D.V. Sadananda Gowda was Wednesday set to be the new chief minister of Karnataka after he was elected leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislature wing, narrowly defeating Jagadish Shettar in secret ballot.

Slogan shouting and jostling marred the election of Gowda, a Lok Sabha member from Udupi-Chickmagalur, about 400 km from here. He is also a close associate of outgoing and scam-hit chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa.