With about six months left for Lok Sabha elections, the BJP high command on Friday appointed B.Y. Vijayendra, son of former Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa, as president of the State unit.
The 1975 born MLA for Shikaripur replaces Nalin Kumar Kateel who had held the post from August 2019.
Promising to take all senior leaders along, Mr. Vijayendra said his immediate task was clearly cut out: to extensively tour the State, revamp the party and win the “maximum number of seats” in the Lok Sabha elections to ensure the return of Narendra Modi as Prime Minister.