BJP announces candidates for Sandur, Shiggaon; Channapatna undecided
Bharat Bommai, son of former CM, is BJP candidate for Shiggaon
Bengaluru: Out of the three Vidhan Sabha constituencies bound for by-elections, BJP had announced the names of candidates for Shiggaon and Sandur on Saturday. However, the candidate for Channapatna is yet to be decided.
Bharat Basavaraj Bommai, son of the former CM Bommai, is the candidate for Shiggaon constituency. As Basavaraj Bommai, the previous legislator from the constituency, was elected an MP, the seat had become vacant.
From Sandur, BJP has named Bangaru Hanumanthu as its candidate. Previous Congress MLA E Tukaram had been elected an MP from Ballari Lok Sabha constituency.
Reports state that BJP high command has decided to handover Channapatna constituency to JDS, as it has already claimed the other two constituencies for itself. Earlier, H D Kumaraswamy was an MLA from Channapatna. As he had won the Lok Sabha elections from Mandya, the constituency is going for vote again.
However, BJP MLC C P Yogeshwar has posed a threat to Kumaraswamy's ambition to field a candidate from his party in the constituency. Yogeshwar is bent upon getting a ticket from Channapatna. He has already conducted a series of meetings with party workers and leaders regarding this.
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Pakistan reports two more polio cases; Total tally now 52
ISLAMABAD: At least two more cases of poliovirus were reported in Pakistan, taking the number of infections to 52 so far this year, a report said on Friday.
“The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health has confirmed the detection of two more wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) cases in Pakistan," an official statement said.
The fresh infections — a boy and a girl — were reported from the Dera Ismail Khan district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.
“Genetic sequencing of the samples collected from the children is underway," the statement read. Dera Ismail Khan, one of the seven polio-endemic districts of southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, has reported five polio cases so far this year.
Of the 52 cases in the country this year, 24 are from Balochistan, 13 from Sindh, 13 from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and one each from Punjab and Islamabad.
There is no cure for polio. Only multiple doses of the oral polio vaccine and completion of the routine vaccination schedule for all children under the age of five can keep them protected.
