New Delhi:
The Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) has come out in support of Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa in the controversial land scam.
BJP chief Nitin Gadkari, who met with senior RSS leaders Suresh Joshi and Suresh Soni, has understood to have told them that the party high command is satisfied with Yeddyurappa's clarification on allotment of land to his son.
Sources said that Gadkari also said that the allotment was done as per rules and that Congress is raising the Yedyurappa issue to divert focus from controversies surrounding A Raja, Commonwealth Games and the Adarsh Housing Society.
The RSS too conveyed its views to Gadkari that the Karnataka Chief Minister has not done anything wrong, sources said.
Defending allotment of land to a firm, in which his two sons are partners, Yeddyurappa had on Monday denied committing acts of "nepotism or favouritism" and ruled out stepping down.
Under attack from the Opposition, Yeddyurappa had even said that he was ready to order a judicial probe by a retired Supreme Court judge into denotification and allotment of lands and sites, in the last 10 years if the Opposition agreed.
Admitting that he allotted land to his sons and also a residential plot in Bangalore to his MP son B Y Raghavendra, Yeddyurappa had said they were done in accordance with rules and procedures.
BJP chief Nitin Gadkari, who met with senior RSS leaders Suresh Joshi and Suresh Soni, has understood to have told them that the party high command is satisfied with Yeddyurappa's clarification on allotment of land to his son.
Sources said that Gadkari also said that the allotment was done as per rules and that Congress is raising the Yedyurappa issue to divert focus from controversies surrounding A Raja, Commonwealth Games and the Adarsh Housing Society.
The RSS too conveyed its views to Gadkari that the Karnataka Chief Minister has not done anything wrong, sources said.
Defending allotment of land to a firm, in which his two sons are partners, Yeddyurappa had on Monday denied committing acts of "nepotism or favouritism" and ruled out stepping down.
Under attack from the Opposition, Yeddyurappa had even said that he was ready to order a judicial probe by a retired Supreme Court judge into denotification and allotment of lands and sites, in the last 10 years if the Opposition agreed.
Admitting that he allotted land to his sons and also a residential plot in Bangalore to his MP son B Y Raghavendra, Yeddyurappa had said they were done in accordance with rules and procedures.
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