BJP State president B.S. Yeddyurappa has decided to hold a meeting of the party’s defeated candidates in Bengaluru on Wednesday.
Speaking to mediapersons on Sunday after participating in an introspection meet of BJP leaders on the party’s inability to muster enough MLAs to form the government, Mr. Yeddyurappa said 22 or 23 candidates of the BJP had lost by very narrow margins in the Assembly elections. He said there was a need to encourage them and instil confidence in them to go on. “I will interact with them for about two hours,” he said.
He refused to disclose the BJP’s next move with respect to the the JD(S)-Congress coalition government. “We will take a call on our future course of action after knowing which way the next government moves. We will wait for the formation of their Cabinet,” he said.
Former Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar ridiculed the Congress for offering unconditional support to a regional party like the JD(S) to form government. “The act of a national party offering unconditional support to a regional party is unprecedented,” he said, interpreting this as an indication that the Congress was losing its base in Karnataka.
