BJP announces candidates for 21 constituencies in Karnataka
Bengaluru: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday released a list of 21 candidates who will contest from Karnataka against the Congress-JD(S) coalition in the state for the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections.
Former Minister A Manju, who left Congress and joined BJP will contest from Hassan constituency from the party ticket, Dr. Umesh Jadhav from Kalburgi, Devendrappa has secured ticket from Bellari while A. Narayanswami will contest the polls from Chitradurga constituency.
Udupi-Chikmagalur-Shobha Karandlaje, Mysore-Kodagu-Pratap Simha, Vijayapura-Ramesh Jigajinagi, Uttara Kannada-Ananthkumar Hegde, Bengaluru North-DV Sadananda Gowda, Chikkaballapur-BN Bache Gowda, Bangalore Central-PC. Mohan, Chamarajanagar-V. Srinivas Prasad, Tumkur-GS Basavaraju, Dakshina Kannada-Nalin Kumar Kateel, Shimoga-BY Raghavendra are among others who will contest the election on BJP ticket.
Davangere-GM Siddheshwar, Dharwad-Prahlad Joshi, Haveri-Shivakumar Udasi, Bidar-Bhagwant Khuba, Bagalkot-PC. Gaddigowder, Belgaum-Suresh Angadi have also secured tickets for the upcoming election.
Of the 28 constituencies in the state the party has announced candidates for 21 seats while candidates for 7 other constituencies are yet to be announced.
Seven constituencies where the party has not yet named its candidates include Mandya, Kolar, Bangalore Rural, Bangalore South, Koppal, Raichur and Chikkodi.
In constituencies like Udupi-Chikmagalur, Mysore-Kodagu, Uttara Kannada, Vijayapur and Bengaluru North rumors were rife that the party will not give tickets to sitting MPs and would change the candidates, but the high-command has persisted with the sitting MPs and have announced tickets to them.
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Cong performed better in Kerala, anti-incumbency trends influenced WB, TN: CM Siddaramaiah
Bengaluru (PTI): Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Monday said the Congress had largely met or exceeded expectations in several States, even as results in some regions reflected shifting voter sentiments.
Speaking to reporters in Bengaluru, he said the party accepted the mandate in Assam while performing better than anticipated in Kerala.
He also pointed to possible anti-incumbency trends influencing outcomes in West Bengal and Tamil Nadu.
“In Assam, we got the expected result, and we accept the people’s mandate. In Kerala, we have won more seats than expected. We anticipated around 76 to 80, but we have gone up to around 95,” Siddaramaiah said.
In West Bengal and Tamil Nadu, there may have been an anti-incumbency trend, and that could have influenced the results, he added.
Siddaramaiah also extended his congratulations to a new political entrant in Tamil Nadu, noting the emergence of a different electoral dynamic in the State.
“I congratulate the new entrant who has achieved success there,” he added.
Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar said electoral outcomes in some States had diverged from the party’s internal assessments, reflecting evolving voter expectations.
“We expected a certain trend, but the results have been different. Political reading was wrong in some places,” he said.
“People were looking for change in some States, and that has been reflected in the results,” Shivakumar, who is also the Congress Karnataka unit president, said.
Referring to Kerala, he said the Congress-led alliance had benefited from public sentiment.
“There was already an expectation based on local body elections, and people had shown confidence in us. That has translated into a strong result,” the Deputy Chief Minister said.
On Tamil Nadu, he acknowledged that the scale of political shift had come as a surprise.
“We expected to secure around 30 to 40 per cent of the vote share, but such a major shift was not anticipated. It shows that voter expectations were different,” he said.
Shivakumar added that electoral outcomes underscored the need for better political assessment in future.
“We have to understand these changes carefully. Political reading cannot go wrong like this,” he said.
