Yeddy Keeps BJP on Edge

Immediately after BS Yeddyurappa’s two-day rebellion drama that started on 14 May failed to move the BJP for a change in the state leadership, the CBI, on directions of the apex court, moved in on him in a series of raids at his firm and houses, as well as those of his relatives. Though the former chief minister was reigned in by the high command from splitting the party, insiders say that his primary objective through the fizzled rebellion was to get the party to support him in the mining case and prevent his opponents from using the CBI probe to target him.

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