Zeenews Bureau
New Delhi: Some of the rebel Karnataka BJP
MLAs staying in a hotel near Hyderabad International Airport
have claimed they have submitted their resignations to the
Assembly Speaker even as Karnataka CM BS Yeddyurappa sounded conciliatory notes.
Flashing a paper, which is purportedly to be his
resignation letter, one MLA Renukacharya said "We have signed
the letter and sent it to the Speaker.”
Another MLA Beluru Gopalakrishna said they have faxed
their resignation letters while two other MLAs B P Harish and
Bellubbi also made a similar claim.
The MLAs, however, remained tight lipped about the exact
number of rebel MLAs who put in their papers. They were also
unwilling to disclose the number of MLAs staying in the hotel
here.
Ready to meet some demands: Yeddyurappa
B S Yeddyurappa today said he is ready to accept some of the
demands of the dissident Reddy brothers and asserted he has
been assured by the leadership that he would continue in the
post.
"Yesterday I took the decision in accordance with the
interests of the Reddy brothers that Balighar (Principal
Secretary to the CM) be shifted. That I have accepted and
regarding the other demands also I have told our leaders that
I am ready to accept other things also," he told reporters.
He was replying to a question whether he would sack
Rural Development Minister Shoba Karandlaje, whose removal has
been demanded by the Reddy brothers.
Yeddyurappa said he was a disciplined soldier of the
party and he has met all the national leaders who have
"expressed confidence in me and told me to continue to focus
on my regular work."
Asked about the sudden departure of Tourism Minister
G Janardhana Reddy for Hyderabad from here, the Chief Minister
he had no knowledge about it and he would not not discuss
it.
Yeddyurappa dropped plans of returning to Bangalore as
he has been asked by the BJP leadership to stay put for a day
more.
"The national leadership has asked me to stay here for
24 hours to resolve the problem," he told reporters after a
meeting at the residence of senior leader L K Advani here.
Party President Rajnath Singh, Sushma Swaraj, Arun
Jaitley and M Venkaiah Naidu were among the other leaders
present at the meeting.
Meanwhile, rebel Karnataka Minister Gali
Janardhana Reddy tonight expressed the hope that "something
good will emerge" in the next two or three days in the current
crisis gripping the state's ruling BJP over leadership issue.
He said the BJP government in the state would survive its
five-year term.
"I was in Delhi for the last 3-4 days and met senior
leaders like Sushma Swaraj, Arun Jaitley and others for seven
or eight times. I have given them our opinions. I hope
something good will emerge on the leadership issue in the next
2-3 days," Reddy told newsmen on his arrival here from Delhi.
The Tourism Minister said he came to Hyderabad to
apprise his legislator colleagues about the developments in
New Delhi where the party central leadership was working hard
to end the revolt by a section of MLAs led by mining
magnate the Reddy brothers--Janardhan and Karunakar--against
chief minister B S Yeddyurappa's leadership.
Asked about the compromise formula being worked by the
BJP high command, Gali shot back: "Why do you say compromise?
I am hearing that only from the media".
He said they took this step (rebellion) only because his
brother Gali Karunakar Reddy, Karnataka Revenue Minister, was
"not allowed to discharge his duties in a free and fair
manner".
"After all this, we only hope that our party high command
will take steps in the interest of Karnataka’s development,”
Gali said.