In Karnataka, a southern Indian state, a police officer was killed by Maoists in 2011.
Mr. Yeddyurappa denied the allegations and also quit the BJP to form the Karnataka Janata Paksha.
The BJP runs the government of the state of Karnataka, of which Bangalore is the capital.
More than 120 people were tried in connection with the 1993 landmine at Palar in Karnataka.
But the states of Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka suffered yet another year of drought.
In Karnataka in the south, 20 churches have been desecrated in a few days.
Mr Nilekani tells the story of the triumphant effort to digitise Karnataka's village land records.
Karnataka state government-owned Hutti Gold Mines is the biggest operational mining firm in the country.
"We used to have coffee at home every morning, " says Dashrat Rathod, an engineer from Karnataka.
The party--which hasn't held power in Karnataka since 2004--also won local city polls held there in March.
The BJP was rattled by a split in its ranks after its chief minister in Karnataka, B.
Bangalore in Karnataka state is home to multinational firms like Microsoft, Coca Cola, IBM and Hewlett Packard.
Before the ban, Karnataka produced 45-50 million tons of ore annually, of which about half was exported.
More than 120 people were tried in connection with the 1993 landmine blast at Palar in Karnataka.
In May key elections are to be held in the BJP-run Karnataka state, of which Bangalore is the capital.
The University was recently approved by the state government of Karnataka which enacted a special legislative act in March.
Robusta is mainly cultivated in the southern Indian states of Karnataka and Kerala.
It governs, creditably, in such big states as Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka and Rajasthan.
He denied the allegations and quit the BJP to form the Karnataka Janata Paksha, which was leading in eight seats.
He said the rainfall this year over drought-hit Maharashtra and Karnataka states is expected to be better than last year.
But it is plausible, since several BJP strongholds, such as the states of Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh, have already voted.
Deve Gowda, the current prime minister, is a politician from the southern state of Karnataka with no such emotional ties.
Hiregoudar, professor of political science at Karnataka University, said the win would be "a victory by default" for the Congress party.
Last year, after the party came to power in Karnataka, in the south, the state suffered a rash of anti-Christian violence.
The BJP had pointed to success in Tamil Nadu's neighbour Karnataka in 2008 as evidence that it could branch out southward.
The Karnataka experiment, he points out, has had mixed results elsewhere in India, perhaps because accountants will not be fooled twice.
The Tamil language film was shot in the forests that border the southern states of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka where Veerappan lived.
The south, encompassing the states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala, comprises a little over a fourth of India's population.
The blast took place weeks ahead of key elections in Karnataka state.
The BJP rules Karnataka, where state elections are scheduled for next month.
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