New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday expelled KS Eshwarappa from the occasion for six years after the chief determined to contest within the going Lok Sabha election as an Independent candidate from the Shivamogga parliamentary constituency of Karnataka.
The occasion launched an announcement saying that KS Eshwarappa embarrassed the occasion as he was going to contest as an unbiased candidate.
“BJP expelled KS Eshwarappa from the party for 6 years for ’embarrassing’ the party by contesting as an Independent from Shivamogga constituency,” Karnataka BJP mentioned.
Shivamogga Parliamentary constituency goes to the polls on May 7 in part three of Lok Sabha Election 2024.
Former deputy Chief Minister of Karnataka and occasion’s senior chief KS Eshwarappa submitted his nomination papers as an unbiased candidate on April 12 from Shivamogga Lok Sabha seat.
April 22 was the final day to withdraw from the paper, three unbiased candidates who stuffed the nomination earlier, now withdrew their papers. While 23 folks together with former BJP Minister Ok.S. Eshwarappa have remained within the fray.
The candidates who’re going to contest are BJP chief B.Y. Raghavendra of BJP, Congress chief Geetha Shivarajkumar, Karnataka Rashtra Samiti occasion chief S.Ok. Prabhu, Uttama Prajakeeya Party chief Aruna Kanahalli, Young Star Empowerment Party candidate Mohammed Yusuf Khan and Bahujan Samaj Party candidate A.D. Shivappa
On the opposite hand, the record of unbiased candidates consists of the names of KS Eshwarappa, G Jayadeva, EH Nayak, Chandrashekhar HC, Bandi, Sandesh Shetty A, DS Eshwarappa, P Sripathi Bhat, Imtiyaz Attar, Ravi Kumar N, Pooja N Annaiah, Suresh Poojari, (*6*) Swamy, John Benny, Ganesh B., Kunaje Manjunatha Gowda and NV Naveen Kumar.