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There was disappointment in store for former Union minister Veerappa Moily when the Congress announced three Lok Sabha poll candidates from Karnataka on Friday, with a fourth added on Saturday morning that completed the party’s list for all 28 Lok Sabha seats in the state. While the veteran leader, also a former Chief Minister, lost out, the sons of two other senior leaders got the nod.
The BJP has dropped a poster boy of Hindutva in Karnataka, Anantkumar Hegde, and has given a fresh lease of life to two losing candidates from the Karnataka Assembly polls of 2023, including former CM Jagadish Shettar who left the party in 2023, in its list of four candidates from the state announced on Sunday night.
When the S M Krishna-led Congress government was in power in Karnataka between 1999 and 2004, among the names that did the rounds of the power corridors were those of two sons-in-law. One was Krishna’s son-in-law V G Siddhartha, who passed away in 2019, and the other was Mallikarjun Kharge’s son-in-law Radhakrishna Doddamani.
Ahead of the announcement of the BJP’s second list of candidates, and amid buzz about several sitting MPs being dropped, the Karnataka ranks are waiting in anticipation.
Congress Karnataka leader Syed Naseer Hussain who finds himself fighting off BJP allegations of being “anti-national”, is a student leader from Jawaharlal Nehru University, former political science teacher, and now a two-time Rajya Sabha MP, who once asked the BJP government in Parliament whether it would investigate the role of a tech app in spreading misinformation during the anti-Citizenship (Amendment) Act protests.
Even as the Congress legislators huddled in the run-up to the Rajya Sabha elections, the BJP was left embarrassed after its MLA from Yeshwantpur, S T Somashekar, cross-voted while Yellapur MLA Shivram Hebbar abstained from voting.
The BJP and the Janata Dal (Secular) coalition in Karnataka suffered yet another jolt in the Rajya Sabha election as saffron party MLA and former minister S T Somashekar voted in favour of the Congress candidates on Tuesday.
The BJP and the Janata Dal (Secular) coalition on Tuesday suffered a jolt in the Rajya Sabha elections as some from within its ranks voted for the Congress candidates. Amid cross-voting, JD(S) candidate and real estate businessman D Kupendra Reddy stands to lose out on an Upper House berth.