Senior BJP politician and former Minister K.S. Eshwarappa has said that his remarks on party indiscipline were not intended to offend the “Bombay Boys”, following a controversy over the remarks.
Mr. Eshwarappa said in a news conference on Wednesday in Shivamogga that he had not mentioned the ‘Bombay boys’ —Congress and JD(S) lawmakers who quit their positions to join the BJP in 2019 and overthrew the JD(S)-Congress administration—in his earlier press conference in Hubballi.
“My statement in Hubballi was misinterpreted by a section of the media. I spoke about indiscipline in the party and claimed that the BJP had also been affected by the indiscipline-prone Congress party. But my remarks weren’t directed at people who joined our party,” he clarified.
