BENGALURU: The Congress on Wednesday evening announced its candidates for the by-polls to Channapatna and Sandur Assembly constituencies. As expected, former BJP MLC CP Yogeshwara, who joined the Congress earlier in the day, will be fielded from Channapatna.
E Annapoorna, wife of Ballari Congress MP E Tukaram, will fight the November 13 bypolls from Sandur.
The Congress is yet to announce its candidate for Shiggaon, where the BJP has fielded Bharat Bommai, son of former chief minister and Haveri MP Basavaraj Bommai.
Earlier in the day, Yogeshwara met Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and DyCM DK Shivakumar. The former minister’s candidature was announced by AICC general secretary KC Venugopal. Yogeshwara had resigned as BJP MLC on Monday.
Now, all eyes are on the JDS camp which has been given the responsibility by the BJP to finalise the candidate for Channapatna.
Channapattana Assembly constituency which was represented by former Chief Minister and Union Minister HD Kumar Swamy has become a prestigious seed for both Congress and JDS leaders. After losing their seat at Bengaluru rural Loksabha seat, in the recent lok sabha polls, DK shivkumar has taken this polls as a personal battle.
As expected, Annapoorna will now be contesting the polls from Sandur, an ST Reserved constituency. She will take on BJP’s Bangaru Hanumantha, who is the BJP ST Morcha state president.
The by-polls to Channapatna, Shiggaon and Sandur were necessitated following the election of HD Kumaraswamy, Basavaraj Bommai and E Tukaram, respectively, to the Lok Sabha in this year’s General Elections.