BJP party has zero faith in Basangouda Yatnal, says BJP National General Secretary Arun Singh
Belagavi, Apr 9: BJP National General Secretary Arun Singh on Friday said the party has 'zero faith' in its senior legislator and former union minister Basangouda Patil Yatnal publicly criticising Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa and his administration and repeatedly saying he would be changed.
Singh, responding to a question from reporters here on speculations about the change of CM after the bypolls, said "it's only in your dream."
Singh, in-charge of Karnataka, is in the city to campaign for the party candidate for Belgaum Lok Sabha seat, scheduled for April 17.
Requesting reporters not to ask him questions on Yatnal, Singh said he doesn't want to popularise the person.
"...I don't want to take his name...I have told you seven to eight times.
You want to make him popular by talking about him? When we speak about someone, that person will get popular," he said in response to a question.
Asked about Yatnal's repeated remarks that the CM will be changed in the state, "Maybe the media has faith in him (Yatnal), but the BJP does not have even zero per cent faith in him.
We don't have any faith in the person you are mentioning."
Setting a new date, Yatnal on Wednesday had said Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa will be replaced any time after May 2.
To a question on disciplinary action against Yatnal, Singh said the party's disciplinary committee will have to take a decision.
"...he has hurt workers and has caused damage to the party," he said.
The Bijapur city MLA was earlier slapped with a show- cause notice by the party for repeatedly criticising Yediyurappa and his government.
He had even accused Yediyurappa, his son and state vice president B Y Vijayendra and other family members of corruption.
Asked why action against Yatnal was pending for so long, Singh said there is a strategy and plans, which the party does not want to discuss it in front of the media
"...there may be reasons behind it (delay), if we remove he will be free," Singh said.
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Two injuries, one DNF, a DQ as India end messy World Relays campaign
Gaborone (Botswana) (PTI): Amoj Jacob and Ragul Kumar got injured during the men's 4x400m and 4x100 races respectively as India ended their World Athletics Relays campaign in disappointment on the second day of competitions here on Sunday.
The Indian camp had high hopes of making the 2027 World Championships in the men's 4x400m relay but the team did not finish (DNF) the race as Jacob suffered cramps and pulled out of the race after taking the baton from the first leg runner Dharamveer Choudhary. Rajesh Ramesh and Vishal TK were to run in the third and fourth legs.
Those teams which could not qualify for the 2027 Beijing World Championships by reaching the final round of each of the six relay events on Saturday were given another chance in the second qualification round on Sunday.
The top two teams in each of the two heats (in all six relay events) booked the Beijing ticket on Sunday.
India will now have to try and qualify for the World Championships through the Top Lists of the World Athletics, which is a long and tedious process.
In the men's 4x100m race, third leg runner Ragul Kumar fell down the track after failing to hand over the baton inside the exchange zone to fourth leg runner Gurindervir Singh, which clearly showed the lack of coordination among the runners.
Harsh Santosh Raut and Animesh Kujur ran the first two legs.
The Indian quartet was disqualified and Kumar was seen being taken away from the Field of Play with the help of the volunteers.
It was a comedy of errors in the case of the women's 4x100m race, which saw the baton being dropped during an exchange between first leg runner Tamanna and second runner Nithya Gandhe, though the Indians finished the race in 53.09 seconds.
Gandhe started running quite a distance, but after realising that the baton was not in her hand, she turned and ran back to pick it up.
The only silver-lining for the Indian contingent was the national record time in the mixed 4x100m relay race, though the quartet of Ragul Kumar, Nithya Gandhe, Animesh Kujur and Sneha SS finished sixth in heat number two with a time of 41.35 seconds, bettering the previous national mark of 42.30 seconds set in March in Chandigarh.
The mixed 4x400m relay quartet of Theerthesh P Shetty, Kumari Saloni, Nihal William and Rashdeep Kaur ended at fifth in heat number one with a time of 3 minutes and 19.40 seconds.
On Saturday, all the five Indian relay teams had failed to make it to the respective final rounds and thus missed out on the 2027 World Championships berths.
