BENGALURU: The second list of candidates announced by Janata Dal (Secular) has many politicians who have hopped from various parties after they were denied tickets.
Senior leader PGR Sindhia who is holding one of the top positions in JD(S) will be contesting from Basavakalyana assembly constituency in Bidar district. Sindhia had contested assembly election 2013 with JD(S) ticket, but he was later supporting Congress. Only in October 2017, he had rejoined JD(S).
Actor turned politician Shashikumar who was keen to contest from Molakalmuru was denied a Congress ticket. Recently, he joined JD(S) and he has been given ticket to contest from Hosadurga assembly constituency.
Academician and former MLA Hemachandra Sagar was not given ticket to contest from BJP in Chickpet assembly constituency. He will now contest on JD(S) ticket for the same assembly constituency. In 2008, Hemachandra Sagar won as BJP MLA from Chickpet assembly election.
Former BBMP councillor G H Ramachandra who has been supporting BJP all these days had his eyes set on Rajarajeshwarinagar assembly constituency. After he learnt his name was not in the BJP's list, he joined JD(S) recently along with his son Jagadish and actress Amulya who is his daughter-in-law. He has been given ticket from RR Nagar and he will be contesting against sitting MLA Munirathna from Congress.
Some of the other names include Jedrahalli Krishnappa who has several criminal cases against him, JD(S) councillor from Jagajeevanaramnagar assembly constituency Seema's husband Althaf and others.
WHO ALL GOT THE TICKET TO CONTEST ?
KAGWAD : Mogannanavar
KUDACHI(SC): Rajendraannappa Haihole
HUKKERI: MB Patil
GOKAK: KariyappaLakshmanTalwar
YAMKANAMARDI (ST): Shankar Barmagasthi
BELGAUM UTTAR: Dharmaraj
KHANAPUR: Nasir Bhagvan
SAUNDATTI: D.F.Patil
MUDHOL(SC): Shankar Naik
JAMKHANDI: Sadashivamaruti Kalaal
BILGI: Sangappa Tandgal
HUNGUND: Shivannagoundi
MUDDEBIHAL: Mangaladevi Biradar
DEVARHIPPARGI: Rajugowda Patil
SEDAM: Sunitha
BASAVAKALYAN: PGR Sindhya
BHALKI: PrakashKandre
AURAD (SC): Dhanaji Jadav
RAICHUR RURAL (ST): Ravi Patil
RAICHUR: Mahantesh Patil
GANGAWATI: Kariyanna Sangati
KOPPAL: Sayyed
RON: Ravi Doddameti
NARGUND: Girish Patil
RAJARAJESHWARI NAGAR: G H Ramachandra
MALLESHWARAM: Madhusudhan
C.V. RAMAN NAGAR(SC): Ramesh
SHANTI NAGAR: Sridhar Reddy
RAJAJI NAGAR: Jedarahalli Krishnappa
CHAMRAJPET: Altaf
CHICKPET: Hemchandra Sagar
JAYANAGAR: Tanveer Ahmad
BANGALORE SOUTH: R Prabhakar Reddy
CHANNAPATNA: HD Kumaraswamy
MANDYA: M Srinivas
MOODABIDRI: Amarnath Shetty
NANJANGUD(SC): Dayananda
HANUR: Manjunath
BOMMANAHALLI: N. Somshekar
KANAKAPURA: Narayanagowda
AFJALPUR: Govind Bhat
KALGHATG: Nimbanna
SHIGGAON: Ashok Bevinamarad
HADAGALLI(SC): Putresh
HAGARIBOMMANAHALL1 (SC): S. Krishna Naik
KAMPLI(ST): B Narayanappa
SIRUGUPPA(ST): GK Hanumanthappa
BELLARY (ST): Thayanna
BELLARY CITY: lqbal Ahmad
HOSADURGA: Shashikumar
JAGALUR(ST): Devendrappa
DAVANAGERE NORTH: Vaddanahalli Shivashankar
DAVANAGERE SOUTH: Amanulla Khan
KUNDAPURA: Tekkatte Prakahshetty
TARIKERE: Shivashankarappa
GAURIBIDANUR: Narasimhamurthy