BJP shortlists candidates for all 28 Lok Sabha seats in Karnataka: Arvind Limbavali
Bengaluru, Mar 17: The BJP's Karnataka unit said Sunday that it has shortlisted candidates for all the 28 Lok Sabha constituencies and the party's central election committee would soon take a call on it.
"We have shortlisted the names of all the candidates (in Karnataka). The central election committee will take a decision on it and release the list," BJP state general secretary Arvind Limbavali told reporters.
He was speaking after the party's state core meeting here, chaired by BJP state president B S Yeddyurappa.
BJP general secretary and state unit in-charge P Muralidhar Rao, BJP organising secretary (in-charge south India) B L Santosh, former chief ministers D V Sadananda Gowda and Jagadish Shettar were among those who attended the meeting.
Limbavali said the state election committee would table the list before the central election committee, headed by its national president, but refused to divulge the names, saying the CEC would announce it later.
On the Mandya Lok Sabha seat, where Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy's son Nikhil Kumaraswamy is pitted against multi-lingual actress Sumalatha Ambareesh, wife of late actor-turned-politician Ambareesh, he said the core committee discussed fielding a candidate.
However, the party kept its options open and would take a final call based on Sumalatha's decision, he said.
Mandya has gone to the JD(S) as per the seat-sharing agreement between the coalition partners Congress and the JD(S).
The party has planned to field Nikhil Gowda, grandson of former prime minister H D Deve Gowda and son of Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy.
However, Sumalatha's decision has disturbed the political equations.
Ambareesh had represented Mandya thrice in the Lok Sabha, the first time on a JD(S) ticket and twice on Congress ticket.
He was minister of state for information and broadcasting during the UPA-1 regime.
Limbavali said senior Congress leader from Hassan, A Manju would soon join the BJP after his meeting with Yeddyurappa.
Manju had been a vocal critic of Gowda and often expressed his displeasure in respecting the Congress-JD(S) coalition.
Shortlisted Candidates:
Kolar- DS Veeraiah, Chikkaballapur-BN Bache Gowda, Bengaluru(South)-Tejaswini Ananth Kumar, Bengaluru(Center)- PC Mohan, Bengaluru(North)- Sadananda Gowda/HM Chandrashekar, Bengaluru(Rural)- CP Yogeshwar/Rudresh.
Chamarajanagar- V Srinivas Prasad, Mysore- Pratap Simha,Tumkur- GS Basavaraju, Chitradurga- A Narayanaswamy/Manappa Vajjal, Dakshina Kannada- Nalin Kumar Kateel, Hasan- A Manju, Udupi-Chikmagalur- Shobha Karandlaje, Shimoga- BY Raghavendra.
Davanagere- GM Siddeshwar, North Kannada- Anath Kumar Hegde, Darawad- Prahlad Joshi, Haveri- Shivakumar Udasi, Ballari- Devendrappa/Venkatesh Prasad, Koppala- Sanganna Karadi, Bidar- Bhagavat Khuba, Raichur- Thipparaju Havaldar/ Amareh Nayak/ Fakeerappa, Kalburgi- Dr. Umesh Jadhav.
Vijayapura- Ramesh Jigajinagi, Bagalkot- PC Gaddigoudar, Belgaum- Suresh Angadi, Chikkodi-Prabhakar Khore/Ramesh Katti names were included in the list.
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Pawan Khera denied anticipatory bail in passport case: Cong stands up for senior member
New Delhi: The Congress party has stood by Pawan Khera, the Chairman of the party’s Media and Publicity Department, expressing confidence that regardless of hurdles like politics of threat and intimidation, justice would emerge victorious.
Khera was denied anticipatory bail by the Gauhati High Court on Friday in the case filed against him by Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma's wife Riniki Bhuyan Sarma for alleging that she possessed not only multiple passports but also undisclosed properties abroad.
Senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh has said in a post in Hindi on his ‘X’ account, “The entire Indian National Congress stands in solidarity with Pawan Khera, the Chairman of its Media and Publicity Department. The process to challenge the Gauhati High Court’s decision in the Supreme Court is underway.” In the post, which he put up on Friday, Ramesh has added, “We are confident that justice will prevail over the politics of threats, intimidation, and harassment.”
Bhuyan Sarma has lodged also an FIR seeking legal action against Pawan Khera for his allegations that she possesses passports of three countries and owns a company in the US, which had invested Rs. 50,000 crores. She has filed criminal cases against the Congress leader at the Guwahati Crime Branch Police Station under various sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).
