Regardless of the opposition from the previous chief minister and senior Bharatiya Janata Get together (BJP) chief BS Yediyurappa, the Karnataka authorities has determined to ship a proposal to Union authorities to call the Shivamogga airport after him.
Talking at a operate in Shivamogga on Wednesday, chief minister Basavaraj Bommai gave Yediuyurappa credit score for the quite a few growth works within the district and mentioned that the work of the airport could be accomplished at document pace due to his efforts.
“Yediyurappa had opposed naming the airport after him. The state Cupboard has determined to suggest his identify. Nonetheless, I hope he’ll settle for it as a token of individuals’s love for him,” Bommai mentioned.
“Each Yediyurappa and KS Eshwarappa have labored for the event of Shivamogga district. The BJP authorities has launched many schemes for the poor folks,” he added.
In March final yr, Bommai mooted naming Shivamogga Airport after Yediyurappa. Nonetheless, the previous chief minister formally requested the choice be dropped as it will not be ‘applicable’.
On March 24, 2022, Yediyurappa wrote a letter to the chief minister and requested him to rethink his resolution to call the airport and drop his identify for the airport in Shivamogga.
Within the letter to Bommai, Yediyurappa instructed the CM, “I’m touched by Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai’s resolution to call the Shivamogga airport after me. With all humility, I request the federal government to call the airport after any illustrious persona of Karnataka, which will probably be a befitting tribute to their contributions.”
Yediyurappa added, “Many personalities, together with patriots, had served the land and contributed enormously to the area. In comparison with them, my companies are only a few.”
Yediyurappa additionally prompt to the chief minister that the Shivamogga airport be named after a deserving persona after thorough discussions. “So please rethink the choice, and after discussing it on the proper platform, I request you to call the airport after any illustrious persona who has contributed to the event of the nation, the state and the historical past,” he added.
Over the previous few months, because the prominence of former Karnataka chief minister B S Yediyurappa has declined within the BJP within the state, Basavaraj Bommai has tried to emerge as a brand new pan-Karnataka BJP chief via a slew of measures, together with the promise of job and schooling quotas for a spread of communities.
Based on senior leaders, Yediyurappa is just not joyful along with his successor’s makes an attempt to eclipse him because the foremost Lingayat chief via caste machinations at a time when Yediyurappa himself is politically sidelined by the BJP.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to inaugurate the airport on February 27, which will probably be his fifth go to to Karnataka because the second week of January. The renaming comes as an try to assuage Yediyurappa earlier than the elections because the BJP is struggling to achieve traction below Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai within the state.