Who is Yeddyurappa, the one-time clerk who has been sworn in as the CM again in Bengaluru

A hardboiled RSS Swayamsevak, 75-year-old Bookanakere Siddalingappa Yeddyurappa, joined the Hindu right organisation when he was barely 15, and cut his political teeth in the Jana Sangh, the BJP's forerunner, in his hometown Shikaripura in Shivamogga district. He became the Jana Sangh's Shikaripura taluka chief in the early 1970s.

Who is Yeddyurappa, the one-time clerk who has
Yeddyurappa has been controversy's favourite child. Image source: PTI

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