Ending days of hypothesis, BS Yediyurappa handed over the baton to his second son BY Vijayendra on Friday. His announcement got here at a perform in his Meeting constituency Shikaripura in Shimoga district of Karnataka.
Talking to the media, the 79-year-old Karnataka Bharatiya Janata Social gathering (BJP) stalwart BSY declared that Vijayendra will contest from the household fiefdom Shikaripura within the 2023 Meeting elections.
Signalling his retirement from electoral politics, an emotional BSY mentioned, “My son Vijayendra will contest from Shikaripura within the subsequent Meeting elections. I’m not contesting once more.”
Whereas elated Vijayendra supporters celebrated in district headquarters Shimoga, a few of BSY’s hard-core supporters within the BJP urged him to not retire from electoral politics.
Vijayendra informed the media that he would attempt to defend the household’s title by accepting his father’s provide. His elder brother BY Raghavendra already represents Shimoga within the Lok Sabha.
WON 8 ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS FROM SHIKARIPURA
BSY has received eight Meeting elections from Shikaripura since 1983. He misplaced solely as soon as in 1999 to the Congress. He was additionally a Lok Sabha member from Shimoga in 2014. His son Raghavendra received on a BJP ticket within the Meeting bypolls in 2014 from Shikaripura.
The Lingayat strongman, who stop because the CM of Karnataka a 12 months in the past, in a tearful speech, had mentioned, “I’ve determined to resign because the Chief Minister of Karnataka”. He had spoken repeatedly about how life has been an “agni pareeksha” for him and the way he wouldn’t retire from politics and proceed to play a job in it.
Bookanakere Siddalingappa Yediyurappa, or BS Yediyurappa or just BSY, has been a fixture in Karnataka politics for the previous 38 years. Even his sworn enemies like his willpower and tenacity. His associates and followers admire his never-say-die spirit. On the age of 76, after six failed makes an attempt to dislodge the HD Kumaraswamy-led authorities, Yediyurappa succeeded within the seventh try after 18 days of day and evening drama in July 2019.
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Within the 2018 Meeting elections, Yediyurappa led the occasion. However the BJP stopped at 104. The bulk mark of 113 eluded him and for the third time, he needed to stop in simply 56 hours after taking oath because the chief minister. Most had written his political obituary, declaring that the BSY period was over.
However Yediyurappa didn’t lose hope. He determined to remain again and combat. He took oath because the Karnataka CM for the fourth time up to now 14 years. Each time, he needed to transfer heaven and earth to helm the state affairs.
FOUR-TIME CM
He first took oath because the CM in 2007 with the assistance of the JD(S), however that experiment collapsed in simply seven days.
Making Gowdas’ “betrayal” his principal ballot plank, Yediyurappa led the BJP to victory in 2008, a primary for the saffron occasion in south India. He was wanting simply three seats for a transparent majority mark of 113.
That shaky authorities lasted for 38 months. He needed to go to jail in a corruption case after demitting workplace. His third time period was the shortest, lasting for simply 56 hours.
Despite the fact that Yediyurappa is now referred to as the tallest Lingayat chief, for many of his political profession, he was referred to as a farmers’ chief.
RAGS TO RICHES
His story is a rags to riches one.
Born right into a poor farming household at Bukanakere in Mandya district in 1943, Yediyurappa misplaced his mom when he was a toddler. When in class, he bought lemons at weekly markets to fund his training and feed his household. He additionally labored at a manufacturing facility in Bengaluru as a helper.
Within the early Sixties, he got here in touch with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and have become a ‘pracharak’. He was despatched to Shimoga to unfold RSS actions that modified his life perpetually and he by no means appeared again. Quitting the job of ‘pracharak’, he joined a rice mill as a clerk at Shiralakoppa in Shimoga district and ultimately married the proprietor’s daughter.
He organised Jana Sangh actions in Shimoga, which was the hotbed of socialist events. Within the early Seventies, he was elected to the Shikaripura municipality as a member on Bhartiya Jana Sangh ticket. He turned a voice of the oppressed farmers and labourers, organising a march of bonded labourers.
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In 1983, he was elected to the Karnataka Meeting on a BJP ticket, together with 17 others. The BJP gave help to Ramakrishna Hegde-led Janata Social gathering authorities, the primary non-Congress authorities in Karnataka. However that alliance collapsed in simply 18 months.
Within the 1985 Meeting elections, the BJP received simply two seats. After the opposite MLA, Vasantha Bangera, defected to Janata Social gathering, Yediyurappa remained the lone member of the BJP within the Meeting. By elevating pro-farmer points, he had put the Hegde authorities on the mat, incomes him the sobriquet of ‘fighter’.
Within the 1989 elections, the BJP managed to enhance its tally from one seat to 4.
The Ram Janmabhoomi motion and LK Advani’s Rath Yatra made the BJP in style in Karnataka, and within the 1994 Meeting elections, the BJP turned the primary opposition occasion by successful 44 seats. When HD Deve Gowda turned the chief minister, BSY turned the chief of the opposition.
THE FIRST ELECTORAL DEFEAT
Within the 1999 Meeting elections, Yediyurappa suffered his first electoral defeat. Realising that he could be made irrelevant with out energy, Yediyurappa selected to enter the higher home as an MLC.
Within the 2004 elections, for the primary time, the BJP turned the single-largest occasion by successful 79 seats. Two years later, in a midnight coup, he unseated N Dharam Singh-led Congress-JDS authorities, joined arms with HD Kumaraswamy and shaped a coalition authorities by which he turned the deputy chief minister. That notorious ‘20-20’ experiment, too, collapsed in 20 months, making Yediyurappa and HDK sworn enemies.
Yediyurappa’s 38-month rule between 2008 and 2011 was chaotic, marked with inside strife and fees of corruption. The mining rip-off did him in and he was pressured to stop because the CM in July 2011. Just a few weeks later, he was despatched to jail briefly in a land rip-off case. That dented his picture and the opposition nonetheless mockingly calls him ‘Jailurappa’.
Yediyurappa had held his personal occasion leaders liable for his jail time period and stop the BJP to kind the Karnataka Janatha Social gathering (KJP) forward of the 2013 Meeting elections. That experiment proved disastrous, with him successful simply six seats. A 12 months later, he returned to the BJP and went on to turn out to be a Lok Sabha member from Shimoga within the 2014 common elections.
Within the 2018 Meeting elections, he led the occasion because the state BJP president. To his unhealthy luck, it turned out to be a basic case of too-close-yet-too-far.
Surprisingly, with a profession spanning a long time, Yediyurappa all the time needed to chase energy.
Though he has signalled retirement from electoral politics, however as a veteran politician, he should still be within the recreation.
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