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    Yeddyurappa to head BJP in Karnataka

    BJP on Friday appointed former Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa as Karnataka unit president and its Phulpur MP and a prominent OBC face Keshav Prasad Maurya to head its Uttar Pradesh unit.

    Yeddyurappa to head BJP in Karnataka
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    B S Yeddyurappa

    New Delhi

    By appointing Yeddyurappa, a prominent lingayat face, the party decided to bank on its old warhorse in Karnataka.

    He was earlier forced to resign as Chief Minister over graft allegations and quit the party to form his own outfit. Yeddyurappa, who is Lok Sabha member from Shimoga, returned to BJP ahead of 2014 general election. In Uttar Pradesh, the party decided to field an OBC face as the party gears up for the crucial polls next year.

    Maurya has been associated with RSS since early years. While Uttar Pradesh is slated to go to polls in early 2017, elections are due in Karnataka before May 2018.

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