Armed with High Court order allowing B S Yeddyurappa to travel outside Bangalore, the former chief minister is all set to embark on a statewide tour from next week.
His tour, which is likely to create a flutter in the ruling BJP, would tentatively begin from August 20 and is expected to last for a month. In the first leg of his tour Yeddyurappa is expected to visit drought and flood-hit areas.
According to sources, Yeddyurappa has been busy finalising the itinerary of his tour programme.
The tour would be announced in a day or two, they maintain. Yeddyurappa has been claiming that the purpose of his tour was to understand and respond to the problems of the people hit by drought and floods.
But many see his tour as a prelude to his plans to float a political outfit of his own ahead of the next year’s Assembly elections provided the party high command continues to neglect him and reject him any position.
“He wants to gauge the public mood before putting his plans into action. If he gets good response, then he might go ahead and float his own party with a confidence or else use his popularity to coerce the party high command to get a position in the state BJP,” a senior leader in the Bharatiya Janta Party said on Tuesday.
This apart, the tour is also expected to create problem in the ruling BJP. For, many senior leaders feel that it would send a signal that the state government was not handling the drought situation effectively besides leaving an impression among the people that he is the most powerful leader.
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