Chitradurga, May 9 -- Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday attended the 'Yediyurappa Abhimanotsava', organised to mark 50 years of the political journey of former Karnataka Chief Minister and veteran Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader B S Yediyurappa, hailing his decades-long public service and contribution to farmers as well as to the party organisation.

Addressing the gathering here, Shah said, "Our ideology has won such a massive victory in Bengal... Today, on behalf of crores of BJP workers, I have come here to honour the senior BJP leader and the country's farmer leader B.S. Yediyurappa."

Referring to the timing of the event, Shah added, "When the date was decided, it was not known that today would be the swearing-in ceremony...