Yeddyurappa’s most awaited ‘Breaking News at 5 pm’ turns out to be claptrap

Team Udayavani, Mar 17, 2018, 9:24 AM IST

Bengaluru: BJP state president B S Yeddyurappa’s greatly built up “Breaking News at 5 pm” declaration on his Twitter on Thursday ended up being an immense disappointment as he wound up scrutinizing the state Congress in a five-minute video.

Yeddyurappa’s “Breaking News” tweet had created a lot of excitement and people started expecting him to reveal a big scam to an announcement of a top leader from the opposition parties joining BJP.

A video was released by BSY but the video was uploaded at around 5.50 pm on Friday and the delay provoked the Congress to jump start a full scale media war against the BJP. “Yeddyurappa’s ‘Breaking News’ range from ditching the BJP to being imprisoned. Expect more Nuisance than News! #BJP420,” Congress social media cell tweeted.

There was frustration among the individuals who had expected “something important” from Yeddyurappa with some comparing it with his past failure. When the BJP leader reported that his party had succeeded with regards to getting the Mahadayi River water dispute settled.

A couple of party workers even thronged Yeddyurappa’s Shivamogga house, where he was present, pondering about the postponement in the “enormous announcement”.

Yeddyurappa’s video, which was additionally transferred to his Facebook page, starts with the subtitle “Breaking News”.

The Congress meanwhile uploaded a moment long video on the “contradictory statements” made by Yeddyurappa restricting the BJP’s stand on different issues, when he headed the KJP.

In the big announcement video the camera at that point centres around Yeddyurappa who charges the Congress government drove by Siddaramaiah of deceiving the general population of Karnataka. “The 10% government has duped the general population of Karnataka and has put a brake on the development, improvement story of the state,” he said.

He at that point talks on the mounting debt trouble of the state, absence of advance in farming, industrial and service parts, low quality education and health, fall in state income and per capital income under the Congress administration. Information designs with an examination of these segments amid the Congress and the BJP rule are appeared on the screen to substantiate Yeddyurappa’s claim.

Yeddyurappa’s charges, being a rehash of what he has been expressing from the start, prompted hosts of posts on the online networking which expressed that Congress leader M Veerappa Moily – with his tweet charging “nexus” between Public Works Minister H C Mahadevappa and road contractual workers – had given greater breaking news than Yeddyurappa.