Newly appointed BJP Karnataka president BY Vijayendra met HD Deve Gowda, who suggested that the two parties should fight the Lok Sabha elections together. | Bengaluru News
The 47-year-old, who is a first-time MLA from Shikaripura in Shivamogga district, replaced Nalin Kumar Kateel, a three-time Lok Sabha member from Dakshina Kannada, who had completed his three-year term as BJP state president and was given an extension last year in view of the assembly elections held in May this year. The party, which was ousted from power by the Congress in the elections, has not yet decided on the opposition leader in the Karnataka assembly.
Possible names are pending with the high command, which may not push them ahead of the ongoing Assembly polls. State BJP may be up for another Assembly Session without an LoP