It took him four decades of toil and vigil to catapult the BJP to power in Karnataka. today he feels shortchanged reports Kumar Buradikutti
It was February 19 this year. Two ministers had already been caught watching porn clippings in the Karnataka Assembly and the issue was blown ‘out of proportion by the media’. Some media representative in Shimoga compelled Yeddyurappa to respond on the issue and he literally blew hot and cold at the media: “Everybody watches them. Don’t you watch them at home?” The thing is that all the Porngate accused happened to be his supporters!
There was another incident in March 2011. BJP general secretary Ananth Kumar and BJP state unit president KS Eeswharappa, both being his rivals in the party from day one, were holding a meeting with some 57 rebel BJP MLAs in the party office in Bangalore without the knowledge of the then CM Yeddyurappa. Somehow the CM came to know about it. The next moment, he breezed through the meeting and breezed out, anger overflowing on his face. Media representatives blocked his car just as he was about to leave. Suddenly, an angry Yeddy hit his car driver in front of media representatives and their cameras.
Yeddyurappa has always been seen in two extremes: either emitting fury like the above two instances or crying like an abandoned child on the street.
Supporters of Yeddyurappa worship him. A highly ambitious angry young man cherishing in his heart a dream of political revolution roams village after village on his motorcycle, organises the masses, brings them into the fold of his party that then had little or no impact on state politics with its negligible presence, gradually builds the party with strong cadre force at the grassroots level, becomes his party’s first elected representative in the lower house of the Karnataka Legislature, becomes the party’s first Leader of Opposition in the state assembly and finally, after four decades of such efforts, brings his party to power and becomes the chief minister of the first BJP government in South India. But how long was he allowed to hold on to the CM’s seat? Just three years! Forty years of party-building and three years as chief minister! And no hope for future as well. This is, perhaps, the source of his anger and desperation – and of his supporters too.
Another important reason for his anger is that he had never been allowed to function and do what he wanted as the CM. He faced three-dimensional attacks throughout his tenure: firstly from his own party men who used to gang up on him on a monthly basis; secondly from HD Kumaraswamy of JD(S) who literally haunted him as a nightmare by unearthing one land scam after another on weekly basis involving Yeddy and thirdly from HR Bharadwaj, who left no stone unturned to threaten to dissolve the assembly and impose President's rule using his constitutional power as the Governor of the state. No chief minister, perhaps, has ever faced such multi-pronged attacks in the history of Karnataka. The second and third aspects can be understood and tolerated. What made him particularly furious was the fact that his own party men tried their best to pull him down more than any of the Opposition parties and eventually succeeded in their efforts.
There was another incident in March 2011. BJP general secretary Ananth Kumar and BJP state unit president KS Eeswharappa, both being his rivals in the party from day one, were holding a meeting with some 57 rebel BJP MLAs in the party office in Bangalore without the knowledge of the then CM Yeddyurappa. Somehow the CM came to know about it. The next moment, he breezed through the meeting and breezed out, anger overflowing on his face. Media representatives blocked his car just as he was about to leave. Suddenly, an angry Yeddy hit his car driver in front of media representatives and their cameras.
Yeddyurappa has always been seen in two extremes: either emitting fury like the above two instances or crying like an abandoned child on the street.
Supporters of Yeddyurappa worship him. A highly ambitious angry young man cherishing in his heart a dream of political revolution roams village after village on his motorcycle, organises the masses, brings them into the fold of his party that then had little or no impact on state politics with its negligible presence, gradually builds the party with strong cadre force at the grassroots level, becomes his party’s first elected representative in the lower house of the Karnataka Legislature, becomes the party’s first Leader of Opposition in the state assembly and finally, after four decades of such efforts, brings his party to power and becomes the chief minister of the first BJP government in South India. But how long was he allowed to hold on to the CM’s seat? Just three years! Forty years of party-building and three years as chief minister! And no hope for future as well. This is, perhaps, the source of his anger and desperation – and of his supporters too.
Another important reason for his anger is that he had never been allowed to function and do what he wanted as the CM. He faced three-dimensional attacks throughout his tenure: firstly from his own party men who used to gang up on him on a monthly basis; secondly from HD Kumaraswamy of JD(S) who literally haunted him as a nightmare by unearthing one land scam after another on weekly basis involving Yeddy and thirdly from HR Bharadwaj, who left no stone unturned to threaten to dissolve the assembly and impose President's rule using his constitutional power as the Governor of the state. No chief minister, perhaps, has ever faced such multi-pronged attacks in the history of Karnataka. The second and third aspects can be understood and tolerated. What made him particularly furious was the fact that his own party men tried their best to pull him down more than any of the Opposition parties and eventually succeeded in their efforts.
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