Karnataka Polls 2023: Cong announces its final list of candidates
Karnataka Polls 2023: Cong announces its final list of candidates
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BANGALORE: The Congress today, April 20, released its 6th and final list, announcing candidates for the remaining 5 constituencies for the May 10 Assembly polls in Karnataka.

The deadline for submitting nominations is today. In place of current MLA V. Muniyappa, the Congress has nominated B.V. Rajeev Gowda from Sidlaghatta. Mohammed Shalam for Raichur, S. Anand Kumar for C.V. Raman Nagar, H.P. Sridhar Gowda for Arkalgud, and Inayath Ali for Mangalore City North are the other candidates who have been made public.

With this, the Congress has put out candidates for each of the state's 224 Assembly districts. The candidate running against Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai in Shiggaon has been replaced, the Congress declared in a statement on Wednesday night.

The party appointed  Yasir Ahmed Khan Phatan to run in Mohammed Yousuf Savanur's stead as the candidate from Shiggaon in the Haveri district a day after he was first put out.

After it became evident that he would not be renominated, sitting MLA R. Akhanda Srinivasa Murthy filed his nomination as an independent candidate on Wednesday. As a result, the party fielded A.C. Srinivasa from Pulakeshinagar.

A record was set by  Murthy, a Dalit, who won the 2018 Assembly elections with the largest margin of 81,626 votes. In August 2020, a tense crowd set fire to his home and the DJ Halli police station due to a relative's social media remark.

DK Mohan, a candidate for the Congress, is running against Byrathi Basavaraj, a minister in the Basavaraj Bommai administration, in Bengaluru's K R Puram.

Intriguingly, Byrathi Basavaraj had won the seat in the 2018 Assembly elections while running for Congress. He was one of the 17 Congress-JD(S) MLAs whose resignations caused the coalition government to fall and opened the door for the BJP to take office in 2019. He won on a BJP ticket in the ensuing by-elections.

The party has B.C. Muddugangadhar running in Mulbagal. H. Nagesh, an independent candidate who is now running for Congress in Bangalore's Mahadevapura district, won the seat in 2018.

On April 21, nominations will be scrutinised, and on April 24, candidates may withdraw their names from consideration.

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