SHIVAMOGGA/BENGALURU: Former Karnataka CM and veteran BJP politician BS Yediyurappa announced on Friday his retirement from electoral politics and declared that his son, party state vice president BY Vijayendra, will contest the 2023 assembly polls from his Shikaripur constituency, which he has represented eight times.
“I won’t contest the next elections from Shikaripur. Vijayendra will contest in my place. I pray to the people of Shikaripur with folded hands to make him victorious with a bigger margin,” Yediyurappa, 79, said at Anjanapura, in Shikaripur, Shivamogga district.