Bengaluru, Nov 28: The OBCs'?convention portrayed a show of unity among state BJP leaders with most of the prominent faces in the party being present.
Seating arrangements had been made for Union ministers, MPs, legislators, party's state office bearers, district presidents and chiefs of various morchas and secretaries on the dais. At least 300 people were seated on the 10-foot-long stage. To convey the show of strength, the convention had been christened “Ekta rally” (rally of unity).
BJP?president Amit Shah arrived one-and-a-half hour late, resulting in a large number of state leaders getting an opportunity to address the gathering. Speaker after speaker criticised the Congress' “double standards” on upliftment of backward classes. BJP leaders said representatives from 198 OBC?communities attended the event.
The convention had also been organised to quell dissidence within the BJP. In the last few weeks, a section of leaders had questioned the style of functioning of BJP state president B?S?Yeddyurappa. Senior leader K?S?Eshwarappa had repeatedly been associating himself with?Sangolli Rayanna bridge, a forum for the welfare of OBCs and the Dalits. Eshwarappa too attended the convention and addressed the gathering.
A luncheon meeting had been organised for Shah with top state leaders at Kumara Krupa guesthouse. It was said that the meeting would discuss state-of-affairs in the BJP state unit, including the rift between Yeddyurappa and Eshwarappa. The meeting could not be held as Shah, running behind schedule, left for HAL airport from the convention venue, where he took a special flight to New Delhi.
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