Inaugurate a 108-foot statue of Basaveshwara on the Basavakalyan–Bidar road.

The former Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa said in Basavakalyan on Sunday that there was no change in his decision to quit the BJP and form his own party.

He said that any efforts to hold him back would not succeed.

He was at Basavakalyan to inaugurate a 108-foot statue of Basaveshwara on the Basavakalyan–Bidar road. “There is no change in my decision to quit the BJP and form my own party. That is why I have announced that I would form my new party on December 10,” he told presspersons.

He said that he was not worried about what BJP leaders were saying about him. “I am only focussed on sitting in the Vidhana Soudha and leading the State to prosperity. All I want to do is to make it a ‘Kalyan Rajya’ (welfare State),” he said.

Asked if he would yield to conciliatory efforts by RSS leaders such as M.C. Jayadeva, he said that he had “neither met such leaders nor would he be meeting them.” He also commented about some of his followers in the Cabinet, who have hinted that they may not be joining his party. “I am not dependant on any leader. I depend on the people of this State and not its leaders,” he said.

Asked about the former Chief Minister D.V. Sadananda Gowda’s criticism of his decision to quit the BJP, Mr. Yeddyurappa said that he was not bothered about such things. “When Mr. Gowda wanted to be the chairman of the Karnataka Milk Federation, I made him Chief Minister. He has started making such statements after tasting power,” he said.

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