BANGALORE: Outgoing chief minister B S Yeddyurappa has a strong feeling that he was taken for granted by a section of party’s central leadership on two counts, which has made him to take a strong stance of not resigning from the post, atleast till Sunday afternoon.“First is that Yeddyurapa, during his meeting with the party’s central leadership, had told that such a situation and atmosphere must be created where he is seen as resigning voluntarily on his own and not asked to quit if the leadership feels that he is guilty. Secondly, he had made it clear that he is not in favour of Ananth Kumar or his known followers to succeed him. But on both these counts Yeddyurappa feels that the high command has ignored him. That is the reason why he has become adamant,” a leader, close to Yeddyurappa, confided with Express on Thursday.According to sources, Yeddyurappa had pleaded before the central leadership to study the Lokayukta report in detail and see if there is really any fresh points that nails him and give him time till Sunday afternoon after which he would resign on his own.“Yeddyurappa had told this during his night-long discussions in the residence of Nitin Gadkari. But minutes after Yeddyurappa landed in city from Delhi, the parliamentary board met and announced its decision in a press conference that the chief minister has to go. It was like late Rajiv Gandhi announcing the change of chief minister Veerendra Patil in a press conference in Bangalore Airport in November 1990. Is this the way to treat a chief minister who has been successful in terms of series of electoral victories? Who precipitated the decisions in Delhi, after Yeddyurappa left the capital? These are the questions Yeddyurappa is asking for which there has been no reply, which, in turn, has made him angry,” sources explained.On the issue of Ananth Kumar becoming Yeddyurappa’s successor, sources said that the latter had made it clear that he was not in favour of the former for reasons that were obvious.“Yeddyurappa has reliably learnt that the high command’s representatives have come with the mandate to make Ananth Kumar as his successor, which has enraged him,” sources said.BSY’s Revolt Has a PrecedentYeddyurappa is not the first leader in BJP to have revolted against the party high command. In Rajasthan, the then leader of the Opposition in the Assembly Vasundara Raje Scindia, too, refused to resign, even after being directed to do so by the party’s central leadership.The drama in Jaipur shifted to Delhi where the legislators supporting Scindia staged a dharna in front of the residence of party leader L K Advani. She continued to remain in the post for more than six months despite the party’s diktat and relented only after being made the all-India VP.
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