Taking serious note of his statements against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other senior party functionaries, the BJP central leadership on Friday issued show cause notice to BJP MLA from Vijayapura, Basanagouda Patil Yatnal.
"Your intent, utterances and allegations against the party and its leaders constitute a serious breach of the partydiscipline as defined in the constitution and rules of theBharatiya Janata Party," the party Central DisciplinaryCommittee member-secretary Om Pathak said in his notice.
The party leadership took note of his public interviewsbetween October one and three. It noted that he insulted and denigrated the "herculean efforts" being made by the BJP to secure flood relief for Karnataka.
"(You) Threatened the party and its leaders by suggesting to the people of Karnataka and inciting them to teach the party leaders a lesson by thrashing them, thus calling for physical violence and causing unrest among people by spreading lies," the notice read.
It also said he was spreading lies against the party leadership.
Continuing his tirade against the union ministers and MPs from Karnataka over "failure" to get Central grants for flood-hit north Karnataka, Yatnal on Thursday said hewould meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi and take up thematter.
"I will write to the Prime Minister today itself andseek an appointment with him to brief him about the floodsituation, Patil had told reporters in Vijayapura.
He had said other leaders from North Karnataka can join him if they wish, and asked the union ministers to attend to their work and meet the prime minister.
"Go and do your job and meet the Prime Minister.You all are union ministers.Why are you sitting in Hubballi and Bengaluru? Go to Delhi and get Rs 10,000 crore from the Centre, Yatnal said.
Yatnal reminded the MPs that BJP did not come to power just by fluke but by the hard work of workers like him, chief minister B S Yediyurappa and former union ministerlate H N Ananthkumar.
A former union minister, Yatnal has been vocal againstthe BJP leadership, including Union Ministers and MPs fromKarnataka, for the past few days over getting Central grantsto carry out relief works in North Karnataka.
On Tuesday, he had said that the Prime Minister tweetingconcern for Bihar flood victims and not with those affected in Karnataka has made people feel he did not care about the stateas there were no immediate polls there.
The BJP government in Karnataka has come under attackfrom opposition Congress and the JD(S) for its failure to getCentral aid despite 'unprecedented' floods in August ravagedseveral parts of the states.
As many as 103 taluks in 22 districts were affected dueto the floods in August that left over 80 people dead, 1.5lakh houses damaged and over five lakh hectares of farm landscompletely inundated.
Pathak asked Yatnal to furnish his explanation within 10 days from the receipt of the notice asking him why the party should not take disciplinary action against him.
He also said in the event of non-receipt of anyexplanation, the party may assume that he has nothing to sayin the matter and the Central Disciplinary Committee mayproceed accordingly.
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