Taking the initial formal step to be part of NDA, Yeddyurappa today asked it to consider making his party an alliance partner of the NDA.

B S Yeddyurappa has also deputed his close associate and MLC Lehar Singh to visit Delhi and meet senior BJP leaders.

Yeddyurappa has also said a decision on the merger with BJP would be taken at a meeting of senior KJP leaders next week.

Tamil Nadu CM Jayalalithaa today fielded her party's Karnataka unit secretary V Pugazhenthi and four others for the May 5 Assembly polls.

Yeddyurappa today claimed some BJP leaders are competing with each other to unseat Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar.