Bangalore: Hit by a barrage of allegations of corruption and intense power struggle among its leaders, the ruling BJP in Karnataka is holding a two-day brainstorming session to give lessons on morality and discipline to its legislators from Friday.
The 'Chintan Manthan' will engage in serious talk with MLAs, MLCs and MPs at a private resort in Bangalore to refurbish the party's image which took a severe beating recently after the porn row that took place inside the Assembly.
Concerned over the plummeting popularity graph of the party's first ever government in the south with at least half a dozen ministers and as many legislators facing allegations of misuse of authority, acts of favouritism and nepotism, the BJP high command is going all out to set its house in order.
BJP President Nitin Gadkari will address the meeting on Friday. The meeting comes at a time when the state unit is divided between former Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa and his successor DV Sadananda Gowda.
Party sources say Gadkari, who is busy in the elections being held in five states in North, would be returning to Delhi on Friday.
On the eve of the session, Yeddyurappa hosted a lunch for legislators in a show of strength and to send a signal to his party high command that he should either be reinstated as chief minister or given some "position".
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