Caretaker Chief Minister and BJP leader Basavaraj Bommai, a front-runner for the post of the Leader of the Opposition in the newly-elected Karnataka Assembly, on Monday met RSS leaders and discussed with them the ways to reorganise and revamp the party organisation following the electoral setback on May 13. He said State President Nalin Kumar Kateel and other state leaders would also hold discussion on the poll defeat. Central leadership would be taking a call to revamp the organisation in Karnataka with a sharp eye on the Lok Sabha poll which are only 10-11 months away. BJP had won 25 out of 28 Lok Sabha seats from Karnatka in 2019 Lok Sabha poll and contributed substantially to its overall tally. This was Bommai’s first visit to the BJP’s ideological parent organisation’s state headquarters ‘Keshava Krupa’ in Bengaluru after the poll results on last Saturday.
“We have discussed the overall poll results. We have also discussed how to organise the party in the days to come with the guidance (of RSS). Our state President (Nalin Kumar Kateel) and leadership will also hold discussions, and after that we will discuss on how to organise the party in the days to come,” Bommai told r newspersons as he emerged from the RSS office in the State Capital. Bommai said on Sunday that the Karnataka BJP has decided to do a detailed analysis of the overall poll results and also constituency-wise statistics, to find out the reasons for the party’s poll debacle.
Refuting the Congress’s claim that it is Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s defeat, he said multiple factors have contributed to the party’s performance and they will all be analysed; a meeting of all newly-elected members and candidates will be held soon in this regard.