Arun Singh tries to downplay Eshwarappa episode

‘There are no differences and Eshwarappa should not have written the letter’

Bharatiya Janata Party national general secretary and party’s Karnataka in charge Arun Singh on Thursday sought to downplay the episode of senior leader and Minister K.S. Eshwarappa writing to the Governor complaining against interference of Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa in his departmental administration. Mr. Singh, who arrived in the State on Thursday on a four-day visit, told reporters that it was not a matter of concern and reiterated that Mr. Eshwarappa should not have written such a letter to the Governor. “Mr. Eshwarappa is a senior leader and was president of the State BJP unit. He should not have written to the Governor. But, it is not a matter of concern. We are all together. There are no differences,” he told presspersons at the Mangaluru International Airport.