Bengaluru, 26 March

Party's veteran leader BS Yediyurappa on Tuesday said efforts are on to resolve all the issues. This was amid simmering discontent within BJP in various constituencies, following the announcement of candidates for the Lok Sabha polls. He will be visiting Davangere and Belagavi on Wednesday to resolve issues there.

Yediyurappa on Monday met outgoing Davangere MP GM Siddeshwar whose wife Gayatri is the BJP candidate from there.

Former party legislators MP Renukacharya and SA Ravindranath have been openly expressing their Opposition to her candidacy. In the Belagavi Lok Sabha segment, there is resentment within the party over former chief minister Jagadish Shettar being given the ticket.

Several local party leaders are opposing his candidature as Shettar, who is from Hubballi-Dharwad has been given the ticket, side-lining aspirants in Belagavi. There is also some disgruntlement in several other constituencies, like Chikkaballapur, Koppal, Shivamogga, Haveri, Tumakuru, Bidar, Raichur and Chitradurga.

On Monday, Yediyurappa and other senior leaders of BJP held talks with sitting Koppal MP Karadi Sanganna who had threatened to revolt, after being denied the ticket to re-contest. The party gave the Koppal ticket to Basavaraj Kyavator.

A section of BJP workers protested against BJP's decision to field former minister K Sudhakar from Chikkaballapur. They were demanding a ticket for Alok, son of Yelahanka MLA SR Vishwanath. Yediyurappa last week visited Tumakuru to meet a sulking former Minister JC Madhuswamy, who was upset over a ticket being given to V Somanna.

In Bidar, BJP MLAs Prabhu Chauhan and Sharanu Salgar are upset over the party re-nominating Union Minister Bhagwanth Khuba from there, despite their opposition. In Shivamogga, another BJP veteran, KS Eshwarappa, has announced his candidature as an Independent against Yediyurappa's son and sitting MP BY Raghavendra. Eshwarappa has blamed Yediyurappa for the party denying the Haveri ticket to his son KE Kantesh, and instead picking former Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai there.