Bengaluru, October 15: Former prime minister H.D. Deve Gowda said that both the Congress and JDS would campaign jointly for the Lok Sabha and Assembly by-poll.

Speaking to reporters at his residence at Padmanabhanagar here on Monday, Gowda said that the Congress-JDS have come together to form the government in the state and now, both the parties would face the by-election together. The Congress has allowed the JDS to field its candidates in Ramanagar Assembly segment, and Mandya and Shivamogga LS seats and Congress would field its candidates in Ballary and Jamkhandi, he said.

By tomorrow, all candidates would file their nomination papers. Later, campaigning would start in each constituency. He would also participate in the by-poll campaigning. Former Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, Minister D.K Shivakumar and Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy would jointly campaign for the by-election, he said.

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New Delhi (PTI): The National Investigation Agency on Thursday conducted searches at 22 locations in six states to probe a human trafficking syndicate luring youth to work in call centres engaged in cyber frauds, officials said.

They said the searches were being conducted in Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, and Delhi among other places.

The case, which was registered by police in Gopalganj in Bihar, relates to an organised syndicate luring and trafficking Indian youth to foreign countries on the pretext of jobs and forcing them to work in fake call centres engaged in cyber fraud.