The BJP on Monday expelled rebel leader KS Eshwarappa for six years for violating party discipline and contesting Lok Sabha the polls as an independent candidate.
The former deputy chief minister, who also served as president of the party’s state unit, entered the election fray, blaming BJP state president BY Vijayendra and his father and veteran party leader BS Yediyurappa for denying his son, KE Kantesh, the ticket for the presidency. Haveri contest.
Former chief minister Basavaraj Bommai won the BJP’s Haveri ticket, while Vijayendra’s brother and Raghavendra MP is the BJP’s candidate from Shimoga.
“By ignoring the party’s instructions, you are contesting as a rebel candidate from Shimoga Lok Sabha constituency, causing embarrassment to the party. This is a violation of party discipline,” state disciplinary committee chairman Lingaraj Patil said in the expulsion order.
It said: “So, you have been relieved of all responsibilities and have been expelled from the party for six years, with immediate effect.”
Eshwarappa, 75, remained firm in his decision to contest, dismissive of the party leaders’ efforts to pacify him. He had even filed nomination of him as an independent candidate.
The party’s decision to expel the former opposition leader in the Legislative Council came on the last day of withdrawal of candidature for the second phase of the Lok Sabha elections in Karnataka on May 7.
Eshwarappa, along with Yediyurappa and the late HN Ananth Kumar, is widely credited with building the BJP from the grassroots in Karnataka.
Stating that the party in the state is in the clutches of its parliamentary board member Yediyurappa and his family, with his only son as an MP and his other son Vijayendra as an MLA, and BJP state president Eshwarappa, has repeatedly accused Yediyurappa of marginalizing those who embraced the cause of Hindutva like Nalin Kumar Kateel, Pratap Simha, CT Ravi and DV Sadananda Gowda.
However, he stressed that he is not against Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Before last year’s Assembly elections, opting out of the contest, he had asked the central leadership of the party that he wanted to retire from electoral politics and had asked it not to consider fielding him in any constituency.
Modi then called Eshwarappa and spoke to him through a video call and expressed gratitude for his decision to retire from electoral politics, as per the party’s instructions.
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