Mr. BS Yeddyurappa the Former Karnataka Chief Minister and Karnataka Janata Party chief has written to the top BJP leadership, indicating his want to join the National Democratic Alliance or NDA.

In a letter addressed to LK Advani, Mr Yeddyurappa writes, “We… request you to think about US an alliance party of NDA and involve US in all the deliberations of NDA by inviting KJP to any or all the conferences.”

Mr Yeddyurappa shares an uneasy relationship with Mr Advani once the BJP patriarch openly asked him to quit as Chief Minister last year over illegal mining deals in Karnataka.

The 70-yrs old leader, one of the tallest leaders of the powerful Lingayat community in his state, also met Subramanian Swamy, who recently integrated his Janata Party with the BJP.

Mr Yeddyurappa, who quit the BJP during a huff last year to create his own outfit, is a known Narendra Modi admirer.

Mr Modi had hinted that “friends” like Mr Yeddyurappa ought to be brought back to the party ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, due by may next year.

Mr Yeddyurappa’s party failed to create a mark of its own within the Karnataka Assembly polls however contend spoilsport to the chances of the BJP, whose only government in south India broken resulting in the resurrection of the Congress after a long hiatus.