BENGALURU : Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yediyurappa on Tuesday said that he was consulted before the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leadership at the centre decided the candidates for the Rajya Sabha polls from the state."We had decided some names in the core committee and sent it to the centre but the national president discussed this with me and told me it was decided to extend this chance to ordinary workers," the chief minister said.The BJP named Ashok Gasti and Eranna Kadadi, two relatively unknown faces in the BJP, as its choice for the upper house from Karnataka, baffled its state leadership.The sidestepping of the proposal of candidates by the state unit further fuels speculation of the growing strain between Yediyurappa and the.