Summary:
The chief ministerial post has remained elusive to him several times over. What began as a day of jubilation swiftly unfolded into a political drama for the Bharatiya Janata Party’s chief ministerial candidate Bookanakere Siddalingappa Yeddyurappa. “Is it going to be a slip between the cup and the lip?” is what the political circles are wondering about Mr.
Yeddyurappa. First, he had an endless wait for the clearance of corruption charges against him before the party high command appointed him as president of its State unit and chief ministerial candidate. This was not what Mr.
Yeddyurappa had expected as he had been repeatedly declaring all through his campaign meetings that he would take oath as Chief Minister on May 18..