Former Chief Minister of Karnataka B S Yeddyurappa, who left the BJP and formed the Karnataka Janata Party, visited the Rajarajeswara Temple and offered prayers on Wednesday morning.
Yeddyurappa, who reached the Rajarajeswara temple around 10.30 am, offered ‘Ponninkudam’ at the temple. It is the third visit of Yeddyurappa to the temple here in recent times. He had visited the Rajarajeswara Temple before the became the Chief Minister of Karnataka and after he assumed the office of the Chief Minister. He also had offered an elephant to the temple.
This time, he visited the temple as an ordinary devotee although the police had made elaborate security arrangements in view of his visit. Since Yeddyurappa had left the BJP and formed a new party, the
BJP leadership in the district here kept away from his programmes. None of the BJP leaders in the district here were informed of his visit. The temple authorities too had no official information, except a telephone call from a private individual on Tuesday evening concerning the visit of the former Chief Minister of Karnataka. The temple authorities were in no position to confirm the planned visit of Yeddyyurappa till Tuesday evening. The former Karnataka Chief Minister was accompanied by KJP secretary Lakshmi Narayana MLA. He was received by the Devaswom Trustee board member N K E Chandrasekharan and T N Vasudevan Namboothiri.