The ruling Bharathiya Janatha party on Tuesday announced its candidate for Karnataka bypolls. The new faces of the party N Muniratna will contest from Rajarajeshwari Nagar, and Dr Rajesh Gowda from Sira. Both candidates are new faces for the party. Muniratna is a former Congress MLA one of the 11 jumped to BJP from Congress in 2019 and Dr Rajesh Gowda is the son of C P Mudalagiriappa former Congress MP from Chitradurga. 

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The Supreme Court bench comprising of Chief Justice Sharad Bobde, Justice AS Bopanna and Justice V Ramasubramanian dismissed special leave petitions filed by BJP State Unit Secretary Tulasi Muniraju Gowda. The BJP announced his name for the RR Nagar bypoll once the petition is dismissed. The announcement was made after the unanimous agreement by the BJP state core committee as a matter of fulfilling the promise given in 2019.  The BJP hopes to win RR Nagar bypoll, is confident of the candidate’s clout. The Congress has fielded political newbie H Kusuma, wife of IAS Late Dr.Ravi while JDS has chosen local unit chief Krishnamurthy here. 

Congress announced its Candidates for Karnataka Bypolls

Dr Rajesh Gowda is the candidate for Sira constituency. There was a heavy competition by former candidates BK Manjunath and SR Gowda. Dr Rajesh is the former business partner of Opposition leader Siddaramaiah’s son and Varuna MLA Dr Yathindra. Rajesh Gowda will oppose on TB Jayachandra (Congress) and Ammajamma (JDS). Deputy Chief Ministers Govind Karjol and Dr Ashwath Narayan, State General Secretary N Ravikumar, BY Vijayendra, MP PC Mohan, A Narayanaswamy, Poornima Srinivas and Thippeswamy are the eight in charges for SIRA constituency. The RR nagar in charge was given to Arvind Limbavali, R Ashok, ST Somashekhar, Byrathi Basavraj, SRVishwanathare.   

Bypolls to take place in these districts of Karnataka on 3rd November