Efforts to bring Yeddyurappa back to BJP gains pace

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Bangalore, June 27, 2013: The move to bring back former chief minister B S Yeddyurappa into BJP is gathering pace with a section of the party strongly pushing for it on the ground that it would boost their prospects in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls.

Several BJP leaders, led by former chief minister D V Sadananda Gowda, today met state unit president Prahalad Joshi to discuss the homecoming of Yeddyurappa, heading the fledgling Karnataka Janatha Party.

Former ministers Aravind Limbavali, Umesh Katti and Basavaraj Bommai have presented their views to Joshi regarding this, party sources said.

"A section of state BJP leaders have presented their views on the matter and I am going to convey it to BJP President Rajnath Singh and party central leadership through Thawar Chand Gehlot (party in-charge of Karnataka). The next course of action will depend on the central leadership’s decision," Joshi told reporters here.

Joshi said the party’s Core Committee on June 29 would take a decision on the return of Yeddyurappa to BJP. This was the first formal meeting of BJP leaders to discuss the return of Yeddyurappa to the saffron party.