BANGALORE: A day after state BJP president K S Eshwarappa formed four teams, excluding former chief minister B S Yeddyurappa and his supporters, to lead the campaign for Legislative Council elections from Teachers and Graduates constituencies, Yeddyurappa said this decision lacked logic.“Eshwarappa’s decision to form teams is without any logic and it would adversely affect the prospects of party candidates. Such decision would send wrong signal to the party workers,” Yeddyurappa told reporters after conducting a Janata Darshan on his own.He also made it clear that he would not participate in the campaign for the June 10 Council elections. During the Udupi-Chikmagalur by-election similar decisions were made, which ultimately led to the party’s drubbing in its own backyard, he added.“The BJP leadership should understand that neglect of mass leaders would result in poll defeats,” he said.He also took serious exception to Eshwarappa’s statement that “Yeddyurappa is a brave man and anybody else in his place would have committed suicide by now”. “More than expressing sympathy, the statement, as appears to me, is aimed to provoke me. I don’t need anybody’s sympathy. I have successfully faced several hurdles in the past, and now also I am capable of facing any problem,” he said.Yeddyurappa added that Eshwarappa should not have written a letter to BJP national president Nitin Gadkari complaining against him if he was concerned about him.On BJP national leader Rajnath Singh’s statement that the CM’s seat was not vacant in Karnataka to offer for Yeddyurappa, the former CM said, “I have not demanded any post from the party leaders. Even if there is a vacancy, I don’t want it.”He added that he would write a letter to Singh on this issue.
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