BSY won’t continue for long, people on top fed up: Karnataka BJP leader

While there has been speculation of the BJP high command intending to affect a change in the chief minister’s post in Karnataka, and several leaders also acknowledge “off the record” such a possibility, the state BJP has until now maintained that no changes have been proposed.

Yatnal, who has been engaged in a feud with Yediyurappa after he was not inducted into the state cabinet, said the next CM would be from northern Karnataka since the region gives the BJP the majority of its seats in the Assembly.

“People are now wondering if the present CM is chief minister of Shimoga (central Karnataka) or all of Karnataka. It is the voters of north Karnataka who decide on who should be the chief minister in the BJP,” Yatnal said. “Even the BJP leadership has realised that it is north Karnataka that contributes the maximum seats to the BJP and they want to make someone from north Karnataka the chief minister,” he said.