No one will leave party: Ex-Karnataka CM Yediyurappa amid speculation of MLA breakaway
Aug 18, 2023
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], August 18 : Former Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa assured that no one will leave the party and all the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLAs are "intact" with the party.
"No one will leave the party, all are intact with us. There are one or two people. We have spoken to them also. I believe no one will leave the party," BS Yediyurappa said. This comes amid speculations of a few BJP MLAs likely to shift to the Congress.
In an attack on the Karnataka government, the former Chief Minister said, "The state government in Karnataka is floated in corruption, we have discussed the same in the meeting today."
Yediyurappa said that on Wednesday (August 23) more than five to six thousand people will stage a protest to make the people aware of corruption in the state.
Accusing the Siddaramaiah government of running a transfer racket in the state, Yediyurappa said, "There is a transfer racket happening, officials are been instructed to give a certain amount of money every month."
Further attacking the state government, the senior BJP leader said, "It is a kind of a dictatorship government, they are threatening the media and the social media cell of the BJP and harassing them. Ahead of the BBMP (Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike) election, they are bifurcating the party according to their whims and fancies."
The former Chief Minister accused the state government of stopping all development work. "Development work stopped completely...This government has become bankrupt, they are not releasing funds. No work is happening. I am asking the CM and Deputy CM to show me whether any road work is happening. They are busy with corruption, that is why we have decided to protest," Yediyurappa said.
Speaking about the protest by the BJP against the Siddaramaiah government, Yediyurappa said, "We gave them time, it's over now. We'll keep protesting. All who were here participated in the protest."
