Shivajinagar assembly constituency is in Bengaluru Urban district of Karnataka state. JDS Candidate of Shivaji Nagar Assembly Constituency Abdul Zafar Ali’s nomination paper has been rejected. Zafar Ali who had been abroad for many years, his name was not in the voter’s list, so the nomination paper was rejected. Karnataka Assembly Election 2023: Bad news for JDS; Candidate nomination rejected.
Shivajinagar RO Basavaraj Somannavar confirmed that the nomination was rejected. JDS candidate for Shivajinagar Constituency Zafar Ali lived abroad for many years. In this background, his name was not in the voter list. However, Zafar Ali, who had recently returned to India, had submitted his nomination paper after obtaining B-form from JDS with the intention of joining politics.
In Shivajinagar, minority votes are high and JD(S) also fielded a candidate from the same community. Due to this, there was a fear that the Muslim votes would go to Congress candidate Rizwan Arshad. Since Congress and JDS candidates belong to the Muslim community, the minority votes will be divided and the BJP was confident that it will be a plus for them.
Now, since the JDS candidate’s nomination paper has been rejected, the Congress candidate seems to have got relief. It seems that BJP is a bit disappointed. Shivajinagar constituency has a total of 191528 voters, of which 94085 are women and 97441 are men.
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In the 2018 election, Congress candidate Roshan Baig won by securing 59742 votes, while BJP’s stalwart Subrahmanya Naidu settled for the second position by securing 44702 votes. Later, by-elections were held for Shivajinagar constituency in 2019 as Roshan Baig resigned. Congress party candidate Rizwan Arshad won here. Bharatiya Janata Party’s M Saravan lost by a margin of 13521 votes.
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