Lok Sabha Elections 2024 : Resentment in Karnataka BJP over first list of Lok Sabha candidates

The first list of candidates for Lok Sabha elections has led to resentment among the leaders of (BJP) in Karnataka, according to a report by a news agency.

Some leaders have even hinted that they would switch over to Congress party since they are unhappy with the choice of candidates on some seats, the report said. 

The party has so far released names of candidates for 20 of the 28 parliamentary seats that the state has. The names were released in the

Former Deputy Chief Minister has revolted against the party, a news report by news agency PTI said. Eshwarappa is unhappy with former chief minister BS Yediyurappa after his son KE Kantesh did not feature in the March 13 list. Yediyurappa is also party's parliamentary board member.

Eshwarappa wanted the BJP to field his son Kantesh from the Haveri Lok Sabha seat. But the party fielded former Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai from there. An upset, Eshwarappa has now announced that he would contest the elections from Shivamogga against Yediyurappa's elder son B Y Vijayendra to protest the 'dynastic politics' in Karnataka.

"People and the workers are in favour of the BJP but the system here is bad. What is our ji saying? The Congress party is in the hands of one family. Rahul Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi... the central Congress is being controlled by one family. Same situation in Karnataka. Karnataka's BJP is in control of one family. We have to protest this," Eshwarappa, 75, told PTI in an interview.

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Eshwarappa alleged that even those standing in favour of Hindutva are being sidelined, be it C T Ravi, Pratap Simha, Basanagouda Patil Yatnal or Sadananda Gowda. "Under any circumstances, I will have to fight the election, which I will do," he said .

Another senior BJP leader