Karnataka: The Karnataka authorities has reiterated its intention to call the soon-to-be-inaugurated Shivamogga airport after former chief minister B.S. Yediyurappa because the Bharatiya Janata Occasion (BJP) seems to placate the Lingayat strongman forward of this yr’s state elections.
The transfer hints at an try and assuage Yediyurappa earlier than the elections because the BJP is struggling to realize traction underneath Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai in the one southern state which is underneath its management.
“The State Cupboard has determined to call the Shivamogga Airport as B.S.Yediyurappa Airport and a proposal to this impact might be despatched to the Authorities of India,” Bommai stated in an announcement on Wednesday.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to inaugurate the airport on February 27, which might be his fifth go to to Karnataka for the reason that second week of January.
In April final yr, Bommai mooted to call Shivamogga Airport after Yediyurappa however the former chief minister formally requested the choice be dropped as it could not be ‘applicable’.
Forward of the polls, Yediyurappa’s youthful son B.Y. Vijayendra, the BJP state vice-president, was given further obligations as he was named because the committee head who will oversee the organising conventions throughout all 224 meeting constituencies. Vijayendra is more likely to exchange his father because the get together candidate from Shikaripura in Shivamogga.
The developments to placate the father-son duo is more likely to be a part of the technique to not additional offend its senior most chief who was compelled to step down as chief minister in July 2021.
Final yr, the BJP determined in opposition to nominating Vijayendra for the MLC elections in Might and elevated Yediyurappa to the get together’s parliamentary board in August. There have been studies that the BJP brass determined to not area Vijayendra within the MLC election because it deliberate to area him within the Karnataka elections and to present him a larger function as a placatory transfer.
Although the BJP has fashioned the federal government twice in 2008 and 2019 in Karnataka, it has by no means secured a majority by itself. In such a scenario, Yediyurappa is a vital factor for the BJP as his full involvement can usher in help from the Lingayats, who’ve threatened to maneuver away from the get together after Bommai failed on his guarantees to resolve the reservation-related calls for.
(Edited by Tony Rai)
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