Meanwhile, BS Yeddyurappa takes credit for the Congress win in Karnataka. "The only reason the Congress won is because we split the BJP votes. It also proves that the BJP has no existence in Karnataka without me. I will never join the BJP, it is no longer a big party in the state," he said.  


Former BJP leader B S Yeddyurappa's ominous warnings about destroying the party in the state assembly election were not merely empty threats. The Janata Dal Secular won 40 seats, the same as the BJP. The top BJP leadership had forced Yeddyurappa to resign from the chief minister's post after massive charges pf corruption surfaced against him. Yeddyurappa, considered the party's strongest leader in south India, had walked out of the BJP in a huff.