Bengaluru: Stepping up their ante, all the seventeen disqualified legislators, including 11 newly-elected MLAs who were elected on a BJP ticket in the bypolls and as well as the two defeated candidates, met Chief Minister B.S.Yediyurappa at his Dollar’s Colony residence here this morning for the second day today. Most of the newly- elected disqualified MLAs had met the CM yesterday too.
The disqualified Legislators led by Gokak MLA Ramesh Jarkiholi had a one-to-one meeting with Yediyurappa, during which they urged the CM to include all of them in the State Cabinet as promised by the BJP before they quit their Assembly seats. They are also said to have sought plum portfolios like Power, Water Resources, Urban Development, Transport, PWD and Medical Education, besides urging for the withdrawal of election petitions filed by the defeated BJP candidates in Maski and Rajarajeshwarinagar, according to sources.
