Bengaluru: In all, 30 candidates, together with three every from the ruling BJP and the Opposition Congress and one from Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) are in the fray for one Lok Sabha and two legislative meeting by-elections in Karnataka on April 17, an official stated on Sunday (March 4).
“After the last date of withdrawal of nominations on Saturday, 10 candidates are in the fray for the Belgaum Lok Sabha seat, 12 for Basavakalyan and eight for Maski (reserved) assembly seats in Bidar and Raichur districts of the state,” a ballot official informed IANS.
Of the 30 candidates for the three by-elections, 26 are males and 4 are ladies, whereas 14 of them are independents.
BJP has fielded Mangala, widow of former Union Minister of State for Railways Suresh Angadi, whose sudden dying resulting from Covid on September 23, 2020 prompted the emptiness in the Belgaum parliamentary constituency.
Angadi had received the high-profile seat in the state`s northwest area for the fourth consecutive time period since 2004.
Congress has fielded its state unit working president Satish Jarkiholi towards Mangala.
Satish, 58, is a Congress legislator from the Yemakanmardi meeting seat in the border district of the state.
Satish can also be the youthful brother of the ruling BJP`s tainted former state minister Ramesh Jarkiholi, who’s embroiled in the sleaze CD that has rocked the state lately.
Though the JD-S will not be contesting in Belgaum and Maski, it has fielded Syed Yasrab Ali Quadri for Basavakalyan towards Mallamma of Congress and Saharanu Salaga of BJP and others.
Mallamma is the widow of B. Narayan Rao, whose dying resulting from Covid on September 24, 2020 prompted the emptiness in the seat.
Former BJP legislator Mallikarjun Khuba can also be contesting in Basavakalyan as an Independent after the ruling occasion denied ticket to him.
In Maski, BJP`s contestant is Pratapgouda Patil, who resigned from the seat in July 2019 and defected from Congress. Patil`s disqualification beneath the anti-defection regulation prompted the emptiness in the reserved seat.
Congress fielded Basavanagoud Turvihal who misplaced to Patil in the May 2018 meeting elections as a BJP candidate and joined the Opposition occasion lately.
In the May 2019 normal elections, BJP received 25 of the 28 Lok Sabha seats from the southern state, Congress (2) and one Independent.
In the 225-member state Assembly, BJP has 118, Congress 67, Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) 32, Independents (2), BSP (1), speaker (1), nominated (1) and vacant (3).
In the 15 meeting by-elections held on December 5, 2019, BJP received 12, Congress (2) and an impartial (1).
In the dual by-polls held in Bengaluru`s RR Nagar and Sira in Tumakur district on November 2020 amid the Covid pandemic, the BJP wrested each seats from the Congress and JD-S respectively.
By-election to the Sindgi meeting seat in Vijayapura district is but to be introduced although it fell vacant because of the dying of its sitting JD-S member M C Managuli resulting from Covid on January 28 at a non-public hospital in Bengaluru.
Managuli, 85, was a cupboard minister in the 14-month-old JD-S Congress coalition authorities, which fell on July 23, 2019 after its Chief Minister H. D. Kumaraswamy misplaced the belief vote in the state legislative meeting following the resignation of 17 legislators of each events in the identical month (July 2019).
Managuli`s son Ashok, who joined Congress lately, will likely be its candidate in the by-election when held.
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