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RSS’s Organiser bids to set BJP in order

After Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) rout in the recently concluded Karnataka assembly elections, speculation has been rife that former chief minister of state B S Yeddyurappa, who was responsible for the decline of BJP in the southern state, might return to the party now.

Though BJP has been stating that it has made no overtures to get Yeddyurappa back in the party fold, the latest edition of Organiser, the weekly magazine of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), has come out in defence of the BSY, who was removed as the CM after corruption charges levelled against him.

 ‘The former chief minister of Karnataka charged with corruption, BS Yeddyurappa is a good man.  He didn’t receive any money. But the Prerana Educational and Social Trust belonging to him and his family apparently received, if we are to believe media reports, a paltry sum of Rs 44 crore by way of donations. The donations were received from 49 donors between 6 September 2006 and March 2011,’ states the Organiser.   

The weekly magazine of RSS, further says that the BJP rightly claimed before the elections, that the party has been cleaned of corruption with the backing of Yeddyurappa.

‘But one supposes that it came a bit too late. Now, he has had his revenge,’ says the Organiser, thus implying that the former chief minister was a major reason for party’s dwindling fortunes in the southern state. Recently there have been reports that BJP MLA CT Ravi met Yeddyurappa in an effort to bring him back before the 2014 elections.

However, former  chief minister Jagadish Shettar denied that feelers have been sent to Yedyurappa.

‘There is no thinking or discussion in BJP to bring back  Yeddyurappa. Our party has not sent anybody to meet or convince  Yeddyurappa to return to the BJP. There has to be reciprocation for any proposal to materialise,’ Shettar said.
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