New Delhi: Former Chief Minister of Karnataka BS Yediyurappa exuded confidence in gaining his community’s complete support to the BJP even as top Lingayat leader Jagadish Shettar quit the party.
BS Yediyurappa said the community he belongs to remains "101 percent" with the BJP, according to NDTV.
Responding to Shettar’s switching of party, Yediyurappa, who previously quit electoral politics, said Shettar ‘made a mistake’ by leaving the BJP.
Shettar, who was upset after having been dropped from the BJP’s list of candidates for assembly polls, joined the Congress earlier this week.
Yediyurappa reportedly said that the BJP had promised Shettar Rajya Sabha membership and ministerial berth at the Centre.
‘We made him Speaker, minister, gave him almost all important opportunities. I told him not to leave the party,’ NDTV quoted Yediyurappa as saying.
Yediyurappa, 80, still remains as the major voice of the BJP in the state, while enjoying the support of his community as well.
Shettar, a major Lingayat leader like Yediyurappa, left the BJP leadership of the state in dismay after he quit the party.
However, Yediyurappa exuded confidence in the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah saying that the BJP is going to get an absolute majority to form the government in the state.