Bengaluru, Apr 22: The Bhartiya Janata Party on Monday expelled rebel Karnataka leader K S Eshwarappa for six years for violating party discipline and contesting Lok Sabha polls as an independent candidate.
“Ignoring the party’s directions, you are contesting as a rebel candidate from Shimoga Lok Sabha constituency, causing embarrassment to the party. This is violation of party discipline,” state disciplinary committee president Lingaraj Patil said in the expulsion order.
Eshwarappa has been blaming state BJP president B Y Vijayendra and his father and veteran party leader B S Yediyurappa responsible for denying ticket to his son K E Kantesh from Haveri constituency.
Former Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai has got BJP’s Haveri ticket, while Vijayendra’s brother and MP B Y Raghavendra is the BJP candidate from Shimoga.
Eshwarappa, has repeatedly accused Yediyurappa of sidelining those who espoused the cause of Hindutva like Nalin Kumar Kateel, Pratap Simha, C T Ravi and D V Sadananda Gowda.
The 75-year-old Eshwarappa Eshwarappa is widely credited for building the BJP from the grassroots in Karnataka, along with Yediyurappa and the late H N Ananth Kumar.
