Pro-Yeddy ministers step up pressure for change of guard

June 29, 2012 16:29

Stepping up pressure over their demand for change in the leadership in Karnataka, seven Ministers today met former Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa and discussed the political situation amid reports that they planned to quit the Ministry.

The ministers met at the residence of Rural Development Minister Jagadish Shettar, whom Yeddyurappa has been propping up as successor to his loyalist-turned foe D V Sadananda Gowda, and held parleys for an hour, party sources said. They later met Yeddyurappa, who has been sulking after being forced to quit last year in the wake of Lokayukta report on illegal mining indicting him and asked by the party to come clean in the corruption cases for his reinstatement.

The sources said eight ministers loyal to the dissident leader have been contemplating to resign from the ministry, seen as a pressure tactic to force the party central leadership to meet their demand.

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