BJP govt completes 2 years in a bumpy ride

29.05.10 Bangalore : The Yeddyurappa BJP rule in South India, the first BJP government in Karnataka and South India ever, has now completed 2 years on Saturday, May 29. The government has overcome internal dissensions and radical changes in the party position from a minority to a majority rule in the last 2 years. One minister, lone woman at that, was sacrificed like a pawn to save the government, and the Speaker (J. Shettar) became a minister, and a minister (for Power) was catapulted to state party chairmanship before peace within BJP was restored. Likewise, there was a struggle against Bellary Reddy brothers over issues of iron/manganese ore exports, inside BJP and outside at the Central level too. B.S. Yeddyurappa has emerged as the architect of the saffron rule, despite a bumpy ride on way. The BJP had come to power on May 30, 2008 and faced a farmer’s angry agitation for supply of fertilizers within the first ten days of its rule and had to take in 6 rebel MLAs to run the govt smoothly.