Amit Shah meets rebel MLAs soon after Verdict

New Delhi: BJP President Amit Shah held a closed-door meeting in the national capital soon after the Supreme Court upheld the disqualification of 17 rebel Karnataka MLA but allowed them to contest elections. The meeting by Shah was also attended by BJP leaders hailing from Karnataka. The agenda of the meeting was to decide on how many of the rebels should get BJP tickets and who shall be excluded, if at all and how it can be ensured that their disaffection due to exclusion doesn’t harm the BJP-led Karnataka government in the state. The BJP is facing a peculiar situation in Karnataka where many of its own workers and ticket hopefuls are apprehensive of being shunned in the move to ‘reward’ the rebel MLAs. There are already growing murmurs of discontent among the state cadre who feel BJP may sacrifice their political ambitions for ‘outsider’ rebels. Prominent BJP leader P. Murlidhar Rao, who is also the National General Secretary of BJP said in a statement, “The Honourable Supreme Court’s decision to allow the disqualified MLAs of Karnataka to contest the by-poll is a welcome step. It is not about politics, it is about constitutional rights which we all have to welcome.” (IANS)

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