Karnataka Assembly bypolls: Congress announces BJP turncoat C P Yogeshwar as candidate from Channapatna

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Former Karnataka curate and BJP MLC C P Yogeshwar joined the Congress. (@ani_digital/X)

Hours aft erstwhile Karnataka curate and BJP MLC C P Yogeshwar joined the Congress, the ruling enactment connected Wednesday announced him arsenic the campaigner for the Channapatna Assembly constituency bypoll, scheduled for November 13. The Congress besides announced Lok Sabha MP E Tukaram’s woman Annapurna arsenic the campaigner from the Sandur constituency.

Bypolls are scheduled to beryllium held successful 3 constituencies, with Shiggaon being the third. These elections person been necessitated owed to the resignations of sitting MLAs from the respective segments: Union Minister for Heavy Industries and Steel H D Kumaraswamy from Channapatna, Lok Sabha MP and erstwhile main curate Basavaraj Bommai from Shiggaon, and MLA Tukaram from Sandur. They resigned to contention successful the 2024 Lok Sabha elections and each 3 of them won.

The BJP has already announced its candidates from Shiggaon and Sandur. In Shiggaon, Basavaraj Bommai’s lad Bharath Bommai volition trial the governmental waters, portion Bangaru Hanumanthu is the campaigner from Sandur, a Scheduled Tribes-reserved constituency.

The Congress is yet to denote its campaigner from Shiggaon. The BJP had ceded the Channapatna spot to its confederation spouse Janata Dal (S), prompting Yogeshwar’s rebellion. (https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/bangalore/bjp-jds-ex-minister-yogeshwar-join-congress-channapatna-bypoll-ticket-9634340/) Yogeshwar is simply a five-time MLA from Channapatna but had mislaid the past 2 elections connected a BJP summons against Kumaraswamy of the JD(S). Speculations are inactive rife that Kumaraswamy’s lad Nikhil Kumaraswamy could beryllium the JD(S) campaigner from Channapatna.

At Shiggaon, Vaishali Kulkarni, girl of Congress MLA and erstwhile curate Vinay Kulkarni, has emerged arsenic a acheronian horse.

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