Restless Yeddy curls up jail bed ahead of D-Day

Former chief minister and his aides are hopeful of a favourable verdict today scamscarred leader enjoys special perks such as foam matress and LCD TV relishes homemade food brought by power mininster Shobha Karandlaje The seat of power surely did not prove a bed of roses for B S Yeddyurappa with him landing in jail But for now the former chief minister is reclining on the Kurlon bed allocated to him following his doctors prescription to cushion the hardship of his prison stay and is pensive about spending a restless night ahead of the DDay Power minister Shobha Karandlaje has been visiting her close friend B S Yeddyurappa almost everyday and infallibly offering him homemade food since October 15 when the former chief minister was shifted to jail from hospitalAccording to sources the scamtainted BJP stalwart who has been languishing in jail for around a month now is hoping for a favourable verdict on his bail plea todayVIP visitorsThough he may be in solitary confinement Yeddyurappa still relishes homemade food brought by power minister Shobha Karandlaje and he stillu00a0 enjoys the company of friends albeit inside the jailThe list of visitors also includes loyalists and ministers M P Renukacharya V Somanna and Basavaraja Bommai The leaders normally come during the early part of the day Shoba comes here in the night with dinner And everyday she holds a private meeting with the jailed leader said a sourceWith support pouring in from Yeddyurappas aides including his Man Friday Siddalingaswamy even camping in jail to ensure his comfortable stay the former chief minister appears to be gradually feeling at home here Special perksAccording the jail sources apart from his friends and supporters visiting him regularly Yeddyurappa has also been extended special comforts like an LCD TV Also some of the inmates have been deputed to give him a massage from time to timeLast month Yeddyurappa staged a highvoltage drama when in a desperate bid to evade a jail stay he got himself admitted in hospitals on health grounds for two days He was however shifted back to the jail following scathing media reports on his hospitalhopping spree and chiding from the party high command leaving the Lingayat leader redfacedYeddyurappa was sent to jail on October 15 after the Lokayukta special court rejected his bail plea in two of the five cases of land scam filed against him by two JDsbacked lawyers Of the two cases for which has been sent to custody the High Court has already granted him bail in one case last week And he is hopeful of getting bail in the second case today and walk free as arguments on the plea are almost over Verbal duelMeanwhile state BJP president K S Eshwarappas jail visit yesterday has fueled speculations of a tiff between him and Yeddyurappa They are reportedly at loggerheads over the issue of holding the reins of the party in the state Eswarappa who visited Yeddyurappa to discuss Sriramulus candidature in the Bellary rural bypolls is said to have got into a heated argument with the jailed leaderEswarappa however contested the claims I visited Yeddyurappa as a party colleague and there was no need to argue with him on anything he said