Asamadhanada Hoge: Dissidence Breaks Out in Karnataka BJP After Yediyurappa Gets New Cabinet

Twenty-five days after he was sworn in as Chief Minister for a fourth time, BS Yediyurappa got to finally induct 17 cabinet colleagues. While the party high command seems to have deliberately left 16 slots empty to contain any possible dissidence and retain the elbow room to reward some of the 17 ‘rebel’ MLAs of the Congress and Janata Dal (Secular) – whose membership has been terminated by the Speaker – there was a frissom of unhappiness immediately after the swearing-in. Several senior party leaders such as Umesh Katti, Murugesh Nirani, Balachandra Jharkiholi, Renukacharya and Basvraj Patil Yatnal did not even come to the swearing in of their own party’s new cabinet.