BJP restores Yediyurappa as party chief in Karnataka

The BJP has fully restored the former Karantaka Chief Minister, Yediyurappa, by appointing him as the president of the Karnataka unit of the party in the overhaul in the party on Friday. Yediyurappa was dismissed from the party for going it alone in the face of charges of corruption against him and his prominent ministers in his ministry. The National Committee of the party announced today that the Telangana unit of the party would be headed by Dr K. Laxman. Tapira Gav would head the BJP in Arunachal pradesh. In the key States going to polls shortly, the BJP appinted Vijay Sampla as the party chief in Punjab and Keshav Prasad in UP. The BJP met on Friday afternoon to decide the appointments. The party would have to repeat its 2014 performance in the parliamentary election in UP where it won 71 of the 80 seats, i.e. over 300 assembly seats to be in the reckoning. The party already faced a virtual defeat in the Bihar assembly poll. On the policy front, the BJP had already failed in bringing back the black money that it had promised to.