Bangalore: A majority of Karnataka’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislators supporting former chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa boycotted the assembly session that began here Tuesday. The boycott was led by Yeddyurappa who is demanding that he be made chief minister again as the high court March 7 quashed the mining bribery case filed against him on the basis of last July’s Lokayukta report.
Yeddyurappa, claiming the support of 70 of the party’s 120 members in the 225-member assembly, has set deadline for the party’s leaders to remove D.V. Sadananda Gowda from the post. (IANS)