BJP latest: Gowda out, Shettar in

Unable to resist the pressure from the party’s Lingayat faction led by BS Yeddyurappa, the BJP is learnt to have decided on Saturday to replace Karnataka Chief Minister Sadananda Gowda with Jagadish Shettar. The change of guard comes less than a year before assembly elections in the state, giving Karnataka its third BJP chief minister since the party won power in 2008.

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