With scam-hit Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa reiterating that he would resign Sunday, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Central observers Arun Jaitley and Rajnath Singh on Saturday began seeking party legislators’ views on a successor to form the second BJP government in the state.

The fear that he did not have enough MLAs who could back him and the possibility of a court battle that could isolate him in state politics might have forced Mr Yeddyurappa to climb down from his earlier stand of dissolving the Ass-embly. According to sour-ces in BJP, at present Mr Yeddyurappa has 35 supporters in his side including nine ministers.

As two senior BJP leaders kicked off consultations to pick a new Chief Minister in Karnataka, some party MPs and MLAs today rallied behind B.S. Yeddyurappa asking its high command to reconsider his re

As two senior BJP leaders kicked off consultations to pick a new chief minister in Karnataka, some party MPs and MLAs on Friday rallied behind B.S. Yeddyurappa asking its high command to reconsider his resignation.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday asked Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa to step down “immediately” following the indictment by the Lokayukta over illegal mining in the state, party spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad said.

Unconfirmed reports are claiming that Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa has finally stepped down from power, after being asked to by the BJP high command.

The BJP central leadership has summoned Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa in the wake of his indictment in the report on illegal mining by Karnataka Lokayukta that was submitted to the government today.

Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa, four ministers, former chief minister H.D. Kumaraswamy and 787 officials should be tried for graft, state Lokayutka (ombudsman) N. Santosh Hegde recommended

With his back to the wall on the eve of Lokayukta Justice N. Santosh Hegde handing in the final report on illegal mining in Karnataka, state chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa has drawn up his war plan, from posturing to a rider that the BJP elect his nominee — energy minister Shobha Karandlaje or higher education minister V.S. Acharya — as the successor.

On the eve of Lokayukta Justice N. Santosh Hegde’s much-awaited “explosive” report, the Karnataka government announced the appointment of Justice Shivaraj V. Patil to the hot seat, an indication that he would asked to take a call on the voluminous document on the role of top politicians, bureaucrats and mining czars in unauthorised excavation and export of precious iron ore.