this year trying to flex political muscle
to arm-twist his party leadership into reinstating him. His comeback plans, however,
got a big jolt when the Supreme Court last week ordered a Central Bureau of Investigation
(CBI) probe against him for nepotism, illegal land acquisition and favoring top
mining companies. He had, however, then welcomed the probe, and expressed confidence that he would be exonerated of all the charges.
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