Accusing the Bharatiya Janata Party of spreading canards that the former Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa is going to re-join that party, V. Dhananjay Kumar, president of the Karnataka Janata Paksha’s campaign committee, has said that the BJP was making such statements as it has realised that it cannot win any seat in the State without the support of Mr. Yeddyurappa.
Addressing presspersons after meeting party workers here on Wednesday, he said that Mr. Yeddyurappa will not join the BJP again and instead would strive to strengthen the KJP.
The BJP came to power in the 2008 Assembly elections on Mr. Yeddyurappa’s strength. Now, with the Lok Sabha elections nearing, the BJP is desperately trying to woo Mr. Yeddyurappa back, Mr. Kumar said. He said that the KJP would support the BJP only because Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has been named as the latter’s prime ministerial candidate.
