Days after being expelled from the BJP, Karnataka MLA Basangouda Patil Yatnal on Sunday hinted at launching a brand new political social gathering earlier than Vijayadashami this yr, stating that the saffron social gathering was incapable of defending Hindus. He additionally claimed to have obtained assist for the brand new social gathering from potential donors.
Talking to reporters at Vijayapura, Yatnal mentioned that quickly after his expulsion from the BJP for six years, he was getting calls from folks in overseas international locations. “They are saying, ‘you begin a brand new social gathering. We are going to fund you’,” he mentioned.
Yatnal additional claimed that an individual who’s a neighbour of Union Minister Pralhad Joshi in Bengaluru had approached him with a promise to contribute Rs 11 lakh to the brand new social gathering.
Based on the previous Union minister of state, there is no such thing as a future for him within the state BJP. “Yediyurappa’s household is conspiring to sideline pro-Hindu leaders within the state,” he alleged, persevering with his assault on the previous chief minister and his son B Y Vijayendra, who heads the social gathering’s state unit.
He mentioned that many individuals had been already asking him to start out a “Hindu social gathering” within the state. “If public opinion requires it, then by Vijayadashami this yr we are going to announce a brand new social gathering,” Yatnal mentioned, additionally saying a plan to journey throughout the state.
Yatnal’s remarks got here a day after he asserted that he would return to the BJP fold. On Saturday, Yatnal advised reporters in Bengaluru that his calls for to the BJP state management aligned with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s goal of ending “household politics, corruption and adjustment politics”. He additionally mentioned he wouldn’t begin a brand new social gathering. “I’ll restore the BJP unit. I’ll return to BJP. We are going to work to guard sanatan Hindus within the state,” he mentioned.
Yatnal’s current expulsion—his third in round 15 years—adopted his public criticism of Yediyurappa and Vijayendra, which he had continued regardless of the BJP Central Disciplinary Committee serving two notices on him. Each his earlier expulsions—in 2010 for berating the BJP state unit and in 2015 for contesting MLC elections as a insurgent candidate—had lasted round three years, with him rejoining the social gathering in 2013 and 2018, respectively.
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