Bengaluru: Even as Lingayat strongman and BJP State President B S Yeddyurappa may seem like the one having support from an outset, the hustle-bustle in the rebel faction led by opposition leader in the Legislative Council KS Eshwrappa is leaving eyebrows raised.
Believe it or not, Eshwarappa is surely not the underdog, even when he looks like one in this entire episode of fallout with the BJP.
Reliable sources say that most of the BJP loyalists, specifically ones with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh background are standing behind Eshwarappa and in a bid to not make their inclination obvious and to specifically hide the same from BSY, these leaders have been meeting the rebel group late in the night.
According to the sources on Wednesday, former state BJP unit president, MP, staunch RSS activist Prahlad Joshi had met former minister Sogadu Shivanna, a member of KS Eshwarappa led faction at 2 am!. This meeting reportedly continued for more than one hour. Many BSY supporters allege that Joshi met Sogadu Shivanna to offer tactical support instead of dousing the fire.
“Why a former state unit president must meet a rebel leader at 2 am? if it was a genuine meeting he should have met him in the daytime,” pointed a leader.
But Joshi has clarified that he was in Tumakuru on Wednesday to attend a party convention and as Sogadu Shivanna was a senior party leader he met him at his residence and hence there was no need to attach any other colour to the meeting.
However, another incident of a Kannada newspaper, considered to be a mouthpiece of the RSS covering the rebel convention as a lead story in its Bengaluru edition made way to rumours that the RSS is standing behind K S Eshwarappa.
