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| Yeddyurappa resigns as Karnataka CM |
| Yeddyurappa resigns as Karnataka Chief Minister
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| INDIA
, 31-July-2011
12:10:37 PM |
| BS Yeddyurappa has finally resigned as the Chief Minister of Karnataka. The show of muscle continued till the end as Mr Yeddyurappa walked to the Raj Bhavan this evening, flanked by 70 MLAs, to hand over his resignation to Governor HR Bhardwaj. Minutes later, a Raj Bhavan statement said the resignation had been accepted.
Sources have told NDTV that the process to select the new Chief Minister will begin soon.
Mr Yeddyurappa and the man he wants as the next Chief Minister, Sadananda Gowda, met central BJP leaders Rajnath Singh and Arun Jaitley. Sources have told NDTV that Mr Gowda is the frontrunner for the job. In fact, one of the main conditions that Mr Yeddyurappa set for stepping down was to have his candidate take over from him.
Addressing the media soon after resigning, Mr Yeddyurappa said, "As a disciplined leader of the party, I have stepped down as the Chief Minister. I served as CM for three years and two months; MLAs, MPs gave me full support during this period. I do hope and believe that my successor will also get the same support."
The new Chief Minister will take the state forward, he added.
Sadananda Gowda, a non-controversial man and a known Yeddyurappa loyalist, is not a Lingayat like Yeddyurappa, but a Vokkaliga - another dominant group in Karnataka.
Mr Yeddyurappa's exit came after he and his family were strongly indicted by Karnataka Lokayukta Justice Santosh Hegde in his report on illegal mining on Wednesday. The report kicked up a political furore with the BJP finally deciding that Yeddyurappa's continuance as Chief Minister had become untenable. (Read: Justice Hegde's report on illegal mining)
Earlier in the day, Mr Yeddyurappa's resignation was preceded by high drama when he suddenly put forward another condition - that the BJP announce the name of his successor before he demitted office. The BJP, on the other hand, wanted him to resign before announcing the name of the new Chief Minister.
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