In Karnataka, battle lies drawn for BJP polls as chief Vijayendra faces Yatnal challenge

A time later, erstwhile curate Kumar Bangarappa who is simply a cardinal adjutant of Yatnal, said an authoritative announcement of candidates from their campy would beryllium made connected January 31 — indicating that the decks mightiness person been cleared for Yatnal.

The factionalism wrong the Karnataka BJP portion has intensified implicit the past fewer weeks. After a BJP halfway committee gathering held past week, erstwhile curate B Sriramulu attacked Vijayendra and said the existent BJP president had not backed him erstwhile helium was allegedly facing attacks from BJP wide caput Radha Mohan Das Agrawal implicit the party’s decision successful a bypoll successful the Sandur constituency past November.

In the election, the Congress’s E Annapoorna defeated the BJP’s B Hanumanthu by 9,000 votes. Hanumanthu and Sriramulu are some from the Bellary territory and are adjacent aides.

After the meeting, erstwhile Union curate D V Sadananda Gowda dubbed Vijayendra an “ad hoc leader” and claimed an “official president” would look soon. Gowda said, “When discharging his work arsenic president, helium (Vijayendra) did not win successful taking the campy opposed to him into confidence.”

Chikkaballapur MP K Sudhakar besides took connected Vijayendra publically Wednesday. “He is taking nary of the leaders into confidence. Apart from destroying the enactment successful the state, helium is trying to decorativeness maine disconnected politically,” helium told a quality conference. Sudhakar besides charged that helium was not consulted during the enactment of office-bearers successful Chikkaballapur.

Sudhakar, who was curate successful the erstwhile BJP government, said helium would instrumentality his complaints to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah. “Vijayendra cannot beryllium compared to his begetter Yediyurappa. He is aggravated with maine due to the fact that I worked with (MP and erstwhile CM) Basavaraj Bommai,” helium said.

Seen arsenic politically “inexperienced”, Vijayendra was appointed the BJP authorities president successful November 2023, aft the party’s decision successful the May 2023 Karnataka Assembly polls. He replaced Nalin Kumar Kateel, superseding respective elder leaders, a determination that did not spell down good with galore successful the BJP.

Elections for the authorities BJP president are expected to beryllium held successful the period of February aft the predetermination process for the territory BJP units is completed. While it is not a precedent, the anticipation of an predetermination was indicated earlier this period by Union Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan who is successful complaint of organisational polls successful the state. The archetypal denotation that determination was going to beryllium a conflict was seen close aft Vijayendra became president, erstwhile Yatnal said his enactment could not beryllium accepted.