Bengaluru: Udupi-Chikkamagaluru MP and Karnataka BJP General Secretary, Shobha Karandlaje on Wednesday added that she has written to the union government to ban Popular Front of India.

Shobha while campaigning for by-elections in Yeshwantpur Constituency said that she wrote letter to the union government after the murderous attack on former Karnataka Minister and senior Congress leader Tanveer Sait on Sunday.

“I had written similar letter to the union government after the murder RSS worker Ramesh in Shivaji Nagar. The organisation should not only be banned in Karnataka but should be banned across the country” Shobha said.

Reports have surfaced alleging role of PFI and its umbrella organisation SDPI in the murderous assault on Tanveer Sait during a wedding ceremony in Mysuru on Sunday. The reports surfaced after the accused turned out to be a member of SDPI.

SDPI and PFI have rubbished all the reports and any such claims and has distanced itself from the attack on Sait.

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Chandigarh (PTI): The Congress on Thursday announced candidates for eight of the nine Lok Sabha seats it is contesting in Haryana, fielding former Union minister Kumari Selja, Rajya Sabha MP Deepender Hooda and youth leader Divyanshu Budhiraja, besides two sitting MLAs.

The party has also fielded former MP Jai Prakash and leaders Satpal Brahmachari and Mahendra Pratap, according to the list released late Thursday evening.

The Congress is contesting nine of the 10 Lok Sabha seats in Haryana. It has not yet announced its candidate for the Gurugram constituency.

The Aam Aadmi Party, a constituent of the opposition INDIA bloc, will contest the Kurukshetra seat.

Congress general secretary and former Union minister Selja will contest from the Sirsa (reserved) seat and sitting MLAs Varun Choudhary and Rao Dan Singh from the Ambala (reserved) and the Bhiwani-Mahendragarh Lok Sabha seats, respectively.

Deepender Hooda, son of former chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, will enter the fray from Rohtak. He has represented the Rohtak parliamentary constituency three times in the past.

Jai Prakash has been fielded from Hisar, the Congress' Haryana youth wing president Divanshu Budhiraja from Karnal, Satpal Brahmachari from Sonipat and Mahendra Pratap from Faridabad.