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Crisis in BJP takes centre stage at function

— Photo: Sampath Kumar G.P.

Achievement: Sericulturists who received prizes at a function in Bangalore on Thursday.

Bangalore: A programme organised by the Department of Sericulture here on Thursday ended up providing an opportunity for BJP Ministers and MLAs to put up a united front and assert that dissidence in the party has been quelled.

Even as the official programme to felicitate 92 sericulturists, who had come to the city from the districts was in progress, Minister for Transport R. Ashok and BJP MLA for Sagar, Belur Gopalakrishna, addressed an informal press conference to announce that “Mr. Yeddyurappa is the unquestionable leader” and that all partymen were “like brothers working together.”

Mr. Ashok described Energy Minister K.S. Eshwarappa, who had spoken against the Chief Minister, as a “senior and committed leader.”He said that the choice of Mr. Yeddyurappa’s son B.Y. Raghavendra for the Shimoga Lok Sabha seat was because he was a “party worker for 20 years.” To a question why the BJP leadership was going soft on the dissident activity by Bellary MLAs, the Minister said “they too” were with the party.

The presence of Mr. Gopalakrishna from Shimoga district gained significance as he had allegedly demanded Minister for Food and Civil Supplies H. Halappa’s resignation. The MLA, however, disassociated himself from the statement and said that he had only called for “introspection.” Asked if he was promised a berth in the Ministry, Mr. Gopalakrishna said: “There is no proposal. But I will not say no if I am offered one.”

The official function of the Sericulture Department had 92 farmers from all silk-producing districts of Karnataka being felicitated for getting best yields.

The best achiever this year was Jayamma T. Hullappa from Maragal village in Bangarpet taluk. Her yield was 1,076 kg of cocoons in one acre of land in one year. Farmers from 19 districts of Karnataka were felicitated.

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