BSY opens new office,to shift to own house

On June 1,he is also set to move out of a government bungalow he had considered lucky and occupied for the past five years refusing to move out when he was forced to quit as CM in 2011 to be replaced by D V Sadananda Gowda,and despite the house being allocated to a State Planning Commission deputy chairman.

The Race View Cottage where Yeddyurappa lived had been considered a lucky home by the highly superstitious former chief minister since he lived in the house when the BJP was voted to power in Karnataka in 2008 under his leadership.

With a CBI case against him,Yeddyurappa,who no longer holds any position in the government,does not consider his government bungalow lucky any more. The cottage was among those raided by the CBI on May 16.

He will now only occupy his private home Davalagiri in the upmarket Dollars Colony and will use his new office to locate what is now tentatively being called the Karnataka Janata Party if he decides to break

away from BJP sources close to the former chief minister said.

On Friday,when Yeddyurappa opened his new office,one of the distinctive features of the event was the absence of his usual entourage of supporters. Seen among those at the inauguration was only one MLA,diehard supporter B P Harish,apart from Yeddyurappas elder son B Y Raghavendra.