The Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday released its second list of 23 candidates for the upcoming Karnataka Assembly election. The saffron party has so far announced candidates on 212 out of the 224 seats. This comes a day after it had announced 189 candidates in its first list as Karnataka goes to polls in a single phase voting on May 10 and counting of votes will take place on May 13. Karnataka Election 2023: Big twist in BJP second list.
The latest list does not include Hubli-Dharwad Central segment, from where former Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar wants to contest. It also does not include candidate for the Shivamogga city segment, where sitting MLA and former minister K S Eshwarappa has announced his retirement from electoral politics. Shettar has been asked by the party’s top brass to make way for youngsters, but he has asserted that he wants to contest one last time.
The list includes four Scheduled Caste, one Scheduled Tribe and two women candidates. Channagiri MLA Virupakshappa, who was recently arrested by Lokayukta police on corruption charges, was among the incumbent MLAs who were not included in the list. Shiv Kumar has been fielded from the Channagiri seat. In Haveri, sitting MLA Nehru Olekar was replaced by Gavisiddappa Dyamannavar, while in Byndoor, sitting MLA B Sukumar Shetty made way for Gururaj Gantihole.
Mudigere sitting MLA M P Kumaraswamy was dropped and Deepak Doddaiah was named in his place. Kalghatgi MLA C M Nimbannavar (76) has been replaced by Nagaraj Chabbi who quit Congress and joined the party recently, and in Mayakonda, Basavaraja Naik has been given the ticket instead of sitting MLA N Linganna. Davangere North MLA S A Ravindranath (76) was denied renomination. Instead, Lokikere Nagraj got the ticket.
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Here is the second list rolled out by BJP for Karnataka assembly election 2023:
Devar Hippargi – Somanagouda Patil (Sasanur)
Basavana Bagevadi – SK Bellubbi
Indi – Kasagouda Biradar
Gurmitkal- Lalitha Anapur
Bidar- Eshwar Singh Thakur
Bhalki- Prakash Khandre
Gangawati- Paranna Munavalli
Kalghatgi- Nagaraj Chabbi
Hangal- Shivaraj Sajjanar
Haveri (SC)- Gavisiddappa Dyamannavar
Harapanahalli- Karunakara Reddy
Davanagere North- Lokikere Nagaraj
Davanagere South- Ajay Kumar
Mayakonda (SC)- Basavaraja Naik
Channagiri- Shiv Kumar
Byndoor- Gururaj Gantihole
Mudigere (SC)- Deepak Doddajah
Gubbi- Dileep Kumar
Sidlaghatta- Ramachandra Gowda
Kolar Gold Field (SC)- Ashwini Sampangi
Shravanabelagola- Chidananda
Arsikere- GV Basavaraju
Heggadadevankote (ST)- Krishna Naik.
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