{"id":286912,"date":"2018-05-19T16:42:07","date_gmt":"2018-05-19T11:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/?p=286912"},"modified":"2018-05-19T16:42:07","modified_gmt":"2018-05-19T11:12:07","slug":"karnataka-elections-bs-yeddyurappa-resigns-ahead-of-floor-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/karnataka-elections-bs-yeddyurappa-resigns-ahead-of-floor-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Karnataka Elections: BS Yeddyurappa Resigns Ahead Of Floor Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Addressing the house ahead of the floor test, BS Yeddyurappa today resigned as the Chief Minister of Karnataka.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">BS Yeddyurappa said , &#8220;People have blessed us with 104 seats and have rejected Congress-JD(S), We got the people&#8217;s mandate, but we did not get it in full. Congress did not get it, JD(S) did not get it. They have made an unholy post-poll alliance. The single largest party is the BJP. Always the invitation is given to the single largest party and the Governor invited us as per procedure,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;I have travelled throughout the state for the last two years and have seen pain on the faces of people. I can&#8217;t forget the love &amp; affection I received from people,&#8221; Yeddyurappa said. &#8220;If only people would have given us 113 seats instead of 104, we would have made this state a paradise,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He says he&#8217;s the champion of farmers and has always been. &#8220;I had planned waiver of loans up to 1 lakh in nationalised banks, coop banks. I dedicate my life for famrers. I fight for them till my last breath,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;My dream was to be Chief Minister here, with Narendra Modi as my Prime Minister,&#8221; says Mr. Yeddyurappa.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I will lose nothing if I lose power, my life is for the people.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;I will go before the public and seek their support. I am not moving this motion. I will go straight away to Raj Bhavan and submit my resignation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">letters@tehelka.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Addressing the house ahead of the floor test, BS Yeddyurappa today resigned as the Chief Minister of Karnataka. BS Yeddyurappa said , &#8220;People have blessed us with 104 seats and have rejected Congress-JD(S), We got the people&#8217;s mandate, but we did not get it in full. Congress did not get it, JD(S) did not get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":286913,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[56,36,39],"tags":[453,1549,1380,236,1472,1430,316,1346,1574],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286912"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}