PM Modi met Karnataka’s former Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa (File)

New Delhi:

Prime Minister Narendra Modi had a 15-minute assembly with Karnataka’s former Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa on Monday on the sidelines of the BJP nationwide govt.

Karnataka is likely one of the states going to polls this 12 months. Poll technique for these 9 states was the important thing agenda of the continuing two-day govt meet in New Delhi, which is being attended by PM Modi and the important thing leaders and ministers of the social gathering.

Since being faraway from the highest submit in Karnataka – the one southern state the place the BJP has made a breakthrough – Mr Yediyurappa, who has a big base of Lingayat supporters, has been preserving a low profile. But with the polls approaching, the BJP’s unique strongman within the south has been elevated to the parliamentary board – the social gathering’s highest decision-making physique.

The assembly with PM Modi has raised hypothesis a few flip in fortune for the four-time Chief Minister of Karnataka.

Mr Yediyurappa’s successor, Basavaraj Bommai, has been in information extra for the mistaken causes than proper.

Mr Bommai’s tenure within the high submit had seemed shaky final 12 months because the opposition heaped corruption allegations towards him and began the PayCM marketing campaign. But the social gathering had maintained that there will likely be no change and the state will go to polls below his management.

Amit Shah, the BJP’s chief strategist, has handed the Karnataka unit a “Mission 136” – profitable 136 of the state’s 224 seats. But it might be an uphill job within the backdrop of the Congress problem in Karnataka, one of many few states the place the social gathering has ground-level assist.

The BJP got here to energy within the southern state for a 3rd time in Karnataka because the alliance authorities of the Congress and HD Kumaraswamy’s Janata Dal Secular collapsed following an exodus by its MLAs. The ruling alliance had accused the BJP of operating an Operation Lotus – – toppling an opposition authorities by poaching on its MLAs.

Mr Bommai and the social gathering’s state unit president Nalin Kumar Kateel additionally met the state basic secretary in-charge Arun Singh.