The bye-elections are slated to be held on December 5 in 15 Assembly constituencies.
The All India Congress Committee on Thursday announced the names of candidates for eight of the 15 Assembly constituencies, where the bye-elections are slated to be held on December 5. The party has carefully selected both veteran and new leaders to contest polls in several crucial segments. The bye-elections were necessitated after 13 of its legislators rebelled and resigned in July this year. This led to the fall of the Congress-JD(S) coalition. The Congress has been faced with the task of selecting worthy candidates as the rebel leaders are likely to be offered tickets to contest the bye-elections by the BJP. Here is the list of eight candidates: Yellapur: Bhimanna Naik Bhimanna Naik is the incumbent Uttara Kannada District Congress Committee President. Bhimanna Naik was chosen over another major contender Prashant Deshpande, former Revenue Minister RV Deshpande’s son. Congress insiders say that the high command wanted to show its appreciation for “loyal party workers” by choosing him over Prashant. Bhimanna Naik had contested the 2018 Assembly elections on a Congress ticket from the Sirsi segment and had lost to Vishweshwar Hegde Kageri, the incumbent Speaker of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly. Hirekerur: BH Bhannikod A veteran Congress leader, BH Bhannikod has been elected from the Hirekerur segment twice before. He first contested elections in 1989 from this constituency on a Janata Dal ticket and won the elections. He lost in 1994 and in 1999, he quit the Dal and contested as an independent and won. He contested once more in 2013 as an independent and won the elections. In the years 2004, 2008 and 2018 he lost to the then Congress BC Patil, one of the disqualified MLAs who rebelled. Ranebennur: KB Koliwad A four-time MLA from Ranebennur and a veteran leader in Karnataka state politics, KB Koliwad, who has held crucial governmental positions, is a Congress veteran. He, however, lost to Karnataka Pragnyavanta Janata Paksha (KPJP) candidate R Shankar alias Pendulum Shankar in 2018 by a very slim margin. KB Koliwad was the Speaker of the Karnataka Assembly in 2013. Prior to that, he served as the Minister of State for Drinking Water Supply in the SM Krishna cabinet. He has been elected as the MLA from Ranebennur in the 1985, 1989, 1999 and 2013 elections. Chikkaballapur: M Anjanappa A controversial candidate, the Chikkaballapura District Congress Committee President M Anjanappa has finally bagged the ticket to contest against his archrival Dr K Sudhakar. In 2013, M Anjanappa, a loyal Congress member, was unhappy when the high command decided to offer the Chikkaballapura ticket to Dr Sudhakar. At the time, M Anjanappa had also camped in New Delhi and had openly expressed his dissatisfaction over being sidelined. Despite his attempts to bag the ticket, Dr Sudhakar was chosen to contest as he was close to former Chief Minister Siddaramaiah. KR Puram: M Narayanaswamy The former KR Puram block Congress President and former aide of disqualified Congress MLA Byrathi Basavaraj, M Narayanaswamy has been chosen to contest against heavyweight and rebel Byrathi Basavaraj. M Narayanaswamy was appointed as the Member of the Legislative Council (MLC) on the recommendation of Byrathi Basavaraj, who was his former mentor. M Narayanaswamy is also a close associate of Congress leader DK Shivakumar and organised his arrival bash in Bengaluru on Saturday. Mahalakshmi Layout: M Shivaraj M Shivaraj is currently the BBMP corporator from the Shankaramata ward in Mahalaksmi Layout. Congress sources say that the party is showcasing Shivaraj as its fresh face as he has not been mired in controversies unlike other corporators in the constituency. M Shivaraj is also a close associate of former Home Minister and Congress veteran Ramalinga Reddy. Hoskote: Padmavati Suresh The wife of Hebbal MLA Byrathi Suresh, Padmavati Suresh has been chosen as the candidate to contest in Hoskote. Padmavati is the sister-in-law of Congress rebel and disqualified MLA Byrathi Basavaraj. Since September this year, Padmavati began campaigning for the Congress in Hoskote and soon it began making statement against heavyweight MTB Nagaraju, another Congress rebel. Nagaraju was a very close associate of Siddaramaiah and his betrayal has led the former CM to throw his weight behind Padmavati. Siddaramaiah has also paid numerous visits to Hoskote and repeatedly called Nagaraju a betrayer. By pitting his close associate – Byrathi Suresh’s wife, who is also from the Kuruba community, Siddaramaiah aims to defeat his former loyalist. Hunsur: HP Manjunath The Congress’ choice of candidate from Hunsur is unsurprising. HP Manjunath had contested on a Congress ticket from this segment in 2013 and had won. However, due to anti-incumbency, he had lost to JD(S) candidate AH Vishwanath in the 2018 elections. Vishwanath had defected from the Congress to JD(S) in 2017 after a fallout with Siddaramaiah. Vishwanath, who expected a ministerial berth, was ignored by the JD(S) top brass. He led the rebellion against the coalition government and has on multiple occasions criticised former Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy. Vishwanath is likely to contest from a BJP ticket in the bye-elections.
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