Hours after former Karnataka minister and BJP MLC C P Yogeshwar joined the Congress, the ruling get together on Wednesday introduced him because the candidate for the Channapatna Meeting constituency bypoll, scheduled for November 13. The Congress additionally introduced Lok Sabha MP E Tukaram’s spouse Annapurna because the candidate from the Sandur constituency.
Bypolls are scheduled to be held in three constituencies, with Shiggaon being the third. These elections have been necessitated because of the resignations of sitting MLAs from the respective segments: Union Minister for Heavy Industries and Metal H D Kumaraswamy from Channapatna, Lok Sabha MP and former chief minister Basavaraj Bommai from Shiggaon, and MLA Tukaram from Sandur. They resigned to contest within the 2024 Lok Sabha elections and all three of them gained.
The BJP has already introduced its candidates from Shiggaon and Sandur. In Shiggaon, Basavaraj Bommai’s son Bharath Bommai will check the political waters, whereas Bangaru Hanumanthu is the candidate from Sandur, a Scheduled Tribes-reserved constituency.
The Congress is but to announce its candidate from Shiggaon. The BJP had ceded the Channapatna seat to its alliance companion Janata Dal (S), prompting Yogeshwar’s insurrection. (https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/bangalore/bjp-jds-ex-minister-yogeshwar-join-congress-channapatna-bypoll-ticket-9634340/) Yogeshwar is a five-time MLA from Channapatna however had misplaced the final two elections on a BJP ticket in opposition to Kumaraswamy of the JD(S). Speculations are nonetheless rife that Kumaraswamy’s son Nikhil Kumaraswamy might be the JD(S) candidate from Channapatna.
At Shiggaon, Vaishali Kulkarni, daughter of Congress MLA and former minister Vinay Kulkarni, has emerged as a darkish horse.
