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Among the names that featured in the Congress’s first list of 39 candidates for the Lok Sabha polls, released by the All India Congress Committee (AICC) last Friday, were seven nominees from Karnataka, the home state of AICC president Mallikarjun Kharge.
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.
Aiming to make the most of their alliance in Karnataka and win a maximum number of seats in the state in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, the BJP and the JD(S) are mulling an “exchange formula” whereby their candidates may contest on each other’s symbols.
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.
As the BJP and Janata Dal (Secular) enter the final stages of seat-sharing talks for the Lok Sabha elections, the speculation in the JD(S) is that party leader and former Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy will be asked to contest from Chikkaballapur, a seat currently held by the BJP. However, there is no unanimity on the candidature of two other members of the JD(S) first family.
Despite promising in its manifesto that it would implement the Justice A J Sadashiva Commission report to provide for internal reservations for the Scheduled Castes (SCs) in Karnataka, the Congress dispensation in the state has now put the ball over the issue in the court of the BJP-ruled Centre.