As pressure mounts on BS Yediyurappa, here are BJP's frontrunners for next Karnataka CM

The buzz about a change in leadership in Karnataka has been on for the past three-four months. Several BJP MLAs have hit out at Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa in the public and levelled corruption charges against him. The BJP top brass reportedly has started looking for a new CM face. Here are the possible frontrunners.

With Karnataka's political circles abuzz about a possible change in leadership in the state, indicating that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is likely to replace Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa with a "younger face", the search to find the next chief minister has begun. BJP's top leadership is learnt to have taken feedback about suitable candidates from several sources, including the Intelligence Bureau, private backroom advisors, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and bureaucrats.