Cong release second list of candidates for K'taka elections, suspense continues of three DK seats
Bengaluru: All India Congress Committee (AICC) on Thursday morning released the second list of candidates for the upcoming Karnataka Elections.
The party, however, has not announced its candidates from the three assembly constituencies of Dakshina Kannada district.
Kolar constituency which is being anticipated by former Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah as his second constituency was not also among the list of 42 constituencies where it announced candidates in the second list.
Former Karnataka Minister Vinay Kulkarni who was expected to contest against CM Basavaraj Bommai from Shiggaon has been fielded from the Dharwad constituency itself.
The Congress has marked the Melukote assembly constituency for Darshan Puttannaiah of the Sarvodaya Karnataka Party.
It has so far finalised 142 candidates for the polls. The first list of 100 candidates was released earlier.
The candidates were finalised at a meeting of the Central Election Committee headed by Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Wednesday.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and top party leaders from Karnataka, including former chief minister Siddaramaiah, state chief DK Shivakumar and All India Congress Committee in-charge for the state, Randeep Surjewala, were present at the meeting.
The Congress is seeking to wrest power from the BJP in Karnataka, the only southern state where the saffron party is in power.
The elections to the 224-member assembly will be held on May 10 and results will be declared on May 13.
The CEC of Congress has finalised the second list of candidates for the upcoming Karnataka assembly elections. pic.twitter.com/7gyaXucKzt
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Three of family drown in river in Kerala
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Kozhikode (PTI): Three members of a family, including a girl, drowned in a river at Nadapuram in this district on Saturday, police said.
The tragic incident occurred when the family had gone to Puliyavu river near Nadapuram, to wash their clothes.
The deceased were identified as Ansar (43), his wife Suhada (39), and Isa Mariyam (8), daughter of Ansar's brother--all residents of Puliyavu here.
According to preliminary information, the child accidentally slipped into deep waters and Ansar and his wife attempted to rescue her.
But all three were also pulled in by the current and drowned.
The couple's children alerted the locals, who initiated rescue efforts.
Though they were pulled out of the water, their lives could not be saved, police said.
The bodies were shifted to the nearby state-run hospital and further procedures are underway, they added.
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