{"id":333123,"date":"2021-07-26T05:02:36","date_gmt":"2021-07-26T10:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=333123"},"modified":"2021-07-26T05:02:36","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T10:32:36","slug":"bs-yediyurappa-resigns-as-karnataka-cm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/bs-yediyurappa-resigns-as-karnataka-cm\/","title":{"rendered":"BS Yediyurappa resigns as Karnataka CM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-333124\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/b-s-yeddyurappa-33834.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"302\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/07\/b-s-yeddyurappa-33834.jpg 302w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/07\/b-s-yeddyurappa-33834-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 302px) 100vw, 302px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Karnataka Chief Minister today announced his resignation, after holding the position for two years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He has clarified that resignation is his own decision; no one forced him to resign. &#8220;No one forced me to resign from high command; I only decided to give resignation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;I have decided to resign. I will meet the Governor after lunch,&#8221; Mr Yediyurappa, 78, declared in a tearful speech at the Vidhan Sabha premises, talking about being tested constantly in the two years of his fourth term &#8211; possibly his last, given the BJP&#8217;s age limit of 75 years for posts. Soon after, he walked to the building next door to hand in his resignation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He told reporters &#8211; &#8220;I thank PM (Narendra) Modi, Amit Shah and JP Nadda. They gave me the chance to rule as Chief Minister despite being over 75. I had decided to resign some time back. I thought it best to resign today as we mark completion of two years in this term,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The BJP had grown in Karnataka, he said, adding: &#8220;It has always been an agnipariksha (trial by fire) for me. These last two years it was Covid.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He also tweeted a tribute to his party&#8217;s icons and top leaders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karnataka Chief Minister today announced his resignation, after holding the position for two years. He has clarified that resignation is his own decision; no one forced him to resign. &#8220;No one forced me to resign from high command; I only decided to give resignation.&#8221; &#8220;I have decided to resign. I will meet the Governor after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":333124,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[56,36,2014],"tags":[11666,6537],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333123"}],"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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333125,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333123\/revisions\/333125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/333124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}