Even as B S Yeddyurappa arrived in New Delhi on Wednesday night to hold crucial talks with the Bharatiya Janata Party top brass over the leadership issue in Karnataka, state Chief Minister Sadananda Gowda, state BJP President K S Eshwarappa and Law Minister Suresh Kumar too are expected to follow suit to thwart the former chief minister's agenda.
The trio will leave for New Delhi shortly to pressurise the party leadership not to make Yeddyurappa the chief minister.
At the moment, 10 MLAs are locked in a meeting with Gowda at his residence and are discussing the next course of action in case the Delhi leadership yields to pressure and makes Yeddyurappa the chief minister.|
Earlier in the day, the crisis in the Karnataka unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party took a new turn with at least five members of legislative assembly coming out in the open and asserting that they would quit the party if Yeddyurappa was appointed to the top post.
The 5 MLAs -- A Asnotikar, B Jharkiolli, Sampangi and two others -- also met state governor, H R Bharadwaj and urged him to defer the ongoing budget session in the state assembly.
They told Bharadwaj that considering that there was a revolt in party and that the government itself was divided, it would be inappropriate to go on with the budget session.
Later these MLAs -- three of whom are ministers -- met Eshwarappa.
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