The BJP Parliamentary Board has decided to ask Karnataka Chief Minister Yeddyurappa to step down immediately. Briefing News persons after the Board meeting in New Delhi today, party spokesperson Ravishankar Prasad said that all senior leaders of the party have unanimously decided that the leadership of the Karnataka BJP legislature party should be changed. He said senior BJP leaders Arun Jaitley and Rajnath Singh will attend the Party's Legislature meet to be held in Bangalore tomorrow as central observers to elect a new leader.Earlier, BJP top brass also discussed the implication of the Lokayukta report in Karnataka with Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa in New Delhi on Wednesday night.The final report of Lokayukta Justice Santosh Hegde on illegal mining indicts Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa under Prevention of Corruption Act and other provisions under Indian Penal Code, for benefiting from illegal mining. The report was submitted to the Chief Secretary S V Ranganath by Karnataka Lokayukta Registrar Kunhi Nair Moosa on Wednesday evening in Bangalore. Justice Santosh Hegde said, enough evidence is unearthed against the Trust run by Chief Minister’s family for receiving crores of rupees from mine owners in return for favours from the Government.The report also implicates Bellary Ministers – Janardhan Reddy, Karunakara Reddy and Sriramulu. Justice Hegde said clear evidence is found of their involvement in mining in Karnataka, a thing which was strongly refuted by the Reddy brothers. The names of family members of Housing Minister Somanna also figures in the report. Those from the Opposition referred in the report are former Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy and Congress Member of Parliament, Anil Lad’s wife. The report running over 25,000 pages has also blamed 600 top officials for aiding illegal mining in the state. Justice Hegde hoped that Central Empowerment Committee appointed by the Apex Court to probe illegal mining will take cognizance of the report submitted by Lokayukta to the Government. Meanwhile, in Karnataka, some of the council of ministers and party workers from State BJP arrived at the official residence of the Chief Minister in Bangalore and closeted there since morning. Health Minister Sriramulu told media persons outside the Chief Minister's residence today that they will abide by the High Command's decision. After arriving from Delhi this morning, Yeddyurappa had said that he will visit New Delhi again on 31 of this month and call a cabinet meeting in the afternoon.The Congress on the other started the day with a road block all over the state demanding resignation of Yeddyurappa and others named in the Lokayuktha report. The State Party President G Parameshwar welcomed the decision of BJP Parliamentary Board to seek Yeddyurappa’s resignation. He demanded the resignation of other members of the cabinet named in the Lokayuktha report on illegal mining.