Former Karnataka chief minister B S Yeddyurappa was arrested on Saturday on charges of illegally garnering prize real estate for himself and his family, an embarrassment that could seriously dent BJP’s anti-corruption crusade and leave the party’s only southern government wobbly. The BJP strongman who built the party into a formidable force in Karnataka and formed its first government in the south found himself to be undertrial No. 10462 in Bangalore’s Parappana Agrahara Central Jail after a judge remanded him to judicial custody for a week. Such has been the dramatic fall from grace for Yeddyurappa. While he weathered the dissidence, he was undone by his family which contracted a large number of questionable business deals that involved Yeddyurappa denotifying large tracts of expensive land in Bangalore in favour of his sons and son-in-law’s associates in the two-and-a-half years he was in power. The arrest comes two-and-a-half months after Yeddyurappa was forced to resign as chief minister by the BJP high command following strictures against him in Lokayukta Justice Santosh Hegde’s mining report.
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