Shah to attend OBCs' meet in Bengaluru on Nov 27

BJP national president Amit Shah will attend a convention of other backward classes to be held here on November 27.

BJP MLC and former minister B J Puttaswamy said the convention will be held at Palace Grounds and will highlight the support of the OBCs to the BJP.

Puttaswamy, who is also the chairman of the BJP OBC Morcha, said the party was trying to mobilise two lakh people for the event. The convention will highlight the popular programmes implemented for OBCs when B S Yeddyurappa was the chief minister.

The convention is seen as a move by BJP state president Yeddyurappa to counter his colleague K S Eshwarappa. Eshwarappa has been associating himself with Sangolli Rayanna Brigade to consolidate the support of dalits and OBCs, defying Yeddyurappa’s diktat that such mobilisation should be done within the party forum.

The BJP has scheduled a convention of STs at Lingsagur in Raichur district on Sunday.