Accordingly the announcement was made by the BJP state President and former Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa. Meanwhile the announcement comes the same day party’s National President Amit Shah is set to visiting the city for a road show to campaign for youngster Tejasvi Surya, the party’s choice of candidate for the same constituency. Tejaswini did not hold a post in the party until Tuesday.
Furthermore the decision to deny Tejaswini a ticket had come as a surprise to many given that Yeddyurappa had endorsed her candidature and recommended the same to the High Command just a day before the first list of candidates was released by the party. Apparently Tejaswini, the BJP’s national leadership had chosen 28 year old Tejasvi Surya, a Yuva Morcha leader and nephew of Basavanagudi MLA Ravi Subramanya over Tejaswini. Hence the move had reportedly created many fissures within the state party who had endorsed her candidature.
Moreover Ananth Kumar had represented the Bengaluru South segment since 1996 and after his demise in November last year, the party’s state leaders had wanted his wife Tejaswini to contest elections. Perhaps the move to make Tejaswini the Vice President is similar to a move by the party in April 2018 when Yeddyurappa’s son Vijayendra was made the Youth Wing President and hence this after he was denied a ticket to fight from Varuna constituency in Mysuru against then CM Siddarmaiah’s son Yathindra.
