Bengaluru: BJP High Command has appointed B.S. Yeddyurappa as the new chief of the Karnataka unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), sources said.
The BJP party chief Amit Shah has reportedly asked BSY to take over the charge from Prahlad Joshi. Yeddyurappa is former chief minister of Karnataka and is currently the national vice president of the BJP. He is the Lok Sabha member too.

The current president of Karnataka unit of BJP is Pralhad V. Joshi.

Yeddyurappa became the frontrunner to take up the post of the party’s Karnataka unit after the Supreme Court last year declined to intervene and revoke a Karnataka High Court order putting on hold his prosecution in a case under the Prevention of Corruption Act.

Yeddyurappa first became the President of State BJP in 1988 and went on to lead the state BJP twice.