MLA Yatnal receives notice for critical remarks against state, Centre govt

Bengaluru: BJP central disciplinary committee issued a show-cause notice to Bijapur MLA Basanagouda Patil Yatnal for insulting and denigrating the herculean efforts being made by his own party governments in Karnataka and at the Centre to provide flood relief.

The party in its notice sais that Yatnal’s intent, utterances and allegations against the Saffron party and its leaders constitute a serious breach of party discipline and asked to show cause why action should not be taken against him within ten days.

Continuing his tirade against the Union Ministers and MPs from Karnataka over failure to get Central grants for flood-ravaged North Karnataka, BJP MLA from Bijapur Basanagouda Patil Yatnal on Thursday said he would meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi and take up the matter.

I will write to the Prime Minister today itself and seek an appointment with him to brief him about the flood situation, Patil told reporters in Vijayapura.

He said other leaders from North Karnataka can join him if they wish.

He asked the union ministers to get to their work and meet the prime minister. Go and do your job and meet the Prime Minister. You all are union ministers. Why are you sitting in Hubballi and Bengaluru? Go to Delhi and get Rs 10,000 crore from the Centre, Yatnal said.

Yatnal reminded the MPs that BJP did not come to power just by fluke but by the hard work of workers like him, chief minister B S Yediyurappa and former union minister Ananthkumar.

A former union minister, Yatnal has been vocal against the BJP leadership, including Union Ministers and MPs from Karnataka, for the past few days over getting Central grants to carry out relief works in North Karnataka.