Karnataka BJP, angry over not getting ticket, has left the party including former CM and Deputy CM, including Minister in Karnataka Government and 6-time MLA S Angara, MLA Laxman Savadi, former Deputy CM of the state, Hubli-Dharwad (Central) MLA Jagdish Shettar, Mudigere MLA MP Kumaraswamy, Haveri MLA Nehru Olekar Hosdurga MLA Golihatti, Shekhar Kudligi MLA NY Gopalakrishna.

Minister and MLA KS Eshwarappa has taken retirement from electoral politics, which means he will remain in politics but will not contest elections. Raghupati Bhatt, BJP MLA from Udipi, who was denied ticket, broke down while talking to the media, saying that he did not expect such behavior from the BJP. He said that he did not expect such behavior from BJP