Confident about partymen’s satisfaction with my style of functioning, says Karnataka BJP president B.Y. Vijayendra-OxBig News Network

Karnataka BJP president B.Y. Vijayendra has expressed confidence that the party workers, seniors, and central leaders were satisfied with his style of functioning.

Fielding reporters’ questions on the speculation over a change of leadership in the party’s State unit, Mr. Vijayendra said that he had unrelentingly led the party’s campaign against the “corrupt” Congress government in the State for the last one and a half years. A large number of party workers had taken to the streets, and held protests to expose the Congress government in the State, he said.

While pointing out that the BJP was a national party, and any decision taken by the central leaders will be abided by all partymen, Mr. Vijayendra said that party workers and seniors in the State as well as the central leaders were satisfied with his style of functioning.

Mr. Vijayendra said that the credit for the resignation of B. Nagendra as the Minister for Tribal Welfare, Sports and Youth Affairs over his alleged involvement in the misappropriation of ₹170 crore from the Scheduled Tribe Welfare Development Corporation went to the BJP. “It was because of the struggle of the BJP that the Minister was forced to resign,” he claimed.

He also recalled the padayatra undertaken by the party over alleged irregularities in the allotment of sites by Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA) to Chief Minister Siddaramaiah’s wife. Mr. Siddaramaiah’s reported direction to his wife to surrender the 14 sites to MUDA without compensation were on account of the pressure mounted on him by the BJP, Mr. Vijayendra claimed.

The Karnataka BJP president further claimed that All India Congress Committee (AICC) general secretary Randeep Surjewala was camping in Bengaluru and speaking to MLAs in a bid to prepare the ground for Mr. Siddaramaiah’s resignation as Chief Minister.

He referred to Mr. Siddaramaiah’s recent appointment as head of AICC’s Other Backward Classes (OBC) Advisory Council as the Congress high command’s move to shift the Chief Minister to national politics.

When his attention was drawn to the Chief Minister’s Economic Advisor Basavaraj Rayareddi’s reported appeal to the people to give up the guarantee schemes if it favoured the development of roads in rural areas, Mr. Vijayendra said that Mr. Rayareddi as the Chief Minister’s Economic Advisor was fully aware about the financial condition of the government.

He claimed that the State government was not able to pay salaries to its employees because its finances were in a precarious condition, and said that it was “shameful” on the part of the government, which came to power on the promise of guarantees.