Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister C.N. Ashjwath Narayana and Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Minister K.S. Eshwarappa rejected the media reports about the possibility of leadership change, stating separately that Yediyurappa will complete his term in office. Recent rumours that the party's central leaders are planning to replace Yediyurappa by this year-end as he is already aged 77 years is against the BJP's own unwritten law of retirement for its leaders. By the time the Assembly term ends in 2023, he will be 80.
Several other BJP top leaders in the state, Savadi, Narayana and Eshwarappa are visiting their allocated districts to monitor the 'Grama Swarajya', an election campaign designed by the party to win the forthcoming local body polls in the state. Savadi, in Chitradurga district spoke to the reporters said that it is inappropriate even to discuss on a public forum whether their party leader will be changed. "Yediyurappa has got assurance from none other than our party high command that he will be the CM until his term ends (for the next two-and-a-half years)," he said.
Narayana said that reports about replacing Yediyurappa are far from true. "There is not even an iota of truth in these reports," he said While speaking to reporters in Mangaluru. Eshwarappa retaliated the question to the mediapersons why should Yediyurappa be replaced. "Who told you this," he asked. When reporters asserted the statement towards Leader of the Opposition Siddaramaiah's remarks, Eshwarappa said, "Just because he is saying, will our party change our leader just like that?".
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