Jagadish Shettar, a former chief minister of Karnataka, claimed on Tuesday that the BJP’s national leadership had instructed him to make room for others and that he would not be given a ticket to run in the Assembly elections on May 10. The choice, he claimed, had damaged him and was not “acceptable” to him. Shettar claimed he had asked the authorities to reconsider, and he had been informed that the subject will be brought up again.