BJP workers and leaders in Sullia taluk met in Sullia on Wednesday and registered their protest against the leadership for not accommodating S. Angara, six-time MLA from Sullia, in the Cabinet.
Addressing presspersons after the meeting at the BJP office in Sullia, Venkat Valalambe, president, Sullia Assembly Constituency unit of the party, said that the party workers have resorted to non-cooperation. It would continue till Mr. Angara was made a Cabinet Minister.
He said that the meeting of the party workers decided not to go to the party office and perform party work for now.
Mr. Valalambe said that the party workers from 231 booths in the constituency have resolved that Mr. Angara should be made a Minister in the next Cabinet expansion. He should be given a Cabinet portfolio (Minister) and nothing short of it, they resolved.
He said that their non-cooperation would continue until State president of the BJP Nalin Kumar Kateel or Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa gave a clear assurance of accommodating Mr. Angara in the next Cabinet expansion.
Sullia is one of the strongholds of the party in Dakshina Kannada which has elected a BJP candidate for six terms in a row. In the Lok Sabha elections too, BJP candidates have been getting the highest margin of votes from the Sullia Assembly segment.
In the 2013 Assembly elections, the BJP managed to win only one seat, that is, Sullia, in Dakshina Kannada leaving seven other seats to the Congress.
