BJP leaders Arun Jaitley and Rajnath Singh are in Bangalore to oversee the election of a new legislative party leader.
Yeddyurappa's demands have been reportedly conveyed to BJP troubleshooter Dharmendra Pradhan after Yeddyurappa's breakfast meeting with his supporters at his residence.
"Yeddyurappa's proposed candidate should become chief minister and Yeddyurappa should be the party president. This is our demand," BP Harish, MLA and a close associate of Yeddyurappa said.
The demands have been made to the party at a time when it is in the process of zeroing in on a new chief minister for Karnataka. Meanwhile, MP DB Chandre Gowda has urged the party to reconsider the decision of asking Yeddyurappa to step down.
Pradhan has reportedly conveyed this message to the party bosses and has asked to pick an alternative leader before the situation could turn alarming.
Besides being a first time MLA, party sources said Shobha is not acceptable to everyone in the party. State BJP president KS Eshwarappa, former party president DV Sadananda Gowda, general secretary Ananth Kumar, rural development and panchayat raj (RDPR) minister Jagadish Shettar, law and urban development minister S Suresh Kumar and higher education minister VS Acharya are top contenders for the post.
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