BJP names 72 candidates, Yeddyurappa to contest from Shikaripura
Bengaluru: The BJP's Central Election Committee on Sunday announced its first list of 72 candidates for the May 12 Assembly elections in Karnataka, where the saffron party hopes to return to power.
MP and state BJP chief B S Yeddyurappa will contest from the Shikaripura Assembly constituency, while B Sriramulu, party MP from Ballari district, will be the candidate from Molakalmuru in Chitradurga district. The meeting, chaired by BJP president Amit Shah, was attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and other BJP leaders.
Shashikala Jolle (Nippani); Laxman Savadi (Athani); Bharamagouda H Kage (Kagwad); P Rajeev (Kudachi-SC); Duryodhana Aihole (Raibagh); Umesh Katti (Hukkeri); Balachandra Jarakiholi (Arabhavi); Sanjay Patil (Belgaum Rural); Vishwanath Patil (Bailhongal); Anand Vishwanath Mamani (Saudatti Yellamma); Govind Karjol (Mudhol-SC); A S Patil Nadahalli (Muddebihal); Vijugouda Patil (Babaleshwar); Basavanagouda Patil Yetnal (Bijapur City); Ramesh Bhusanur (Sindgi); Malikayya Guttedar (Afzalpur); Narasimha Naik (Shorapur-ST); Guru Patil Shiraval (Shahapur); Dattatreya Patil Revur (Gulbarga Dakshin); Subhash Guttedar (Aland); Mallikarjun Khuba (Basavakalyan); Prabhu Chouhan (Aurad-SC); Thipparaju Havaldar (Raichur Rural-ST); Shivaraj Patil (Raichur); Shivanagouda Naik (Devadurga-ST); Manappa Vajjal (Lingsugur-SC); Doddanagouda Patil (Kushtagi); Amruth Desai (Dharwad); Jagadish Shettar (Hubli-Dharwad Central); Aravind Bellad (Hubli-Dharwad West); Roopali Naik (Karwar); Kageri Vishweswara Hegde (Sirsi); C M Udasi (Hangal); Basavaraj Bommai (Shiggaon); U B Banakar (Hirekerur); Gaviyappa (Vijayanagara); T H Suresh Babu (Kampli-ST);
B Raghavendra (Sandur-ST); B Sriramulu (Molakalmuru-ST); G H Thippareddy (Chitradurga); Poornima Srinivas (Hiriyur); Gulihatti D Shekhar (Hosadurga); S A Ravindranath (Davangere North); K S Eshwarappa (Shimogga); B S Yeddyurappa (Shikaripura); Haladi Srinivasa Shetty (Kundapura); V Sunil Kumar (Karkala); D N Jeevaraj (Sringeri); C T Ravi (Chikkamagaluru); B Suresh Gowda (Tumkur Rural); Y Sampangi (Kolar Gold Fields-SC); S R Vishwanath (Yelahanka); P M Muniraju Gowda (Rajarajeshwari Nagar); S Muniraju (Dasarahalli); C N Ashwathanarayan (Malleswaram); Y A Narayanaswamy (Hebbal); S Raghu (C V Raman Nagar - SC); S Suresh Kumar (Rajajinagar); V Somanna (Govindaraj Nagar); Uday Garudachar (Chickpet); Ravi Subramanya (Basavanagudi); R Ashoka (Padmanabhanagar); B N Vijayakumar (Jayanagar); Aravind Limbavali (Mahadevapura - SC);
Satish Reddy (Bommanahalli); M Krishnappa (Bangalore South); A Narayanaswamy (Anekal - SC); Sharath Bachchegowda (Hosakote); C P Yogeeshwara (Channapatna); Nanjundegowda (Srirangapatna); S Angara (Sullia - SC) and Appachu Ranjan (Madikeri).
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7 held for running fake call centre in South Kolkata
Kolkata (PTI): Seven people were arrested from the Parnashree area in the southern part of the city for allegedly running a fake call centre, a police officer said on Saturday.
Acting on a tip-off, police raided a house on Netaji Subhas Road on Friday night and found the fake call centre operating from the ground floor, he said.
Preliminary investigation revealed that the accused had set up a bogus company using forged documents and posed as employees of an antivirus firm to call citizens in the US, the officer said.
"The callers would gain the trust of victims and then use remote access to take control of their phones or other digital devices. The accused allegedly siphoned off large sums of money, running into millions of dollars, from victims' accounts," he said.
Five laptops, two WiFi routers, six mobile phones and four headsets were seized from the accused, he said, adding that the seven are being questioned to ascertain the full extent of the racket and to identify others involved.
