May 30. 1: 50 pm. That marked a new beginning for the Bharatiya Janata Party in Karnataka. It was then that Bookanakere Siddalingappa Yeddyurappa was sworn in the 25th chief minister of Karnataka, marking a new saffron dawn in South India. To mark the historic occasion, top party leaders such as L K Advani, Rajnath Singh, Narendra Modi, Venkaiah Naidu, Arun Jaitley were present even as a crowd of 75,000 cheered them on. Twenty-nine other MLAs were also sworn in as m
Bookanakere Siddalingappa Yeddyurappa has navigated the choppy waters of politics with the consummate ease of a seasoned oarsman, defying tidal waves of adversity
'The message they want to send to the country is that they can do anything by hook or crook'
'This minority government will be for only 15 days.' 'By that time, its motion of confidence will be defeated, and it will have to resign.' 'Therefore, the swearing-in is a waste of money, energy and time.'
The 75-year-old Lingayat leader broke his own record of the most short-lived head of government in Karnataka.
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'The leaders of the two parties, the rank and file, and even their respective vote banks are passionately opposed to each other.' 'At the top, between the leaders, it is personal, bitter and hostile.' 'This was not going to work. Everyone knew it.'
'The BJP was looking at one or two disgruntled guys to see whether it can destabilise the government.' 'When the BJP does not win a state, it uses these back hand methods.'
'Who's providing all this money to the BJP? And who's providing all this money to the Congress?' 'Where did all this money come from?' 'Who is enabling all these MLAs to be bought for Rs 50, 60 crores?' 'There's one MLA on whose behalf somebody claimed that the BJP invited him for Rs 60 crores. Whose money is this?'
'Hindu voters in coastal Karnataka lean more towards Hindutva than Hinduism which explains why the Siddaramaiah government's perception as anti-Hindu worked wonders for the BJP in coastal Karnataka.'
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