That's the strategy Chief Minister Yeddyurappa seems to have adopted, as he plans to offer cabinet berths to rebel MLAs to split their campu00a0

Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa appears to have resorted to the oldest trick in the booku00a0-- divide and conquer. The CM is using the carrot on the stick routine by offering cabinet berths to dissidents to lure a few to his side, in the effort to divide their camp. Yeddyurappa's other strategy of choice while threatening to shatter the dream of dissidents to form an alternative government, is by splitting the party to disallow anyone staking
claims to form the government.

Tasty carrot? Leaders from the rebel camp said they would not be
swayed by Yeddyurappa's tricks. File pic

The dissidents, led by BJP State President K S Eshwarappa, Member of Parliament H N Ananthkumar, representing Bangalore (South), and Minister of Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Jagadish Shettar, have revived the campaign to oust the CM soon after polling for the three assembly constituencies ended on Sunday.