Embarrassed by the episode of its leaders indulging in mud-slinging after the Assembly poll debacle, the Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has identified 11 leaders who have been making controversial remarks and has entrusted veteran leader B.S. Yediyurappa with the task of making them fall in line with party discipline.
The party began the exercise on Friday as six of the 11 leaders were spoken to at the party State office in Bengaluru by a team of senior leaders including Mr. Yediyurappa, former Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai, State president Nalin Kumar Kateel, Union Minister Pralhad Joshi, and national general secretary C.T. Ravi.
The 11 leaders who have been marked by the party for their controversial remarks are M.P. Renukacharya, Basanagouda Patil Yatnal, Murugesh Nirani, Prabhu Chauhan, Pratap Simha, Ramesh Jigajinagi, Dasarahalli Muniraju, A.S. Nadahalli, Charanthi Math, Thammesh Gowda, and Ishwar Singh Thakur. Of them, the BJP disciplinary committee had served a show-cause notice only on Mr. Renukacharya for his aggressive remarks against the party’s pre-poll decisions.
