MANGALORE: Questioning the integrity of seers backing Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa, Congress leader B Janardana Poojary on Tuesday said that they were supporting corruption and a corrupt politician.
“The swamijis who are supporting Yeddyurappa should understand that he has confessed to corruption by returning the land. So the swamijis should know that they are supporting a corrupt politician and their support means sheer nonsense,” he rued, and added that the stature of swamijis held in high esteem in society, had lowered with their support to Yeddyurappa.
“How many Swamijis backed when Ashok Chauhan in Maharastra resigned, when Telecom minister A Raja and Vilas Rao Deshmukh resigned,” Poojary asked.
It is shameful that such religious persons noted for providing education to many students are proving to be a bad example, he regretted.
He asked the seers to follow the example of other swamijis like Suttur Mutt and centenarian swamiji in Tumkur. “Where is the RSS, the ideology guru of the BJP, why does it not have any courage to force him down,” he asked.
Taunting Yeddyurappa for projecting his caste, he pointed out that Lingayat population is just 17 percent of the total population in the state and remaining 83 percent are other castes.
“Jagadish Shettar can replace Yeddyurappa,” said Poojary, responding to a query.