NEW DELHI: The Congress within the early hours of Thursday launched its sixth and closing record of 5 candidates for the upcoming Karnataka meeting elections. In the ultimate record, Mohammed Shalem was fielded from Raichur, BV Rajeev Gowda from Sidlaghatta, S Anand Kumar from C V Raman Nagar (SC), HP Sridhar Gowda from Arkalgud, and Inayath Ali from Mangalore City North. The occasion had on Wednesday changed Mohammed Yousuf Savanur as its candidate from the Shiggaon constituency in Karnataka, at the moment below Chief Minister Basavraj Bommai, and fielded Yasir Ahmed Khan Pathan as a substitute from there. Bommai had defeated Congress candidates Sayed Azeempeer Khadri Shiggaon within the 2018 elections.
The occasion launched its fifth record on Wednesday of three new candidates, fielding B C Muddugangadhar from the Mulbagal (SC) seat, D Okay Mohan from Okay R Pura, and A C Srinivasa from the Pulakeshinagar — SC seat. With the sixth record, the Congress has introduced 223 candidates, marking one seat within the 224-member meeting for Sarvodaya Karnataka Party, a regional outfit.
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The Congress on Wednesday introduced its fifth record of three candidates for the May 10 Assembly elections, changing the one in opposition to Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai in Shiggaon. The occasion has fielded A C Srinivasa from Pulakeshinagar by denying ticket to its sitting MLA R Akhanda Srinivasa Murthy, who filed nomination as an impartial candidate on Wednesday after it was clear that he is not going to be renominated.
Murthy, a Dalit, had received the 2018 meeting election with the very best margin of 81,626 votes, making a file. Murthy’s home together with the DJ Halli police station was torched by a violent mob in August 2020, over a social media put up shared by his relative.
In Bengaluru’s Okay R Puram, Congress has fielded D Okay Mohan in opposition to BJP’s Byrathi Suresh, a Minister within the Basavaraj Bommai authorities. Interestingly, Suresh had received the seat on Congress ticket within the 2018 Assembly polls. He was among the many 17 Congress-JD(S) MLAs who resigned, which had led to the collapse of the coalition authorities and paved the best way for BJP to come back to energy in 2019. In the following bypolls he received on BJP ticket.
In Mulbagal, the occasion has fielded B C Muddugangadhar. In 2018, the seat was received by impartial candidate H Nagesh, who’s now Congress candidate from Mahadevapura section in Bengaluru. The Congress has to this point introduced candidates for 219 out of complete 224 seats (together with in Melukote the place it is backing a candidate of a distinct occasion).
The final date for submitting of nominations is April 20. The meeting polls within the state held by BJP will happen on May 10 and the outcomes will likely be introduced on May 13.
