Bengaluru: Six months after the Assembly elections in Karnataka, the BJP on Friday named senior MLA R. Ashok as the Leader of the Opposition in the Congress-ruled State.
The official announcement came after the BJP Legislature Party meeting at a private hotel here last evening. The party, which chose a Veerashaiva-Lingayat leader B.Y. Vijayendra, Shikaripur MLA and son of senior party leader and former Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa (BSY), to head the State Unit last week, has now chosen a Vokkaliga as the Leader of the Opposition. The choice of Ashok suggests that the BJP High Command has deferred to the demands of BSY, the Lingayat strongman.
