PM Modi rally in Shivamogga on Monday, miffed Eshwarappa decides to stay off
Narendra Modi will address his second campaign rally in Karnataka on Monday. The BJP leaders are trying their best to buy peace with the veteran leader from the region, KS Eshwarappa, as he has decided to stay off the Modi rally in a show of rebellion against parliamentary board member BS Yediyurappa.
Eshwarappa, a senior Kuruba leader and a former state president, has not budged an inch from his decision to contest as an independent against BY Raghavendra (50), the son of BSY.
BJP leader N Ravikumar, however, claimed they had invited Eshwarappa, and he would be there at the rally. The party said it would expect about 2.5 lakh people to attend the event, and JDS leaders would share the dais with the PM. The BJP is holding its campaign rally at the assembly constituency Eshwarappa previously represented.
The senior leader gave the slip when national general secretary Radha Mohan Das Agarwal visited his house in Shivamogga on Sunday. Agarwal left the place without success after waiting for some time for Eshwarappa to return.
The former deputy CM has been miffed over denial of ticket to his son KE Kantesh from Haveri. Holding Yediyurappa responsible for this, he began his election campaign on Sunday. The party is said to have promised a ticket to Kantesh for the upcoming legislative council polls from the graduates’ constituency, but Eshwarappa apparently has not been happy with the offer.
The senior leader has vowed to defeat Raghavendra, son of Yediyurappa, to save the Karnataka unit of BJP from the clutches of
