Congress leader DK Suresh says he is under pressure to contest from Channapatna assembly seat

Vartha Bharati | 20-10-2024 | 17:16:00 IST

Former Congress MP D K Suresh | PC: ANI

Bengaluru, Oct 20: Former Congress MP DK Suresh on Sunday said he is under pressure from party workers and leaders to contest in the November 13 by-poll from Channapatna seat.

Suresh, brother of Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar, said he along with all Congress workers and leaders from the segment will abide by the party's decision.

"We have held discussions with leaders and workers from Channapatna taluk under the leadership of state President D K Shivakumar and we have gathered their opinion. They have all said that they will abide by the party's decision. There is also pressure on me to contest," he said.

Addressing reporters here, he said he will abide by the decision of the party high command and AICC President Mallikarjun Kharge.

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"More than a candidate, I'm happy to work as a worker along with other party workers, I have asked party leaders to give me an opportunity. Whatever the party decides in two to three days, all the leaders and workers will abide by it," he added.

Channapatna will go for by-polls along with Sandur and Shiggaon Assembly segments on November 13.

Channapatna bypoll is necessitated after the seat fell vacant following the election of its representative -- JD(S) state President and now Union Minister H D Kumaraswamy -- to Lok Sabha from Mandya parliamentary segment.

BJP-JD(S) alliance is also yet to finalise their candidate for the Channapatna seat.

According to leaders from the alliance parties, BJP has ceded the seat to JD(S) and the regional party under Kumaraswamy will announce the candidate soon.

However, BJP MLC C P Yogeeshwara has been repeatedly claiming that he will be the alliance candidate. This even as Kumaraswamy stating recently that there is pressure on him from within his party, to field a JD(S) candidate, especially its youth wing president and his son, Nikhil Kumaraswamy from Channapatna.

There are also reports that Yogeeshwara may contest on the JD(S) ticket, as per arrangement between both sides.

Kumaraswamy had won the Channapatna seat in 2018 and 2023. Before that Yogeeshwara had represented the seat from BJP and Samajwadi Party. He had earlier also represented the seat both as an independent and from the Congress.

"D K Brothers" --Shivakumar and Suresh -- are hoping to regain lost grounds in the region, after the Lok Sabha poll debacle from there. Suresh had lost May Lok Sabha polls to BJP-JD(S) joint candidate Dr C N Manjunath in Bangalore Rural Lok Sabha segment, under which the Channapatna Assembly segment comes.

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Four booked for tying 18-year-old to tree, beating him up in UP's Pratapgarh

07-05-2026 ¦ 07-05-2026 IST

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Pratapgarh (UP) (PTI): Four people were booked here for the abduction and assault of a man who they allegedly tied to a tree and beat up, police said on Wednesday.

The incident, a video of which has gone viral, took place on Tuesday afternoon under the Kunda police station limits.

The FIR was registered on Wednesday evening based on a complaint from the victim's father.

According to Keshav Prasad Yadav, a resident of Mauli village, some people called his 18-year-old son Nikhil Yadav on the phone and asked him to come out of his house around 2.30 pm on Tuesday.

As he reached outside the village as instructed, the accused allegedly forced him into a car and took him towards the Tinpedwa forest area, where they tied him to a tree and assaulted, the complainant said.

The attackers also recorded a video of the incident and circulated it on social media. The purported video shows the men thrashing Nikhil one after another, while one of them is assumed to have recorded the act.

Kunda Station House Officer Manoj Pandey confirmed the incident and said efforts are underway to identify and arrest all the accused.

Meanwhile, Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav has shared the video on social media, describing the incident as reflective of a "dominant mindset" against the PDA (Pichda or Backward, Dalit, and Alpasankhyak or Minority), and demanded strict action against the accused.