Will get a clear picture on BJP candidates from K'taka on Sunday evening, says ex-CM Yediyurappa
Bengaluru, Mar 9: Former Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa on Saturday said a clear picture would emerge on Sunday after the BJP election committee meeting on party's candidates in Karnataka.
The BJP has not yet announced any of its candidates in the state whereas the Congress on Friday came out with seven names.
"Tomorrow I am going to Delhi. Tomorrow evening there is an election committee meeting. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will also take part in it. Already one round of talks has taken place with Union Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP president J P Nadda. Tomorrow we can get a clear picture," Yediyurappa told reporters.
On seat-sharing arrangements with the JD(S), which joined the BJP led NDA in September, 2023, the BJP stalwart said there is no clarity on which seats will be given to the JD(S).
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"We will get to know which one will be given to them and which one not only after going there (Delhi)," he explained.
Yediyurappa said the atmosphere is favourable for the BJP.
"We are confident of winning 24 to 25 seats under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. In that direction we are making efforts," he said.
Union Minister of Coal and Mines Pralhad Joshi told reporters in Shivamogga that winnability and loyalty to the party are the only criteria to get a ticket.
When asked about the buzz that 50 per cent of the sitting MPs will be denied ticket, Joshi said that is speculation.
"Denying tickets to 50 or 60 per cent sitting members is not a criterion. Only winnability and loyalty to the party are the parameters," he added.
Meanwhile, former chief minister and former union minister D V Sadananda Gowda on Saturday asserted that he too is aspiring for a ticket from Bengaluru North.
Gowda, who had announced that he would not contest the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, suddenly changed his mind and said he wanted to fight the polls to fulfill the wishes of the party leaders and workers in Bengaluru North constituency.
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Pakistan reports two more polio cases; Total tally now 52
ISLAMABAD: At least two more cases of poliovirus were reported in Pakistan, taking the number of infections to 52 so far this year, a report said on Friday.
“The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health has confirmed the detection of two more wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) cases in Pakistan," an official statement said.
The fresh infections — a boy and a girl — were reported from the Dera Ismail Khan district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.
“Genetic sequencing of the samples collected from the children is underway," the statement read. Dera Ismail Khan, one of the seven polio-endemic districts of southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, has reported five polio cases so far this year.
Of the 52 cases in the country this year, 24 are from Balochistan, 13 from Sindh, 13 from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and one each from Punjab and Islamabad.
There is no cure for polio. Only multiple doses of the oral polio vaccine and completion of the routine vaccination schedule for all children under the age of five can keep them protected.
