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