New Delhi: Former BJP leader BS Yeddyurappa is set to appoint expelled party leader V Dhananjay as the interim president of his new party, the Karnataka Janata Paksha. Though the party has not yet been launched, Dhananjay will be appointed on Friday. Yeddyurappa will take over as party president on December 10, after he officially quits the BJP.
The disgruntled BJP strongman on Thursday termed the Jagadish Shettar ministry as 'a coalition government' supported by his loyalists. "....the fact is this is a coalition government. Everybody knows it", Yeddyurappa, who has spurned all efforts by the party to retain him in its fold, told reporters.
He also announced that he was advancing the scheduled launch date of his party by a day to December 9. "They (Government) have deliberately convened the (assembly) session from December 5 to 13 to prevent MLAs and Ministers from attending my rally at Haveri on December 10. Hence I have preponed the rally to December 9", he said. It is left to the BJP to act against MLAs and Ministers attending the rally, he added.
Yeddyurappa has been sulking ever since he was removed as Chief Minister in July last year after being indicted by the Lokaykta report on illegal mining. After his exit, he handpicked Sadananda Gowda, but some months Gowda had to make way for Shettar as Yeddyurappa insisted on his removal.
The Lingayat leader has been unhappy with the party's central top brass, which had refused to entertain him on his repeated attempts to stage a comeback as Chief Minister asking him to come clean on corruption charges. Yeddyurappa said the Executive Committee of his Karnataka Janata Party (KJP) would meet on Friday.
The meeting is likely to appoint office bearers and former union minister V Dhananjay Kumar in all probability will be appointed interim president.
(With additional information from PTI)
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