By agreeing to drop two of his controversial aides on Thursday night under pressure from the party high command, the BJP chief minister of Karnataka B S Yeddyurappa can be said to have saved his government.
The Reddy brothers have not yet formally sealed the deal and they are expected to do so late Friday, thus prolonging the agony of India’s main opposition hit by internal haemorrhage since its rout in May election to Parliament.
Both sides to K’taka dispute are economical on details. But the compromise to end the two week long impasse was reached at a meeting attended by the chief minister and the Reddy brothers with central leaders here – L K Advani, the besmirched patriarch, Rajnath Singh, the party chief who has earned the sobriquet of ‘Alice in Blunderland’, and seniors Venkaiah Naidu, Arun Jaitley and a couple of others.
Naidu while sounding confident said the crisis would be over in two days – a time frame probably needed to make the loose ends to be tied –like resignations and some face saver for the Reddy brothers who had pitched their demand very high at the very outset by calling for the scalp of chief minister.
Under the deal that has been stuck, Yeddyurappa will shut out of his office Principal Secretary V P Baligar. The Rural Development minister Shobha Karandlaje (46) will be dropped. She is accused of acting as defacto chief minister and interfering in working of other ministers.
Yeddyurappa plans to accommodate his most favourite minister in the party organisation, most probably as the president of the Karnataka BJP. If he succeeds to have his way, that may herald another crisis to his government as a large section of party MLAs are openly opposed to her.
-Asian Tribune -
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