<p class="title">MLC <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/district/lets-think-about-lingayat-issue-after-polls-shettar-665300.html" target="_blank">Pradeep Shettar</a>, the younger brother of former chief minister Jagadish Shettar, predicted that State BJP president B S Yeddyurappa would become the chief minister after Ganesh Chaturthi.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"We won't make any efforts to topple the JD(S)-Congress coalition government. It will collapse on its own; due to infighting. Then, Yeddyurappa will be the chief minister," he claimed.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Shettar, who <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/content/665647/jagadish-shettars-brother-pradeep-gets.html" target="_blank">received death threats in March</a> of this year, spoke to reporters in Hubballi on Wednesday. He said that the BJP would come back to power in Hubballi-Dharwad Municipal Corporation (HDMC) in March next year. "The BJP government will be ruling the state then. The development of the twin cities and North Karnataka will get a boost," he noted. He termed the H D Kumaraswamy-led government as 'anti-Karnataka'.</p>.<p class="CrossHead"><strong>Protest on Sept. 6</strong></p>.<p class="bodytext">BJP MLCs led by Kota Shrinivas Pujari will stage a protest near the Mahatma Gandhi statue at Vidhana Soudha, in Bengaluru, on September 6, at 11 a.m.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Among others, they will demand tabling of the Anwar Manippady report on encroachment of Wakf properties, and a CBI probe into the 'Wakf property scam'.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"This is a 2.30 lakh crore scam involving 27,000 acres of Wakf property. Congress leaders are involved in it. Minority Welfare & Wakfs Minister Zameer Ahmed Khan had, on the floor of the house, assured to order a probe, but failed to do so. The government is being controlled by the Congress," Pradeep Shettar alleged.</p>
<p class="title">MLC <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/district/lets-think-about-lingayat-issue-after-polls-shettar-665300.html" target="_blank">Pradeep Shettar</a>, the younger brother of former chief minister Jagadish Shettar, predicted that State BJP president B S Yeddyurappa would become the chief minister after Ganesh Chaturthi.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"We won't make any efforts to topple the JD(S)-Congress coalition government. It will collapse on its own; due to infighting. Then, Yeddyurappa will be the chief minister," he claimed.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Shettar, who <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/content/665647/jagadish-shettars-brother-pradeep-gets.html" target="_blank">received death threats in March</a> of this year, spoke to reporters in Hubballi on Wednesday. He said that the BJP would come back to power in Hubballi-Dharwad Municipal Corporation (HDMC) in March next year. "The BJP government will be ruling the state then. The development of the twin cities and North Karnataka will get a boost," he noted. He termed the H D Kumaraswamy-led government as 'anti-Karnataka'.</p>.<p class="CrossHead"><strong>Protest on Sept. 6</strong></p>.<p class="bodytext">BJP MLCs led by Kota Shrinivas Pujari will stage a protest near the Mahatma Gandhi statue at Vidhana Soudha, in Bengaluru, on September 6, at 11 a.m.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Among others, they will demand tabling of the Anwar Manippady report on encroachment of Wakf properties, and a CBI probe into the 'Wakf property scam'.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"This is a 2.30 lakh crore scam involving 27,000 acres of Wakf property. Congress leaders are involved in it. Minority Welfare & Wakfs Minister Zameer Ahmed Khan had, on the floor of the house, assured to order a probe, but failed to do so. The government is being controlled by the Congress," Pradeep Shettar alleged.</p>