Congress fields Kharge’s son-in-law in Karnataka, kids of 5 point out ministers
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Bengaluru: The Congress has introduced Radhakrishna Doddamani, son-in-legislation of the party’s countrywide president Mallikarjuna Kharge, as its candidate from Kalaburagi — a reserved seat positioned in the northeastern region of Karnataka — for the future Lok Sabha elections.His nomination is amid those people mentioned by the Congress Thursday for 24 seats in Karnataka. The party is nevertheless to announce candidates for the remaining four seats — Kolar, Chikkaballapur, Chamarajanagar, and Ballari.
For Kharge, this will mark the end of his active political career that started in 1969 with his appointment as the metropolis Congress president for Kalaburagi (then Gulbarga). His foray into electoral politics followed in 1972.


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He has represented the Gurmitkal assembly constituency a file nine situations and has been elected as member of parliament from Kalaburagi two times. He was referred to as “solillada saradara” (Kananda for leader who was never ever defeated), right up until he suffered his to start with at any time setback in 2019 at the hands of his former aide, Umesh Jadhav of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He then entered the Rajya Sabha.
Talking to ThePrint, N.M. Sudarshan, a Congress worker from Kalaburagi said that Radhakrishna, also referred to as ‘RK Sahebru’, is Kharge’s “backbone”.“RK Sahebru has usually remained guiding the scenes but is the Dodd Sahebru’s (Kharge) backbone in the constituency,” he explained.Kharge’s son, Priyank, is a cabinet minister of rural advancement and panchayat raj, IT/BT in Karnataka.In its newest list, the Congress has provided tickets to the small children of five sitting down ministers as the occasion grappled to discover suitable candidates in the point out.
According to occasion sources, almost five sitting ministers were questioned to contest the Lok Sabha elections as the Congress did not have candidates. All five declined. Following this, the occasion selected to give tickets to the young children of sitting ministers.This involves Sowmya Reddy, former MLA and daughter of Transport minister Ramalinga Reddy, versus BJP’s Tejasvi Surya from Bengaluru South.Final yr, Sowmya experienced misplaced the Jayanagar assembly elections by 16 votes amid allegations of vote rigging. Individuals aware of the developments say that she was hesitant to contest the Lok Sabha elections.The many others incorporate Priyanka Jarkiholi, daughter of General public Functions department (PWD) minister Satish Jarkiholi, who will be the party’s candidate from Chikkodi Mrunal Hebbalkar, son of Women of all ages and youngster growth minister Lakshmi Hebbalkar, from Belagavi Samyukta Patil, daughter of textiles minister Shivananda Patil, from Bagalkot Sagar Khandre, son of forest minister Eshwar Khandre, from Bidar.
On top of that, Mansoor Ali Khan, son of previous Union minister and senior Congress leader K. Rahman Khan, has been fielded from Bengaluru Central.“Even while there are deserving candidates, the bash is fielding ministers’ small children, even those who are reluctant to contest,” claimed a nationwide Congress leader, requesting anonymity.The chief cited over added that there was minor coordination amongst main minister Siddaramaiah and his Deputy D.K. Shivakumar on distribution of tickets since both had been a lot more involved about fielding those people faithful to them and not all those who had superior probabilities of winning.Jayaprakash Hegde, the previous Karnataka State Commission for Backward Classes and the individual who submittedthe caste census report to Siddaramaiah authorities in February, has been named the party’s candidate from Udupi-Chikmagalur. Anjali Nimbalkar, the former MLA from Khanapur who missing her seat in 2023, is the Congress’s candidate from Uttara Kannada. In Davangere, Prabha Mallikarjun, spouse of mines & geology minister S.S. Mallikarjun, is the party’s candidate.
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The Congress has arrive out with a checklist right after rigorous conversations above ticket distribution. The social gathering, which came to power with a relaxed vast majority in the May well 2023 assembly elections, is hoping to acquire missing ground soon after it was reduced to just one particular earn in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.The Congress experienced faced the final general elections with the Janata Dal (Secular), or JD(S), that has now allied with the BJP for the future polls.The BJP won an unparalleled 25 out of the 28 Lok Sabha seats in 2019 and is hoping to do even greater this time all over.
But infighting, dissent around ticket distribution and allegations that former main minister B.S. Yediyurappa has ignored senior leaders, has cast a shadow on the party’s outlook.K.S. Eshwarappa, a senior BJP leader, stays fully commited to battle the future elections in opposition to Yediyurappa’s son in Shivamogga as an independent, though D.V. Sadananda Gowda wishes to “cleanse” the bash from in just.Basavaraj Bommai, the former CM and BJP’s candidate from Haveri, said that Eshwarappa experienced spoken emotionally.“Soon the social gathering national leaders would critically converse to him. The party’s central parliamentary board assembly would be held where by the next record of candidates would be produced,” Bommai reported in a statement Thursday.
The BJP has introduced its record of candidates for 20 seats and continues to deliberate on the remaining 8, such as people it will give to the JD(S).(Edited by Zinnia Ray Chaudhuri)
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