
The BJP bought peace with the party rebels in Karnataka demanding the removal of B S Yeddyurappa who will continue as chief minister while a coordination committee will oversee its affairs in the state.
A compromise between the warring sides to break the two-week-long stalemate is understood to have been hammered out under which a woman minister may be removed and the Speaker inducted into the Cabinet.
Announcing the "amicable" settlement as a birthday gift to senior BJP leader L K Advani, who turned 83 today, party leader Sushma Swaraj said in the presence of Yeddyurappa and dissident leader G Janardhana Reddy that there are no more 'misunderstandings'.
Swaraj is tipped to head the seven-member Committee that will include the chief minister, senior leader Anant Kumar, state unit president Sadananda Gowda and G Karunakara Reddy, brother of Janardhana Reddy.