Bengaluru: BJP state president B S Yeddyurappa returned the Rs 1.15-crore Toyota Land Cruiser Prado to former minister Murugesh Nirani, after a huge hue and cry was raised over it.
BSY was supposed to use the SUV to tour of drought-hit districts. But once it became controversy, he told reporters that he would travel by train.
Yeddyurappa on Sunday issued a press statement saying that he had returned the SUV to Nirani. He said that he had used normal mode of transport in his political life and would be using the same to tour the drought-hit areas.
Yeddyurappa will be touring the drought-hit regions in the state between April 27 and May 1.