Keep in mind that genuine party workers even from Lingayat community not given seat as they could not match the money power of the mining and real estate mafia.
Yediruppa is so in the clutches of the mining mafia that he scarificed his alliance with JD(S) rather than get into wrong side with this Bellary mafia dons.
During JD(S)-BJP government, the real estate mafia showed maximum activity
