B. S. Yeddyurappa

BS Yeddyurappa ( Bookanakere Siddalingappa Yeddyurappa, also Yediyurappa; Kannada: .. ಬಿ ಎಸ್ ಯಡಿಯೂರಪ್ಪ [ jʌɖiju ː rʌp ː ʌ ]; born February 27, 1943 in Bookanakere, district Mandya ) is an Indian politician of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP ) in the state of Karnataka. He served briefly in 2007 and again from 2008 to 2011, the Office of the Chief Minister ( Government) of Karnataka. This Yeddyurappa led the first BJP government in a southern Indian state. After he had fallen out with the BJP, Yeddyurappa in 2012 founded his own party, the Janata Karnataka Paksha ( KJP ), but returned again in 2014 back in the BJP.

Biography

Early years and personal

BS Yeddyurappa was born on February 27, 1943 as son of the farmer and his wife Siddalingappa Puttatayamma in the village in the district of Mandya Bookanakere in southern Karnataka. He is Hindu and belongs to the Lingayat, one in Karnataka widespread and influential political caste. His training included Yeddyurappa with a Bachelor of Arts in Bangalore from. He then worked as a secretary in the local administration, then in a private rice mill in Shikaripur in the district Shimoga, before he opened an ironmongery shop in Shimoga after his marriage in 1967. With his wife died in 2004 BS Yeddyurappa Maitradevi has two sons and three daughters. His son BY Raghavendra has also embarked on a political career in the BJP and is since 2009 deputy in the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the total Indian Parliament.

BS Yeddyurappa wrote his name in Latin letters originally Yediyurappa, changed the spelling of 2007 but for astrological reasons Yeddyurappa.

Political rise

Since 1970 BS Yeddyurappa is a member of the Hindu nationalist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh cadre organization (RSS), with whom he was in contact since his teenage years. His political career began in the party Bharatiya Jana Sangh ( BJS), which went up in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP ) in 1980. 1972 BS Yeddyurappa BJS - Chairman of the Taluk ( sub-district ) Shikaripur, 1975, he was elected Chairman of the Municipality of Shikaripur. In the same year he was detained under the emergency legislation of the Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi for 45 days.

1983 Yeddyurappa made ​​his first successful one for the emerged from the BJS BJP party in the constituency Shikaripur in elections to the Karnataka Legislative Assembly ( the lower house of the Federal State Parliament ) on. In 1985, he was able to repeat his success. Since 1988, Yeddyurappa has been Chairman of the BJP in Karnataka. In the federal state elections in 1989 and 1994, he defended his constituency. In the 1999 elections he was defeated, however, and instead moved in 2000 to the House of Lords Karnataka Legislative Council a.

As Chief Minister

From the Federal State election in Karnataka 2004, the BJP was the first time emerged as the strongest party. Because the BJP had no outright majority, but formed a coalition of the Indian National Congress and the Janata Dal ( Secular ) (JD (S)), a split from the Janata Dal party, a government led by the Congress Party politician N. Dharam Singh. BS Yeddyurappa, who was re-elected from his ancestral constituency Shikaripur in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly, took over the office of the opposition leader.

In February 2006, the JD (S ) grew out of the coalition with the Congress party and joined a coalition government with the BJP. It was agreed that HD Kumaraswamy of the JD (S ) for the first and BS Yeddyurappa should assume the office of the Chief Minister for the second half of the remaining term of office. While Kumaraswamys reign acted Yeddyurappa as Deputy Chief Minister and Finance Minister. As BS Yeddyurappa should move up in October 2007 in the Office of the Chief Minister, Kumaraswamy refused to resign but what led to the break of the coalition and the imposition of President's rule. In the meantime, seemed the differences between BJP and JD (S ) enclosed, so BS Yeddyurappa was sworn in on 25 November 2007 as the Chief Minister of Karnataka. Ultimately, the two parties at odds but again, so already Yeddyurappa had to resign a week later and Karnataka was asked again for half a year under President's rule.

In the election of 2008, the BJP won re- election a success. This time they missed the absolute majority only slightly and was able to form with the support of six independent deputies a government. On 30 May 2008 BS Yeddyurappa was sworn in as Chief Minister for the second time. Thus, it was Yeddyurappa managed to bring the BJP to power for the first time in a South Indian state.

Corruption scandal and resignation

BS Yeddyurappas tenure as Chief Minister ended prematurely because of his involvement in a corruption scandal. In October 2010, a part of the BJP parliamentary party Yeddyurappa refused allegiance, after allegations had arisen, this was his family state land zugeschanzt well below market value, which they had then resold at a great profit to a mining company. A no-confidence vote in Parliament on Yeddyurappa was only by the controversial decision of the Speaker of Parliament to exclude MPs from the 16 renegade choice. In January 2011, the Governor of Karnataka HR Bharadwaj approved the prosecution Yeddyurappas because of corruption allegations. An independent commission of inquiry accused Yeddyurappa before in its final report published in July 2011, to have allowed illegal mining, whereby the state revenue of over 18 billion rupees ( 280 million euros ) had escaped. On July 31, had Yeddyurappa, who denies the allegations, to resign under pressure from the BJP party leadership because of allegations of corruption by the Office of the Chief Minister. On October 15, 2011 Yeddyurappa was arrested for allegations of corruption and released 24 days later for a deposit payment again.

As the successor to BS DV Sadananda Gowda was Yeddyurappas new Chief Minister of Karnataka. Gowda was considered a confidant Yeddyurappas and enjoyed the party internal succession dispute to support the retired Chief Minister. Speculation that he would continue to pull the strings in the background and prepare his return to office of the Chief Minister, Yeddyurappa denied immediately after the election Sadananda Gowdas.

Establishing the KJP and re-entry into the BJP

In March 2012, the Supreme Court of Karnataka Yeddyurappa acquitted of corruption charges. Then Yeddyurappa is sent to return to the Office of the Chief Minister, which was rejected by Sadananda Gowda. In response, Yeddyurappa transferred his support to internal party rival Jagadish Shettar Gowdas that eventually 12 July 2012 Sadananda Gowda replaced by a power struggle as Chief Minister of Karnataka. However, the intra-party power struggle continued on and eventually led to the fact that BS Yeddyurappa decided to leave the BJP. On December 9, 2012, he called a new party, the Janata Karnataka Paksha ( KJP ), and in life, with which he took in the parliamentary election in 2013. The KJP decided when choosing six out of 224 constituencies for itself ( including one by Yeddyurappa ), while the Congress Party won an absolute majority. Thus, the party fell short of the self-imposed expectation to be used as Mehrheitsbeschafferin in the new government. Yeddyurappa counted it to the KJP on but to have the BJP brought decisive votes losses.

Soon after the election, Yeddyurappa almost back to the BJP. In September 2013, he announced that the KJP would assist in the all-India general elections 2014, the BJP -led National Democratic Alliance. In January 2014 Yeddyurappa finally announced the unification of the KJP with the BJP.