Children of two ex-CMs to lock horns in Shimoga LS constituency
Bengaluru (PTI): Children of two former chief ministers will be in the contest for the Shimoga Lok Sabha seat, with BJP on Wednesday fielding its sitting MP and veteran BJP leader B S Yediyurappa's son B Y Raghavendra.
The Congress has named former Chief Minister late S Bangarappa's daughter Geetha Shivarajkumar, who is the wife of Karnataka film star Shivarajkumar and daughter-in-law of Kannada thespian late Rajkumar.
Raghavendra has been elected to Parliament from Shimoga three times. In the 2019 Lok Sabha polls and in the 2018 by-election, he defeated Geetha's brother Madhu Bangarappa, who is now the minister in the Siddaramaiah-led Congress government. Madhu was then with JD(S).
Raghavendra, in his first Lok Sabha election in 2009, had defeated S Bangarappa.
Geetha had earlier contested from the seat on the JD(S) ticket in 2014 and lost against Yediyurappa by a huge margin. She had come third in that election behind Congress candidate Manjunath Bhandary.
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Parliament monsoon session | Police block opposition MPs’ march to Election Commission headquarters
New Delhi: Delhi Police on Monday stopped opposition Members of Parliament, including Lok Sabha Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi, from marching to the Election Commission of India’s headquarters.
The protest march was organised to condemn alleged voter fraud and the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls in Bihar. Opposition MPs began their march from Parliament’s Makar Gate towards the Election Commission office but were met with police barricades.
Some MPs reportedly climbed over the barricades in an attempt to move forward before being stopped by the police.
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