Yeddy will not leave BJP – C. T. Ravi

Mangalore Today News Network

Mangalore, Oct 23, 2012: DK District-in-charge Minister C. T. Ravi said that B. S. Yeddyurappa, former chief minister of Karnataka, must re-think his decision to quit the BJP and start another political party, adding that he is quite confident that BSY will not leave. 

Addressing the press on Tuesday, the minister said that it is too early to say what the BJP would do without BSY, adding that he is sure Yeddy will not quit. Speaking about B. S. Yeddyurappa’s role in the BJP, he said that he had always advised BJP workers against betraying the BJP and had stated that betraying one’s party is like betraying one’s own mother. He said that he is sure that BSY will not quit the BJP. 

Since the BJP is a cadre-based party, any party worker can become a leader, he stated. Since BSY climbed from the position of mere party worker to the chief minister of Karnataka in 35 years, he cannot say that the BJP has been unjust to him. In fact, the BJP has supported BSY in his toughest times, he said, adding that the BJP made Yeddyurappa the state president, the leader of the opposition in assembly, and the deputy chief minister. If BSY thinks about his journey to the post of CM, he will not leave the party, he asserted. 

Turning his attention to Sonia Gandhi’s speech delivered on the occasion of inaugurating the centenary celebrations of Kudroli Temple, he said that her allegations of the state government misappropriated the central government’s funds is only an attempt to cover up the Congress-led UPA government’s mistakes. 

Further, he said that Mrs. Gandhi has done nothing for the state, in which case her demands that the state government must give an account of the Rs. 80,000 crore given to it by the centre is just an attempt to cover up her own mistakes. Stating that it is the CAG, which ought to demand transaction details, he said that the funds given to the state belong not to the Congress, but to the tax payer. He said that the state will give accounts only at the time of elections. 

C. T. Ravi also accused the central government of misusing tax payers’ money and demanded that the Congress must give details of black money stashed in Swiss accounts. Reminding the Congress that it had promised to bring back black money to the country within 100 days of being elected to power, he said that the Congress has not kept its promises even 1,200 days after coming to power. PM Manmohan Singh is helpless because a lot of this black money belongs to the Nehru – Gandhi family, which is why the central government has suppressed Anna Hazare and Baba Ramdev. 

Regarding Mrs. Gandhi’s statement that the state government could have raised the cap on LPG to 9 cylinders, he demanded to know why the centre had introduced the cap in the first place.