K’taka BJP prepares final list of candidates, most sitting MPs likely to be given ticket

Lok Sabha 2019

While the Karnataka BJP has made recommendations for 27 out of the 28 seats in the state barring the Mandya segment, where actor Sumalatha is likely to contest.

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With just over a month to go for the Lok Sabha Elections in Karnataka, neither the Congress, JD(S) nor the BJP have announced the final list of candidates for the 28 seats in the state. On Sunday afternoon, BJP state President BS Yeddyurappa presided over a meeting held at the party office in Bengaluru’s Malleshwaram. BJP General Secretary and state unit in-charge P Muralidhar Rao, BJP Organising Secretary in-charge of south India BL Santosh, along with BJP leaders DV Sadananda Gowda, Jagadish Shettar, R Ashoka, Arvind Limbavali CT Ravi, Prahallad Joshi and Dakshina Kannada MP Nalinkumar Kateel came up with a final list of recommendations. The list has been sent to the high command in Delhi and is pending approval. BJP sources say that the high command has guaranteed tickets to incumbent MPs and will announce its final list of candidates by Tuesday night. The party has also not made any recommendations for the Mandya segment as the state leaders are awaiting former Congress MP Ambareesh’s wife Sumalatha’s announcement on whether she will contest as a BJP candidate. “If she decides to join the BJP, then she will get the ticket. We are also yet to decide whether we will support her if she contests as an independent or if it would be a friendly fight,” the source added. Here is the final list of candidates: Chikkodi – Ramesh Katti Belagavi – Suresh Anand Bagalkot – PC Gaddigoudar Vijayapura – Ramesh Jigajigani Kalaburgi – Umesh Jadav Raichur – Anantaraju Nayak / Amaresh Nayak / Mahadevamma Bidar – Bhagawant Khuba Koppal – Karadi Sanganna Ballari – Devendrappa (Ramesh Jarkiholi’s father-in-law) / J Shantha Haveri – Shivakumar Udasi Dharwad – Prahallad Joshi Uttara Kannada – Anantkumar Hegde Davangere – GN Siddeshwar Shivamogga – BY Raghavendra Udupi-Chikkamagaluru – Shobha Karandlaje Hassan – A Manju Dakshina Kannada – Nalin Kumar Kateel Chitradurga – Janardhan Swamy / Manappa Vajjal Tumakuru – GS Basavaraju Mysuru-Kodagu – Pratap Simha Chamarajanagar – V Srinivas Prasad Bengaluru Rural – CP Yogeshwar / Rudresh Bengaluru North – Sadananda Gowda Bengaluru Central PC Mohan Bengaluru South – Tejaswini Ananth Kumar Chikkaballapura – BN Bacche Gowda Kolar – DS Veeraiah / Chalavadi Narayanaswamy Mandya – nil

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