BSY to launch KJP on December 10

BANGALORE: Former chief minister B S Yeddyurappa announced he'd take over as president of the Karnataka Janata Paksha (KJP) on December 10 in the presence of 4-5 lakh people.
The Lingayat strongman on Thursday extended an invitation to his supporting ministers, legislators and MPs to attend the programme in Haveri, 350km from Bangalore, where he could launch KJP.
"Don't worry about action from the government and party; let's see what action they (BJP) will take. I invite all my supporters and well-wishers to the programme," Yeddyurappa told reporters here before leaving for Chamarajanagar.
Yeddyurappa's close aide and former Union minister V Dhananjay Kumar, recently expelled from the BJP, has taken membership of KJP and expected to be temporary president till December 9. Kumar also dared the high command to take action against Yeddyurappa while holding state BJP president KS Eshwarappa responsible for the present crisis.
Soon after, state BJP leaders attacked him. Party vice-president Bhanuprakash in Shimoga said BJP had given everything to Yeddyurappa and he should be grateful. "He was made MLC after being defeated in the assembly elections in 1999. The BJP has given him everything and he should remember this," he said. Social welfare minister A Naranayaswamy said Yeddyurappa became chief minister because of the BJP.