By Munibar Barui
On July 26, 2021 B.S. Yediyurappa gave his resignation to the newly instated Governor of Karnataka Thawar Chand Gehlot. He handed over his resignation after two years serving as the CM of Karnataka after replacing the then CM H.D. Kumaraswamy. The Governor of Karnataka accepted his resignation, and now he is resuming command up until the new CM takes oath.
He had previously served as the chief minister for a week in November 2007 and again for three years from 2008 to 2011. After allegations of corruption against him, he had resigned in July 2011.In 2018, he took charge as the Chief Minister for two days before his government was toppled by the JD(S)-Congress coalition. In 2019, he managed to form a BJP government in the state after seventeen MLAs from the Congress and JD(S) resigned and joined the BJP to support Yediyurappa.
Nonetheless, B.S. Yediyurappa’s replacement hasn’t been announced yet by the party high command yet. But Yediyurappa said that the party leaders will decide the next CM soon. He also stressed that no one had forced him to quit and it was his decision to step down. The former chief minister had himself hinted at stepping down earlier this month after talks with senior BJP leaders, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP president J.P. Nadda.
As a reaction to this incidence, current Leader of Opposition and former CM of Karnataka Siddaramaiah observed that “the power politics” in BJP is unfortunate when people are suffering due to natural calamities. Furthermore, he observed in tweets that BJP government in Karnataka was “illegitimate as it was born out of defection and corruption, the main opposition party wondered whether changing the face would also change the government’s ‘diabolical character’. “There is no benefit for the common man if one corrupt CM is removed to make another corrupt as CM. In its place, the whole BJP party, which is responsible for the miseries of people, should be ousted as per Siddaramaiah. In current context, the BJP national general secretary and Karnataka in-charge Arun Singh declined to comment on the next chief minister after the resignation of B.S. Yediyurappa, saying the decision is left to the party’s parliamentary board and BJP legislature party.”I will not say now.The parliamentary board of the BJP will decide the next chief minister and in the legislature party meeting,” Singh told PTI reporters in New Delhi.