SC slaps notice on Karnataka CM BS Yeddyurappa

Hardly six days after he was allowed to continue his office, scam-tainted Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa was slapped a notice by the Supreme Court on disqualification of Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) MLAs.

The apex court on Tuesday issued a notice against Yeddyurappa and Karnataka Assembly Speaker KG Bopaiah for disqualifying 11 BJP MLAs after they withdrew support to the state government.

The five legislators, along with 11 Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lawmakers, were disqualified from the state Assembly by Bopaiah, after they had withdrawn support to the BJP-led Yeddyurappa Government.

On Oct 30, the Karnataka High Court upheld disqualification of 11 rebel BJP MLAs, who then considered to move the Supreme Court against the verdict.

Meanhwhile, on Nov 24, even as the BJP asked Yeddyurappa to continue in office, party president Nitin Gadkari said he himself will ?look into? the allegations over land scam.

Yeddyurappa said he was clean and had blessings of party’s central leaders like L K Advani, Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley. Faced with allegation of wrongful allotment of government to his family members, the cornered CM had his son BY Raghavendra (a BJP MP), daughter Umadevi and two other family members already surrender their plots.

He reiterated that he was never asked to resign.

This was Yeddyurappa’s third political victory in recent time after 19 legislators revolted against him for change of guard in Maharashtra.