Karnataka BJP Vice President and former chief minister B S Yediyurappa’s son B Y Vijayendra on Monday stated he’ll contest the 2023 state meeting polls, if the occasion’s central management provides its nod. He maintained that the occasion management will take a choice at an acceptable time concerning his candidacy, and that Yediyurappa asserting him as candidate from the household bastion of Shikaripura for the polls, was below strain from folks there, which is topic to the occasion’s approval.
“There isn’t a confusion, my father and former CM B S Yediyurappa has a really sturdy relationship with the Shikaripura constituency, so on the strain from occasion leaders, employees and other people of the constituency, he made an announcement. He additionally has stated the occasion and its central management will determine,” Vijayendra advised reporters right here. “…if the occasion approves, I’ll contest the polls,” the youthful son of Yediyurappa, who is essentially seen as his political inheritor obvious, added.
Signalling the top of his electoral politics, Yediyurappa final Friday stated he shall be vacating his Shikaripura meeting seat in Shivamogga district, and that Vijayendra shall be contesting the polls from there. The Lingayat strongman, nevertheless, on Saturday clarified that solely the occasion’s central management can determine on tickets to contest polls.
By the way, the clarification got here on a day when Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai met Yediyurappa on the latter’s residence. Requested if a frontrunner like Yediyurappa, who constructed the occasion within the state for many years, does not have the independence to decide on a political successor for his constituency, Vijayendra stated, “That is BJP, a nationwide occasion and there’s no query of a successor on this occasion”.
“Sure, it’s true that Yediyurappa strived for 30 to 40 years to construct this occasion, the organisation and its employees; in the identical approach, the BJP has additionally given place and respect to Yediyurappa. So, the occasion will utilise his service to strengthen itself additional and are available to energy with a majority,” he added. Yediyurappa asserting his son as candidate from Shikaripura is being seen as an try by the veteran chief to compel the occasion to offer a ticket to Vijayendra for the meeting polls.
A bit inside the occasion feels that it could be an try by Yediyurappa to safe the political way forward for Vijayendra, after the current ‘setback’ when he didn’t get an MLC ticket for his son. Ignoring the advice of the state unit to area Vijayendra for the June 3 biennial elections to seven seats of Karnataka Legislative Council, the occasion central management had denied him the ticket.
The transfer was seen by some in political quarters as a setback to Yediyurappa, because the senior chief wished to see to it that Vijayendra turns into MLC and subsequently is inducted into the Bommai-led cupboard. Yediyurappa’s try to safe Vijayendra’s political future by unilaterally asserting him because the candidate from Shikaripura, could are available the best way of the occasion’s stand in opposition to dynastic politics, as his elder son B Y Raghavendra is already a Member of Parliament from Shivamogga.
Vijayendra was appointed because the occasion Vice President in July 2020. Earlier than that, he was appointed as BJP youth wing basic secretary. Quickly after, he was denied a celebration ticket to contest from Varuna constituency in Mysuru, forward of the 2018 Meeting polls. His stakes elevated within the occasion as he was credited by many to have performed a key position in BJP’s first ever victory in Okay R Pet and Sira Meeting segments within the by-polls held in 2019 and 2020, respectively.
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