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BENGALURU: The BJP appears to be falling again on its seasoned oarsman BS Yediyurappa making him a key ballot mascot, together with High Minister Narendra Modi, because it shores up its marketing campaign in poll-bound Karnataka.
The octogenarian, who has already introduced his retirement from electoral politics, is sought to be put at the pedestal via the governing birthday celebration’s central leaders.
The explanations don’t seem to be some distance to hunt as to why Yediyurappa has been driven to the highest of the marketing campaign plank, the four-time Leader Minister, who constructed the birthday celebration from the grassroots degree, has a mass attraction and attach — in particular the politically influential Lingayat neighborhood — that no different birthday celebration chief within the State instructions.
It is now reasonably obtrusive from the BJP’s marketing campaign narrative that the birthday celebration is banking at the “Yediyurappa issue” and striking him up because the “poster boy” via leveraging his clout to the hilt.
The BJP central management — High Minister Narendra Modi and Union House Minister Amit Shah, birthday celebration President J P Nadda and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh — were lavish of their reward of Yediyurappa, right through their public conferences within the State in contemporary days.
It is not frequently that during PM’s programme, any person else hogs the limelight, however on one such instance on February 27, at a public assembly in Shivamogga, it gave the impression that Modi himself was once giving the Karnataka BJP strongman a “pleasure of position” in his “Karma Bhoomi”.
The new public assembly marking the inauguration of the Shivamogga airport, coinciding with Yediyurappa’s eightieth birthday, noticed Modi terming his contributions to public existence ‘inspirational.’
The PM felicitated him on level as he made an attraction to the folks attending the general public assembly to flash their cell phone lighting fixtures in a gesture of honour to Yediyurappa and there was once an enthusiastic reaction from the massive collecting.
Then, because the Lingayat strongman concluded his speech, Modi stood up and applauded him.
The PM has additionally made it some extent again and again to focus on the final speech delivered via Yediyurappa within the Karnataka meeting lately, and mentioned it was once an inspiration to each particular person in public existence.
Amit Shah too at a public assembly lately recommended the folks to repose religion in Modi and Yediyurappa and vote the BJP again to energy within the State. Identical feedback were made via Nadda and Rajnath Singh, who had been lately within the state for campaigning.
In accordance to a couple political observers and BJP insiders, the birthday celebration’s transfer to venture Yediyurappa appears to be aimed toward blunting anti-incumbency, protecting the Lingayat vote base intact and countering the opposition Congress, which has levelled allegations of corruption in opposition to the federal government.
Political analyst A Narayana from the Azim Premji College mentioned the BJP was once to start with making ready to stand elections with out Yediyurappa in an energetic position however “as there was once now not a lot for the birthday celebration to depend on in the community, it was once inevitable for them to repackage and provide him”.
That is the reason they’re going out in their technique to turn out that they’ve now not angry him via asking to renounce as Leader Minister in 2021, he mentioned.
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“They (BJP) attempted their absolute best to protected Lingayat beef up with out Yediyurappa, however they aren’t very assured about it, that is the reason they’re doing it. They might have afforded to lose some Lingayat beef up, supplied they had been assured about cultivating beef up from any other communities, which additionally they are not very assured about,” Narayana mentioned.
Yediyurappa resigned as CM on July 26, 2021.
Age was once noticed as a number one issue for his go out from the highest task, with an unwritten rule within the BJP of protecting out the ones above 75 years from elected workplaces.
Additionally, the BJP central management sought after to make approach for brand spanking new management forward of the Meeting polls.
Not like the 2018 ballot marketing campaign, when Yediyurappa was once the CM candidate and face of the birthday celebration, the BJP this time has opted for a collective way, although it to start with attempted to venture Leader Minister Basavaraj Bommai’s management.
Narayana mentioned: “BJP attempted to win over Lingayats via Bommai, however they are not assured about having completed that, with the entire discontent brewing on problems similar to reservation.”
“Additionally so long as Yediyurappa is there and so long as he’s an unsatisfied guy, it’s not conceivable for every other Lingayat chief to domesticate Lingayat beef up”, he mentioned, including that that is reasonably clearly probably the most the explanation why BJP desires to stay Yediyrappa in just right spirits.
With the birthday celebration now striking Yediyurappa in the vanguard of the marketing campaign, Bommai’s stake turns out to have weakened, in step with ballot observers and a few inside the BJP, at the same time as a piece inside the birthday celebration credit him for pro-people schemes, reservation hike for SC/ST and for presenting an all-inclusive price range.
In keeping with every other birthday celebration functionary, protecting the Lingayat vote base, regardless of Yediyurappa now not being its CM face, is the most important for the BJP to win the election with an absolute majority, and that is the reason the explanation why the birthday celebration desires to guarantee the dominant neighborhood, that he’s nonetheless related to it.
He additionally pointed to disgruntlement amongst a piece of the Lingayat neighborhood, particularly the ‘Panchamasali Lingayats’ at the factor of reservation, and mentioned it is going to pose a danger, and it must be mitigated instantly.
“It needs to be communicated successfully that together with being the BJP’s best Parliamentary Board member, Yediyurappa remains to be the birthday celebration’s face or mascot in Karnataka,” he mentioned.
BJP State Normal Secretary N Ravi Kumar mentioned Yediyurappa is a large mass chief in Karnataka and he’s any person who constructed and nurtured the birthday celebration within the state.
“He’s a four-time CM and two-time Chief of Opposition, he is aware of corner and nook of the state, he’s the chief of all communities together with Lingayats, and humans from all sections admire him. He’s naturally projected as probably the most faces, what’s incorrect?” Ravi Kumar requested.
“There is also some quantity of anti-incumbency, I am not utterly rejecting it, all governments may have it, however Bommai has given a just right price range and has given just right programmes. It’s the advent of Congress, why did not they talk definitely about Yediyurappa thus far and are doing it now? this is because Congress’ technique is to draw sure public opinion about Yediyurappa of their favour,” he mentioned.
Yediyurappa too on his section had lately appealed to the dominant Veerashaiva-Lingayat neighborhood, to which he belongs, to proceed their beef up to the ruling BJP within the upcoming Meeting polls, and make sure its victory within the State.
This observation has come amid makes an attempt via the opposition Congress and JD(S) to venture that Yediyurappa is being sidelined via the BJP, as they sought to woo the numerically and politically dominant neighborhood.
Veerashaiva-Lingayats are estimated to shape about 17 in keeping with cent of the State’s inhabitants, and so they shape the BJP’s robust vote base.
Yediyurappa is thought of as to be the “tallest” Veerashaiva-Lingayat chief and continues to carry sway over the neighborhood. It seems that that the previous CM, in go back, is looking for to protected the political long term of his sons.
Whilst saying that he’s going to now not contest meeting polls, Yediyurappa in the similar breath had mentioned that he’s going to be vacating his Shikaripura Meeting seat, from the place his more youthful son and the birthday celebration’s state Vice-President B Y Vijayendra can be contesting, if the prime command is of the same opinion.
Yediyurappa, quickly after stepping down as CM in 2021, sought after to make Vijayendra Minister, in the course of the MLC direction however was once now not a hit in his makes an attempt. His elder son, B Y Raghavendra is a Member of Parliament from Shivamogga.
BENGALURU: The BJP appears to be falling again on its seasoned oarsman BS Yediyurappa making him a key ballot mascot, together with High Minister Narendra Modi, because it shores up its marketing campaign in poll-bound Karnataka.
The octogenarian, who has already introduced his retirement from electoral politics, is sought to be put at the pedestal via the governing birthday celebration’s central leaders.
The explanations don’t seem to be some distance to hunt as to why Yediyurappa has been driven to the highest of the marketing campaign plank, the four-time Leader Minister, who constructed the birthday celebration from the grassroots degree, has a mass attraction and attach — in particular the politically influential Lingayat neighborhood — that no different birthday celebration chief within the State instructions.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
It is now reasonably obtrusive from the BJP’s marketing campaign narrative that the birthday celebration is banking at the “Yediyurappa issue” and striking him up because the “poster boy” via leveraging his clout to the hilt.
The BJP central management — High Minister Narendra Modi and Union House Minister Amit Shah, birthday celebration President J P Nadda and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh — were lavish of their reward of Yediyurappa, right through their public conferences within the State in contemporary days.
It is not frequently that during PM’s programme, any person else hogs the limelight, however on one such instance on February 27, at a public assembly in Shivamogga, it gave the impression that Modi himself was once giving the Karnataka BJP strongman a “pleasure of position” in his “Karma Bhoomi”.
The new public assembly marking the inauguration of the Shivamogga airport, coinciding with Yediyurappa’s eightieth birthday, noticed Modi terming his contributions to public existence ‘inspirational.’
The PM felicitated him on level as he made an attraction to the folks attending the general public assembly to flash their cell phone lighting fixtures in a gesture of honour to Yediyurappa and there was once an enthusiastic reaction from the massive collecting.
Then, because the Lingayat strongman concluded his speech, Modi stood up and applauded him.
The PM has additionally made it some extent again and again to focus on the final speech delivered via Yediyurappa within the Karnataka meeting lately, and mentioned it was once an inspiration to each particular person in public existence.
Amit Shah too at a public assembly lately recommended the folks to repose religion in Modi and Yediyurappa and vote the BJP again to energy within the State. Identical feedback were made via Nadda and Rajnath Singh, who had been lately within the state for campaigning.
In accordance to a couple political observers and BJP insiders, the birthday celebration’s transfer to venture Yediyurappa appears to be aimed toward blunting anti-incumbency, protecting the Lingayat vote base intact and countering the opposition Congress, which has levelled allegations of corruption in opposition to the federal government.
Political analyst A Narayana from the Azim Premji College mentioned the BJP was once to start with making ready to stand elections with out Yediyurappa in an energetic position however “as there was once now not a lot for the birthday celebration to depend on in the community, it was once inevitable for them to repackage and provide him”.
That is the reason they’re going out in their technique to turn out that they’ve now not angry him via asking to renounce as Leader Minister in 2021, he mentioned.
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“They (BJP) attempted their absolute best to protected Lingayat beef up with out Yediyurappa, however they aren’t very assured about it, that is the reason they’re doing it. They might have afforded to lose some Lingayat beef up, supplied they had been assured about cultivating beef up from any other communities, which additionally they are not very assured about,” Narayana mentioned.
Yediyurappa resigned as CM on July 26, 2021.
Age was once noticed as a number one issue for his go out from the highest task, with an unwritten rule within the BJP of protecting out the ones above 75 years from elected workplaces.
Additionally, the BJP central management sought after to make approach for brand spanking new management forward of the Meeting polls.
Not like the 2018 ballot marketing campaign, when Yediyurappa was once the CM candidate and face of the birthday celebration, the BJP this time has opted for a collective way, although it to start with attempted to venture Leader Minister Basavaraj Bommai’s management.
Narayana mentioned: “BJP attempted to win over Lingayats via Bommai, however they are not assured about having completed that, with the entire discontent brewing on problems similar to reservation.”
“Additionally so long as Yediyurappa is there and so long as he’s an unsatisfied guy, it’s not conceivable for every other Lingayat chief to domesticate Lingayat beef up”, he mentioned, including that that is reasonably clearly probably the most the explanation why BJP desires to stay Yediyrappa in just right spirits.
With the birthday celebration now striking Yediyurappa in the vanguard of the marketing campaign, Bommai’s stake turns out to have weakened, in step with ballot observers and a few inside the BJP, at the same time as a piece inside the birthday celebration credit him for pro-people schemes, reservation hike for SC/ST and for presenting an all-inclusive price range.
In keeping with every other birthday celebration functionary, protecting the Lingayat vote base, regardless of Yediyurappa now not being its CM face, is the most important for the BJP to win the election with an absolute majority, and that is the reason the explanation why the birthday celebration desires to guarantee the dominant neighborhood, that he’s nonetheless related to it.
He additionally pointed to disgruntlement amongst a piece of the Lingayat neighborhood, particularly the ‘Panchamasali Lingayats’ at the factor of reservation, and mentioned it is going to pose a danger, and it must be mitigated instantly.
“It needs to be communicated successfully that together with being the BJP’s best Parliamentary Board member, Yediyurappa remains to be the birthday celebration’s face or mascot in Karnataka,” he mentioned.
BJP State Normal Secretary N Ravi Kumar mentioned Yediyurappa is a large mass chief in Karnataka and he’s any person who constructed and nurtured the birthday celebration within the state.
“He’s a four-time CM and two-time Chief of Opposition, he is aware of corner and nook of the state, he’s the chief of all communities together with Lingayats, and humans from all sections admire him. He’s naturally projected as probably the most faces, what’s incorrect?” Ravi Kumar requested.
“There is also some quantity of anti-incumbency, I am not utterly rejecting it, all governments may have it, however Bommai has given a just right price range and has given just right programmes. It’s the advent of Congress, why did not they talk definitely about Yediyurappa thus far and are doing it now? this is because Congress’ technique is to draw sure public opinion about Yediyurappa of their favour,” he mentioned.
Yediyurappa too on his section had lately appealed to the dominant Veerashaiva-Lingayat neighborhood, to which he belongs, to proceed their beef up to the ruling BJP within the upcoming Meeting polls, and make sure its victory within the State.
This observation has come amid makes an attempt via the opposition Congress and JD(S) to venture that Yediyurappa is being sidelined via the BJP, as they sought to woo the numerically and politically dominant neighborhood.
Veerashaiva-Lingayats are estimated to shape about 17 in keeping with cent of the State’s inhabitants, and so they shape the BJP’s robust vote base.
Yediyurappa is thought of as to be the “tallest” Veerashaiva-Lingayat chief and continues to carry sway over the neighborhood. It seems that that the previous CM, in go back, is looking for to protected the political long term of his sons.
Whilst saying that he’s going to now not contest meeting polls, Yediyurappa in the similar breath had mentioned that he’s going to be vacating his Shikaripura Meeting seat, from the place his more youthful son and the birthday celebration’s state Vice-President B Y Vijayendra can be contesting, if the prime command is of the same opinion.
Yediyurappa, quickly after stepping down as CM in 2021, sought after to make Vijayendra Minister, in the course of the MLC direction however was once now not a hit in his makes an attempt. His elder son, B Y Raghavendra is a Member of Parliament from Shivamogga.
