Karnataka: The rath yatra that we have been waiting for ages

Karnataka: The rath yatra that we have been waiting for ages

The Ad blitz from Yeddyurappa against Gowda and co. suggests that he is in perfect control of a situation perfectly made possible after the untimely exit from the perfect scene made imperfect by the likes of Gowda and sons. The ad blitz would be one of its kind as it would perfectly play out the deeds and dangers of having a gowda amidst them when other destructive dons are yet to be identified and dispatched to the numerically reducing jails of the state.
The Gowdas are on to their last ditch effort to place/throw themselves at the pedestal that accidentally slipped from their grip when Yeddy revolted as one K'swamy shut the door on him three years ago. The rath yatra is supposed to begin once Yeddy has in his perfect control all land related documents dating to the period as far as when the state had not come into existence and when it came into existence it had the freedom to have the first elected government that had the temerity to complete the tenure.
Yeddy wants to dissect and divulge the secrets of longevity of the governments of the past. With no Gowdas at the helm and no land records to be chased and filtered, the occupants of the chair not only lengthened their stay in office; they lengthened their stay on earth as well. It was a time when there was no summoning high command and no probing court farman.
The times have changed and so has been the impeccable character of politicos. As ad blitz has been promised so has been promised the yatra that would cover each and every district, taluka of Karnataka, giving exactly more than two and a half years to the BJP dispensation to set its house in order and seek a resurgent mandate in the new House. As for the other lot the yatra would continue despite the fuel hike the govt at centre would take recourse at short intervals and inclusive in its agenda would be to feed journos here and there on the the documents they have to wrap the Yeddy regime.
This is the sum and substance of one Yeddy who has truly and deservedly reached Bangalore, taken the all-important decision to release ads and release his near and dear ones from his captivity.

The last winding week had a different tale to tell with no one one sure which way the pendulum would swing. Here is the tale written against the apprehension that Yeddy would give in and wither away.

Karnataka Chief Minister stormed out of the meeting when a divided and divisive BJP told him to pave way for another person which the party high command had failed to locate and identify. The search was on for the past two days and who was helping in their search was Kumaraswamy, the man billed with the maximum taint and yet bringing out one charge after another suggesting he had all documents to back his claim. Probably this Gowda son has forgotten the scam trail that he and his associates are identified with and yet he wants Yeddy to step down.

Some in the party establishment are upset over the way things have panned out for Yeddy. One observed: " Karnataka Chief Minister Yeddy did so much for his party. Even in the face of the Reddy brothers open defiance he made it a point to buy peace with them. When allegations tailed Reddy brothers he stood by them. He gave the State the first BJP government. The party high command is trying to stage a mutiny sort of action against him. And leading this piece of action in the state is Kumaraswamy who ditched him when his turn came to govern. You are talking about corruption against Yeddy and family. Look at the corruption that Gowdas are enmeshed in and Reddy brothers are saddled with. Of the entire political lot that includes gowdas and reddys his acts of ommission and commission are comparatively less. But the party high command is not prepared to wait for the judicial probe and is eager to see his back. Once he is gone the state would be in entire mess with polls the only way out."
As the observation looked appropriate by some, the feeling in the party is Yeddy is being made a scapegoat on account of the high moral ground the Cong has taken. Once Yeddy goes, the state would be in for a long stint of instability. And in that spell of instability the likes of Kumaraswamy would flourish.
As Yeddy left the capital he was at pains to know that some journos were enlisting the support of gowdas to see him go. Probably the agenda they have will never come out in the open.

Before departing Yeddy told the BJP gathering that though he is being ousted a time will come when they too would be ousted. The BJP leaders were in a dilemma. Already in the Opposition for a period they would least desire, they thought how low they could hit. Is he suggesting the second largest party in LS would be relegated to third spot with the third front taking more seats than them? Or to be precise one party in that grouping overtaking them as far as winning LS seats were concerned? Gadkari and Advani had batted for Yeddy and yet their submissions were dismissed as Reddy brothers had already declared the Bellary lady as their preference for the top post if and when the BJP led coalition came to power.

AS Yeddy left Kumaraswamy tried to establish contact with the Cong. But the Cong was in no mood to listen to him given the drubbing the party was going to face in Bihar. Before giving him an audience they had set a condition. They wanted Kumaraswamy to open a line of revolt against Nitish in Bihar once he assumes office. Seeing his success in Karnataka, they wanted him to repeat his feat in Bihar. But K'swamy had a poser: "Are you congressmen sure you are going down as the other opposition grouping looks like? Probably you were on the fringe. So no question of saying you would be decimated. AS K'swamy put this poser, the Cong got a whiff of the ailments that gowdas suffer from. Once they are able to or on the verge of upstaging any combine that rules the state other than them, they visit Hassan and thank the public for putting faith in them. It is the Hassan public that distributes the propaganda material in the entire state that good times are about to come once the Hassan Kings are taken on board. And these Hassan Kings make it a point that any new coalition that aims to take office can't be minus them as stability is never guaranteed without Kumaraswamys and Gowdas at the helm.