Bengaluru: Karnataka Congress on Saturday schooled BJP over the party’s move to nominate BY Vijayendra for MLC ticket and asked the saffron party if this was not “Dynasty politics”.

“Let BJP answer nominating BJP Vice President BY Vijayendra as MLC candidate. Is this not dynasty politics? Isn’t Vijayendra getting the ticket only because he is the son of BS Yediyurappa?

The Karnataka BJP core committee, which met on Saturday, is said to have recommended the candidature of party vice president B Y Vijayendra, former chief minister B S Yediyurappa’s son, for the upcoming Legislative Council elections.

Vijayendra’s name is among over a dozen other names that the core committee has discussed for seven Legislative Council seats for which elections will be held on June 3. Elections are necessary as seven MLCs are retiring on June 14.

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Malda (PTI): In less than a fortnight after a senior Trinamool Congress councillor was murdered in West Bengal's Malda district, a TMC worker was killed and two other party members were injured in a shootout incident in broad daylight in the same region on Tuesday, police said.

Like in the previous incident, police suspected that Tuesday's shootout was also a fallout of the party's infighting.

The deceased was identified as Ataul Haque alias Hasu Sheikh and the two injured are Bakul Sheikh, a TMC local committee president, and Esaruddin Sheikh, a senior officer said.

The incident took place in Kaliaganj area in the morning when the TMC local committee president along with party workers went to a function to inaugurate a road, an officer said.

"One of the party workers who were shot at was declared dead by doctors at the Malda Medical College and Hospital. Two others are undergoing treatment there, and their condition was stated to be critical," he said.

"We are questioning people and witnesses. So far, we have not arrested anyone in this matter," the police officer told PTI.

TMC councillor in Malda Dulal Sarkar was killed on January 2, and seven people have been arrested in this connection.