The state unit of Congress has constituted its screening committee for the upcoming Karnataka meeting election, folks aware of the matter stated on Tuesday.
The committee might be led by senior Congress chief Mohan Prakash, stated the folks. Congress nationwide president Mallikarjun Kharge has given a nod to the screening committee and authorized Prakash because the chairman together with occasion MPs Neeraj Dangi, Mohammad Jawed and Saptagiri Ulaka as its members, stated one of many folks quoted above.
State Congress chief DK Shivakumar, former chief minister Siddaramaiah, AICC in-charge of Karnataka Randeep Singh Surjewala, and senior leaders BK Hariprasad, MB Patil, G Parameshwara and AICC secretaries in-charge of the state might be ex officio members of the panel.
Elections in Karnataka are prone to be held in April-Might. Earlier, the Karnataka Pradesh Election Committee had held a gathering on February 2 to shortlist the candidates. As soon as the committee recommends candidates, the newly shaped screening committee approves the occasion candidates for upcoming polls.
Earlier, Congress had introduced it “will comfortably win 136 seats” in upcoming meeting elections within the state. Talking to reporters, KPCC president Shivakumar stated: “The assembly to finalise the candidates’ record for meeting elections was performed easily with none objections or dissatisfaction amongst leaders”.
“By and enormous all of them have carried out an excellent job. All our MLAs have labored… regardless of being in Opposition and non-cooperation from the BJP authorities, all of them have labored for the folks,” Shivakumar stated whereas replying to a question if all of the sitting MLAs will get the ticket. The Congress at the moment has 69 MLAs within the Karnataka Legislative Meeting.
“The occasion excessive command (from Delhi) had commissioned a survey… we (state unit) too have gotten a survey carried out… holding all that in thoughts, we are going to ship an inventory to the central election committee and screening committee, after which they are going to finalise. We are going to announce the record as quickly as attainable,” he added.
In the meantime, Chief of the Opposition in Karnataka meeting and former chief minister Siddaramaiah on Tuesday attacked the ruling BJP authorities within the state, alleging that the “highest variety of Hindus” have been killed in the course of the tenure of the saffron occasion.
“Throughout our tenure, not solely Hindus however minorities have been additionally killed. They’re all killed for various causes. The murders of Hindus throughout Congress was as a result of RSS and the BJP,” he stated.
“When Paresh Mesta was (discovered) suspiciously lifeless, BJP leaders created big ruckus. The case was handed over to the Central Bureau of Investigation. What occurred later?” he requested.
Mesta’s physique was recovered from a pond underneath mysterious circumstances in Honnavar in Karnataka’s Uttara Kannada district on December 6, 2017, quickly after which communal riots broke out within the space.
Within the report submitted earlier than a neighborhood court docket on Monday in Honnavar, the CBI had acknowledged: “Mesta died after slipping right into a pond whereas making an attempt to run away from a communal conflict”.