Haveri (Karnataka) [India], April 15 (ANI): Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Saturday filed a nomination from Shiggaon Meeting constituency for the upcoming state elections.
Earlier than submitting nomination papers, Bommai visited Shri Siddharoodha Math in Hubli and provided particular puja.
The 224-seat Meeting will go to polls on Could 10, and the votes will probably be counted on Could 13.
The Bharatiya Janata Occasion (BJP) introduced the names of 189 candidates within the first record on April 11 and 23 candidates within the second record on April 12. The primary record featured 52 contemporary faces and eight ladies.
A complete of seven sitting MLAs couldn’t make it to the second record.
As per the record, Nagaraja Chabbi who just lately joined BJP from the Congress has been given the ticket to contest from the Kalghatgi constituency.
Ashwini Sampangi the daughter of ex-MLA Y Sampangi will contest from Kolar gold fields (KGF).
NR Santosh who’s an in depth relative of former Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa didn’t discover a place on the second record. GV Basavaraju obtained a ticket to battle from the Arsikere constituency.
From the Mudigere constituency, Deepak Doddaiah has been given the ticket by the social gathering. The sitting MLA from Mudigere Kumar Swamy couldn’t make it to the record.
BJP has given the ticket to Gururaj Gantihole from the Byndoor constituency. He replaces sitting MLA Sukumar Shetty who didn’t get the ticket.
Within the newly launched record, Shivakumar obtained the ticket from Channagiri which was the seat of Madal Virupakshappa. It needs to be famous that none from Madal Virupakshappa’s household discovered their place on the record.
Lately Madal Virupakshappa’s household was concerned in a corruption case which led to an FIR and Lokayukta raid.
The names of the candidates for the 12 constituencies are nonetheless remaining to be declared by BJP which incorporates constituencies of Hubli Dharwad Central, Krishnaraja, Shivamogga, Mahadevpura and many others.
In the meantime, displeasure by a number of Karnataka BJP leaders got here out after the social gathering launched the names of candidates.
In a serious blow to the ruling BJP forward of the Karnataka polls, former deputy chief minister Laxman Savadi joined the Congress social gathering, after being denied a ticket by BJP.
Savadi met the Congress’s state president Shivakumar and the Chief of Opposition within the Meeting Siddaramaiah on the latter’s residence in Bengaluru.
Savadi, on April 12, had resigned as a Legislative Council member and from the first membership of the BJP after lacking out on a ticket to hunt a contemporary mandate from his Meeting constituency, Athani.
Alternatively, supporters of sitting BJP MLA from Belagavi North, Anil Benake staged a protest on Tuesday night after he was denied a ticket within the upcoming Karnataka Meeting elections.
Additional, supporters of BJP MLA Mahadevappa Yadawad protested in Ramdurg constituency in Belagavi over the ticket being denied to him. Chikka Revana who joined the BJP just lately obtained the ticket from the constituency.
Within the 2018 polls, the BJP emerged as the most important single social gathering, successful 104 seats, with the Congress after which ally JD(S) bagging 80 and 37 seats respectively.
The time period of the present Karnataka Legislative Meeting will finish on Could 24. (ANI)
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