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Maha Dy CM Ajit Pawar toured flood-hit villages in Sangli, ... PG 04 << VIEWS & VISION OF CITY Volume: 12, Issue: 296 TUESDAY, JULY 27, 2021, MUMBAI 12 Pages, ₹2 /- RNI No. MAHENG/2009/29332 www.afternoonvoice.com EMOTIONAL BS YEDIYURAPPA Don't understand RESIGNS why female... << BJP Is Yet To Declare The Name Of His Successor PG 12 Dr. Vaidehi Taman Yediyurappa, declared in a decision could take two or three Mr Yediyurappa never could afternoon_voice tearful speech at the Vidhan days. k e e p e v e r y o n e h a p p y. Sabha premises, I will meet the "I thank PM (Narendra) Disgruntled BJP leaders like n a sad note, and with Governor after lunch. Nobody Modi, Amit Shah and JP Nadda. MLA Basanagouda Patil Yatnal, tearful eyes, Karnataka pressured me to resign. I did it They gave me the chance to rule Tourism Minister CP Yogeshwar OChief Minister BS on my own so that someone else as Chief Minister despite being and legislative council member Yediyurappa announced his can take over as Chief Minister over 75. I had decided to resign AH Vishwanath repeatedly resignation, ending speculation after the completion of two some time back. I thought it best attacked him over corruption raised by relentless calls for his years of government. I''ll work to resign today as we mark allegations and accused him of removal by a section of the BJP to bring BJP back in power in completion of two years in this letting his son Vijayendra in the state. Yediyurappa, the the next election. I've not given term," he told reporters. interfere in the government. BJP's first Chief Minister in the the name of anyone who will Earlier, in his speech, he said: The resignation was widely south, took power in 2019 after succeed me. "When (Atal Bihari Vajpayee) anticipated but Yediyurappa a dramatic coup that saw the Talking about being tested was Prime Minister he asked me kept everyone guessing till Janata Dal Secular-Congress constantly in the two years of to be a minister at the Centre. But yesterday. Even a minister government crashing after the his fourth term - possibly his I said I will be in Karnataka." The claimed surprise. "It was a Congress abrupt resignation of 17 rebels. last, given the BJP's age limit of BJP had grown in Karnataka, he surprise for me. He told me that Most of the rebels later joined 75 years for posts. Soon after, he said, adding: "It has always been he may receive a favorable leader Rahul t h e B J P a n d c o n t e s t e d walked to the building next door an agnipariksha (trial by fire) for decision from the high elections. Many of them were to hand in his resignation. He me. These last two years it was command by July 26. But we all accommodated in Yediyurappa's will remain caretaker Chief Covid." have to abide by the norms of drives ... cabinet. Minister as his party decides on He also tweeted a tribute to his the party," said K Sudhakar. PG 05 << "I have decided to resign. a replacement; sources say a party's icons and top leaders. But CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Second years anniversary of Yediyurappa government, turned out to be his farewell speech as CM aving been associated with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Karnataka. B. S. Yeddyurappa is the only politician who has defied Sangh from his college days, Yediyurappa's public service BJP central leadership for a very long time. BJP has put a cap of 75 Hbegan when he was appointed as Karyavahi (Secretary) of years for holding active political posts like CM, Ministers, MP, MLA the Sangh's Shikaripur unit in 1970. He was appointed President of etc. Post that age prominent leaders are either nominated as the Shikaripura taluk unit of the BJP and later went on to become the governors to different states or are designated as members of president of BJP's Shimoga district unit in 1985. In 1988, he became ‘Margdarshak Mandal’ (Mentorship cell). Yeddi just challenged that the State President of the BJP in Karnataka. He was first elected to the norm successfully and has managed to become CM for the fourth lower house of the Karnataka Legislature in 1983 and has since time. represented the Shikaripura constituency six times. Yeddy lost his chair and was subsequently jailed due to adverse He has been a member of the Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, ‘Lokayukta’ report implicating him in various corruptions. Yeddy Twelfth and Thirteenth Legislative Assemblies (lower house) of Dr.Vaidehi CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 afternoonvoice.com/editorial [email protected] afternoon_voice afternoonvoicenews TUESDAY, JULY 27, 2021 Editoritis AFTERNOON VOICE, MUMBAI 02 Second years anniversary Emotional of Yediyurappa government, turned out BS Yediyurappa to be his farewell speech as CM Resigns << << PAGE 1 the key person who led the movement at national level to PAGE 1 demand expulsion from the party which led to his resignation. Although the party and its name were bear that as well and has successfully placed himself in the registered in April 2011, Yediyurappa actually launched it chair for fourth time. But how does he manage to defy the in 2012. He got elected as an MLA from Shikaripura central BJP and RSS leadership with impunity. His first Constituency (Shimoga district) in May 2013. stint in power was when he helped Janata Dal (Secular) In 2016, BJP re-appointed him as the President of leader H. D. Kumaraswamy to bring down the coalition Karnataka state BJP unit. He was BJP's CM candidate in government headed by Dharam Singh and form an 2018 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election. But the alternative government with BJP. party managed to win only 104 seats, short of simple An agreement was made between the JD(S) and BJP, majority by 9 numbers. During the aftermath of the 2018 which specified that H. D. Kumaraswamy would be the Karnataka Legislative assembly elections, Yediyurappa Surjewala attacked BJP on Twitter stating Chief Minister for the first 20 months, after which was invited to form the government and become the Chief Yediyurappa would become the Chief Minister for the that "We now know that Delhi's autocracy Minister by the Governor citing that his party was the decides CM's and not the will of BJP's remaining 20 months. Yediyurappa became the Deputy single largest in the house with 104 seats (8 short of Chief Minister as well as the finance minister in MLAs," he further charged. "The stark majority in the assembly). He was sworn in on 17 May reality is that Modiji habitually insults and Kumaraswamy's Government. Yediyurappa and 2018 by the Governor Vajubhai Vala, becoming the Chief Kumaraswamy during the coalition government with JDS compulsorily throws senior BJP Leaders in minister of Karnataka for the third time. He was given 15 the dustbin of history," the Congress leader in 2006. days to prove majority by the governor but the Supreme However, in October 2007, when it was Yediyurappa's alleged. Yediyurappa has, however, Court intervened and cut it short to just 24 hours and claimed that there is no pressure on him turn to become Chief Minister, Kumaraswamy refused to ordered a floor test (trust vote) soon after. The trust vote relinquish his post. This forced Yediyurappa and all the from the party leadership to resign and he was to be held on 19 May 2018 at 4pm. Before the trust has tendered his resignation of his own. ministers from his party to resign and on 5 October, the vote was to begin, however, Chief Minister B. S BJP formally withdrew support to the Kumaraswamy “Modi's record is replete with painful Yediyurappa gave an emotional speech, following which and forcible retirements of Advaniji, government. Karnataka came under President's rule he resigned citing that he will be unable to prove majority. which was revoked on 7 November as the JD(S) and the M.M.Joshiji, Keshubhai Patelji, Shanta In July 2021, with speculations of leadership change in Kumarji, Yashwant Sinhaji and many BJP decided to bury their differences and this paved the BJP Karnataka for over several months, on 26 July 2021, way for Yediyurappa to become the Chief Minister of others. The list of Modi's victims in BJP he emotionally announced resignation to the post of Chief doesn't end here," Surjewala said. He also Karnataka. Minister during his speech in the 2 years anniversary of his He resigned from his position as Member of Legislative cited the names of Sumitra Mahajan, government, which turned out to be his farewell speech as Sushma Swaraj, Uma Bharti, C.P.Thakur, Assembly and primary membership of Bharatiya Janata the Chief Minister of the state. He also cited the 75 years Party on 30 November 2012, and formally launched the A.K.Patel, Haren Pandya, Harin Pathak, age-limit rule in BJP. During the speech he went through Kalyan Singh as those leaders who have Karnataka Janata Paksha. It is said that his former his memories of the 45-year political career. colleague and senior BJP leader Anna Vinayachandra was been retired by the top brass of the BJP. He Inputs from various sources. said the latest "victims" are Harsh Vardhan, Ravi Shankar Prasad and Sushil Modi. Congress leader Mallikarujun Kharge, however, termed the resignation of Yediyurappa as an internal matter of the BJP. Taking on the BJP over the Pegasus spying issue, Surjewala said, "Malady is with BJP's corrupt Government and appalling maladministration in Karnataka, for it is an illegitimate Government born [email protected] out of "defection and corruption." vaidehitaman vaidehisachin Volume No.