Hyderabad, Feb. 20 -- BJP hardliner and Vijayapura MLA Basanagouda Patil Yatnal has become a source of acute embarrassment for the party, Government and Chief Minister B. S. Yeddyurappa by relentlessly firing salvos. Though the party issued a show cause notice on February 12, he shows no sign of silence. In the latest onslaught, he has alleged that CM's son B. Y. Vijeyendra funded the candidates of Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and Congress in Bihar during the recently concluded Assembly elections in the State.

Mr. Yatnal who had been expelled from the party twice earlier, has been targeting the CM for quite some time. Coming as he does from Panchamsali sect of Lingayath community, he has been demanding the inclusion of the sect within the ...