Mysuru: It’s now official. The sons of two political veterans running for Karnataka Chief Minister’s post will not face off in Varuna constituency. Varuna, with Chief Minister Siddharamaiah as its current MLA, was prepping for weeks for a showdown between Siddharamaiah’s son, Dr. Yathindra and B.Y. Vijayendra, the son of BJP’s Chief Minister candidate, B.S. Yeddyurappa. The party State unit has bowed to the High Command that has decided not to field Vijayendra.
After a couple of rounds of marathon meeting with Yeddyurappa at The President Hotel since 6 am today, BJP National General Secretary and Karnataka In-charge K. Muralidhar Rao and BJP’s election-in-charge for Karnataka - Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar, Yeddyurappa announced at 10.30 am outside the Hotel that his son will not contest the Varuna seat.
