Summary:
Yeddyurappa was the BJP’s first Chief Minister in Karnataka from May 30, 2008 to July 31, 2011. Yeddyurappa on Friday refuted the charge that he had paid crores of rupees to BJPs national leaders. The party’s then high command directed him to resign after the state’s Lokayukta indicted him in the multi-crore mining scam that rocked the state from 2002 to 2010. The four state cabinet ministers were then revenue minister G.
Karunakara Reddy, infrastructure development & tourism minister G.
Janardhana Reddy, health minister B.
Sriramulu and housing minister V.
Somanna. The cases against Yeddyurappa were filed by two Bengaluru-based advocates Sirajin Basha and K.N..