Yediyurappa has two sons – BJP MP B Y Raghavendra and BJP vice-president B Y Vijayendra – and three daughters. All the household runs numerous companies and at the very least two of the youthful members are monetary consultants who studied within the UK. The household reportedly left for the Maldives on August 18 and are anticipated to return on August 23, sources stated.

“That is the primary time in a few years that Yediyurappa is on a household journey exterior the nation and it’s a brief depart from public life,” a BJP chief thought of to be near the previous CM stated.

Yediyurappa, his son Vijayendra, grandson Sashidhar Maradi, son-in-law Virupakshappa Yamakanam-aradi, and granddaughter’s husband Sanjay Sree have been accused of corruption and cash laundering in dealing with authorities contracts in a personal grievance.

The Karnataka Excessive Court docket has issued notices to the previous CM and others 3 after activist T J Abraham moved the court docket for the registration of an FIR to hold out investigations within the matter.

The allegations pertain to alleged bribes amounting to over Rs 12 crore for contracts — together with Rs 5 crore that was obtained final yr by two firms linked to a grandson of the previous CM from a number of shell firms in Kolkata — regardless of the businesses having no income in earlier years.

Yediyurappa had stepped down as CM on the occasion of the BJP management amid rising issues over alleged corruption and interference within the administration by his household. He, nevertheless, stays a key Lingayat chief who is important to the BJP’s electoral fortunes and has stated that he’ll assist the get together to return to energy by itself within the subsequent state Meeting polls, scheduled to be held in 2023.

A number of BJP MLAs and ministers who’re sad over being not noted of the cupboard of latest chief minister Basavaraj Bommai have rallied across the former CM. Tourism Minister Anand Singh, upset over the portfolio he was given, met Yediyurappa final week in his quest to be upgraded to a high-profile ministry.

By the way, the final time that Yediyurappa went overseas together with his prolonged household was in July 2011 to Mauritius — throughout an earlier stint as CM — amid allegations of corruption. Two days after he returned to India, a Lokayukta report on unlawful mining throughout his tenure emerged, dislodging him from energy.

Yediyurappa, his sons and a son-in-law have been later indicted by the CBI in an alleged Rs 40 crore bribery case however have been acquitted by a trial court docket and the matter didn’t escalate.