BSY, Ananth Kumar slug it out over garbage

BANGALORE: Even as former chief minister BS Yeddyurappa has decided to get his hands dirty with the city's unresolved garbage problem, he's also picked up a fight with arch rival, BJP national general secretary H N Ananth Kumar over the same issue.
With Yeddyurappa on Tuesday holding a meeting with BJP legislators and ministers representing Bangalore city on garbage disposal, Kumar on Wednesday is said to have lashed out at N Subba Narasimha (Subbanna), Bangalore city unit chief of BJP, for organizing this event.
The MP from Bangalore South constituency reportedly questioned even deputy chief minister R Ashoka and health minister Aravind Limbavali on why the meeting was arranged when the former CM had nothing to do with Bangalore. While Bangalore Central MP PC Mohan was present, Kumar chose not to attend the meeting chaired by Yeddyurappa. "Subbanna was at the receiving end for coordinating the meeting," sources told TOI.
Unfazed by Kumar's action, Yeddyurappa engaged a helicopter and flew to Salem in Tamil Nadu on Thursday and spent nearly three hours studying its garbage disposal system. Legislators B N Vijayakumar, Ramachandra Gowda, Limbavali, M Satish Reddy, N S Nandiesh Reddy and S R Vishwanath accompanied Yeddyurappa.
Sources said Yeddyurappa, highly impressed with the Salem system, called chief minister Jagadish Shettar and Ashoka and asked them to send a team of officials to study the scheme and replicate it in Bangalore. "The former CM was actually planning to visit Salem on Friday or Saturday, but Kumar's remarks made him advance the plan and send a message that he still calls the shots," sources said.
Following inputs from legislators B N Vijayakumar and Ramachandra Gowda, the former CM had announced on Tuesday that he'd visit Salem to get first-hand information about its garbage disposal system.
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