Bengaluru: The state BJP office has denied receiving the letter signed by some senior BJP leaders expressing  displeasure over BJP state president B S Yeddyurappa’s style of functioning.
The office of Yeddyurappa insisted that of the 24 leaders who have purportedly signed the letter, 10 of them have denied the knowledge of the letter.  BJP state office secretary Keshava Prasad has clarified that the purported letter written by a few party leaders and given to party office is not correct. “No such letter has been received by state office,’’ Keshava Prasad said.

In a WhastApp message to the media, a spokesman of Yeddyurappa’s office said, “Ten leaders whose names were mentioned as signatories have said they were not told about the contents of the letter and hence they were disassociating themselves from the letter.”

However, BJP state general secretary Aravind Limbavali, a close associate of Yeddyurappa, issued a press note saying that the party office has not received any letter.

Limbavali said, “Of the 24 leaders, Vishweshwara Hegde Kageri, Raghunanth Malkapure, Narayanaswamy Bhandge, M?S?Somalingappa, Chandra Naik, Ashwathnarayan, Srikanth Kulkarni and Mahesh Tenginakai have not signed any letter. They were contacted by me and another general secretary, N?Ravikumar. They said their names have been misused in the letter.”