Six months after it lost the Karnataka election, the BJP state unit has got a new president in B Y Vijayendra, the son of veteran BJP leader B S Yediyurappa. | Latest News India
First-time MLA Vijayendra will take over as President of the BJP Karnataka unit on November 15, and the party has organized a workers rally at Bangalore Palace to show his popularity. Vijayendra, the younger son of BJP veteran BS Yediyurappa, is expected to reclaim the support of the dominant Vokkaligas and Lingayats communities in Karnataka.
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.
BY Vijayendra, the 47-year-old legislator from his father’s pocket borough of Shikaripura, was thus far the vice-president of the BJP | Latest News India