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In the Vokkaliga heartland of Hassan in the Old Mysuru region of south Karnataka, a high-profile “battle of grandchildren” is brewing as sitting JD(S) MP Prajwal Revanna takes on the Congress’s Shreyas M Patel. While Prajwal is the grandson of former prime minister and JD((S) supremo H D Deve Gowda, Patel is likewise of Deve Gowda’s bete noire and former MP G Puttuswamy Gowda.
For the first time in 20 years, the JD(S) lost from its stronghold of Hassan with Prajwal Revanna, the sitting MP who is under arrest over cases of sexual assault, losing to Congress candidate Shreyas M Patil by 43,738 votes.
Located on the banks of the Tunga river, Shivamogga, popularly called the “gateway to the Western Ghats”, is the site of one of the high-voltage election contests, with the spark fuelled by the rebellion of longtime BJP leader and former Deputy Chief Minister K S Eshwarappa.
The Lingayat-dominated Dharwad Lok Sabha constituency is one of the BJP’s strongholds in north Karnataka, from where Union minister Pralhad Joshi, has been winning since 2004 for four consecutive terms.
With 14 of Karnataka’s 28 Lok Sabha constituencies having gone to polls on April 26, state BJP president B Y Vijayendra, 48, claims that the party is heading for a victory and that there would be “turmoil” in the ruling Congress in the state following the elections. In an interview with The India Express in the midst of his campaign, Vijayendra — state BJP stalwart B S Yediyurappa’s younger son and first-time MLA from Shikaripura – speaks on various issues including the alleged sex abuse case involving JD(S) MP and ex-Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda’s grandson Prajwal Revanna as well as the BJP-JD(S) alliance. Excerpts:
The man at the centre of one of the biggest political scandals of Karnataka politics has never been known to mind his words — or his party JD(S).
Karnataka’s Shivamogga is normally considered a safe seat for the BJP, as it is the home turf of senior leader B S Yediyurappa. But this poll season, it is facing a ferocious turf war. K S Eshwarappa, a former colleague of the Chief Minister, and ex-Cabinet colleague — their association goes back four decades — has rebelled. He is contesting as an Independent after his son was denied a ticket, which went to Yediyurappa’s son and sitting BJP MP B Y Raghavendra.
The Mysore Lok Sabha seat in the Vokkaliga-dominated South Karnataka is heading for a fierce contest as the BJP has fielded the scion of the erstwhile Mysore royal family, Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wadiyar, 32, from the constituency, which is part of Chief Minister Siddaramaiah’s home turf. The BJP dropped its sitting MP Pratap Simha to bring in Yaduveer Wadiyar. Simha had won the seat in the 2014 and 2019 polls by defeating the Congress candidates by over 31,000 votes and about 1.38 lakh votes respectively.