Why the leader replacing Yediyurappa means a lot for Karnataka politics and secularism

Soumya Thakur, INN/Madhya Pradesh
Twitter- @soumyaT38144281, @Infodeaofficial

On 6 April 2020, BS Yediyurappa instructed that anybody communalizing the events of members of the Tablighi Jamaat testing positive for the coronavirus will be negotiated with hardly. He was dug through by various right-wing accounts, various pertaining to the IT cell of his party and by rulers of the Sangh Parivar. The anti-Muslim oratory that was being raised by the BJP after the Tablighi Jamaat gathering in Delhi was criticized by one of them. A BJP Chief Minister intimidating strategy against the dog-whistling did not go adequately with the right-wing ecosystem. 

Numerous senior leaders of the Karnataka BJP have reflected great assistance of communally controversial pet plans of the Sangh and BJP. While Karnataka under CM Yediyurappa has acquired some of them comprising the Karnataka Prevention of Slaughter and Preservation of Cattle Bill 2020, various related strategies have not been enforced. This despite various senior leaders and ministers of Yediyurappa’s cabinet supporting them. 

When BJP General Secretary CT Ravi said Karnataka also would give rise in law to prevent ‘love jihad’ in the state, like in Uttar Pradesh, and establish backing among several ministers, Yediyurappa declined to seize any meeting to even examine the adopted bill. When uproar for a UP-like public control bill was mooted for Karnataka also, Yediyurappa’s CMO settle by sense and illustrated that Karnataka does not need such a law. 

However, it will be misinformation to announce that Yediyurappa’s BJP has entirely kept up off from communalism. Karnataka’s coast noticed polarization maximum visibly during Yediyurappa’s second phrase as CM. Beneath his Chief Ministership, the famous pub attack, church attacks assumed in Mangaluru. After he grabbed office as CM in 2019, within the first three days, the government terminated celebrations of Tipu Jayanthi. From the infamous DJ Halli riots to police cruelty on the anti-CAA protesters in Mangaluru, his recent term has also been damaged by such happenings.

While his backers may assert that Yediyurappa was not the corps supporting all of this, as the CM the single stops with him. While few announce his reasonable standpoint on numerous problems is sensible politics, several others friendly to him claim that while he is personally a religious man, he does not harbor cooperative hate. 

Vidya Dinakar, an activist who has acted against communalism in coastwise Karnataka concerns who the another Chief Minister would be. “Somebody like Ananth Kumar Hegde seizing responsibility, “Whereas Yediyurappa, in my knowledge, has ignored taking advantage of divisive communal politics. I have listened of various illustrations when Muslim organizations would join him, attempt to encourage him of something and if he notices justification in their statement, he would instantly react thoroughly despite the prospect of his party being uneasy. He comes off to not precisely go by communal analyses. If the leadership was rabid then we would have glimpsed a various trick on the ground, same as other states,” Vidya adds.

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