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Yeddyurappa sends resignation to Gadkari
India Blooms News Service
New Delhi, July 28 (IBNS): Karnataka chief minister B S Yeddyurappa on Thursday finally decided to step down as he sent his resignation to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president, bowing before the pressure of the party high command after he was implicated in the illegal mining report of the state ombudsman.
Reports said Yeddyurappa sent his resignation to the party president Nitin Gadkari with his denotification of land from which his family made profit proving to be his biggest weak point.
The BJP had earlier told Yeddyurappa to resign immediately.
Top party leaders would fly to Bangalore on Friday to decide on his successor, party spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad said on Thursday.
Yeddyurappa, a 68-year-old BJP leader was implicated on Wednesday in a Rs 16,000-crore mining scandal by Karnataka Lokayukta N Santosh Hegde after an independent probe that also accused several other power politicians.
On Thursday, the BJP’s decision on Yeddyurappa was announced after a meeting of its top decision-making body, the parliamentary board, as Prasad added that Arun Jaitley and Rajnath Singh would go to Bangalore to work out on who will succeed Yeddyurappa.
"The BJP parliamentary board that met at the residence of party president Nitin Gadkari and unanimously decided that there has to be a change in leadership in the BJP Legislative Party in Karnataka. Yeddyurappa has been asked to tender his resignation immediately," Prasad said.
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