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BJP demands Ravindra's ouster

Madikeri: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) functionaries from Virajpet taluk have urged the party's State leadership to dismiss Kodagu BJP president M.M. Ravindra from the post for allegedly tarnishing the image of the party.

Speaking to presspersons here on Saturday, Chendanda Naveen, a member of the State committee of the party, said if Mr Ravindra did not resign from the post, BJP workers would launch an agitation to remove him.

He alleged that Mr. Ravindra had spoken (to a TV channel) in a manner that affected the prospects of Madikeri MLA M.P. Appachu Ranjan from getting a ministerial berth during the recent Cabinet reshuffle. Mr. Ravindra had also taken the BJP members to task for holding press conferences here demanding the inclusion of Mr. Ranjan in the Cabinet.

Accusation

Shuja Kushalappa, president of the Virajpet taluk Akrama-Sakrama samiti, accused Mr. Ravindra of indulging in groupism right from the day he became the Kodagu unit president.

Mr. Ranjan, a three-time MLA from Kodagu, belonged to the Kodava community and Mr. Ravindra did not want him to become a minister, he remarked.

Other members Ramesh Ponnanna, Ratnakar Shetty and Raghu Nanaiah pointed out that Mr. Ravindra had issued a statement at the recent ‘Desha Sabhe' convened by the Akhila Kodava Samaja in Ponnampet that all Kodava associations should support the candidature of Mr. Ranjan for a Cabinet berth. How could he go back on his words, they asked.

Mr. Kushalappa stated that BJP had won all three Assembly constituencies when Mr. Ranjan was the party's Kodagu unit president in 1994.

The BJP had maintained its stranglehold even after Kodagu was reduced to two constituencies after delimitation. Therefore, the demand of the workers to make Mr. Ranjan a minister was justified, he added.

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