Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru/Udupi (JD/DRD)
Mangaluru/Udupi, Apr 11: The most awaited list of BJP candidates to contest the Assembly polls in the state including Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts. is out.
Vedavyasa Kamath has secured the ticket again from Mangaluru South constituency while
Dr Bharat Y Shetty will contest from Mangaluru North and Satish Kumpala from Mangaluru.
Four candidates have been announced for constituencies of Udupi district.
In Udupi, Yashpal Suvarna has been given a party ticket replacing sitting MLA Raghupati Bhat. In Kaup constituency, Bunt community leader Gurme Suresh Shetty has been given ticket replacing sitting MLA Lalaji R Mendon.
Udupi District
Dakshina Kannada District
In Kundapur, as expected Kiran Kumar Kodgi has been given ticket for the place of Halady Srinivas Shetty.
Only Karkala MLA Sunil Kumar has been given a repeat ticket in the entire district.
Three out of five MLAs have been kept out of the race by the high command.
Byndoor candidate name is yet to be announced.
Meanwhile, Harish Poonja will contest from Beltangady, Umanatha Kotyan from Moodbidri, Asha Thimmappa Gowda from Puttu, Rajesh Naik from Bantwal, Bhagirathi Murulya from Sullya and Suresh Shetty Gurme from Kaup.
Bommai in fray from Shiggaon; R Ashok against DKS, V Sommana v/s Siddaramaiah
The BJP on Tuesday released its first list of candidates, comprising 189 names, for the May 10 Karnataka Assembly elections.
The list was released at the party headquarters in the national capital by Karnataka election in-charge and Union minister Dharmendra Pradhan and BJP General Secretary and Karnataka in-charge Arun Singh in the presence of other leaders.
Chief Minister Basavraj Bommai will contest from his Shiggaon constituency.
Singh said that the list includes 52 fresh faces, while there are 32 candidates from the OBC category, 30 from the Scheduled Castes and 16 from the Scheduled Tribes.
Expressing confidence about the party's victory, Singh said that the people of the state trust Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP. While on the other hand, he alleged that the Congress is losing space in Karnataka and is crippled by infighting while the Janata Dal-Secular is "a sinking ship".
The saffron party has fielded V. Somanna on Varuna seat to take on Congress heavyweight Siddaramaiah. Somanna will also be contesting from Chamarajnagar constituency. He had previously contested from Govindraj Nagara constituency.
Similarly, R. Ashok will contest on two seats, from his home seat Padmanabhanagar and from Kanakpura against Congress' D.K. Shivakumar.
B.Y. Vijayendra, the son of former Chief Minister and BJP leader B.S. Yediyurappa, will contest from Shikaripura seat, the same constituency where his father had won seven times since 1983. State minister B. Sriramulu will contest from Bellary Rural.
BJP National General Secretary C.T. Ravi will contest from Chikkamagaluru.
The saffron party has fielded Yashpal Suvarna, who had aggressively campaigned for Hijab ban, from Udupi seat.
The BJP's election committee met in the national capital over the weekend to finalise the names.
Karnataka has a total of 224 Assembly seats. The counting of votes will be taken up on May 13.
(With inputs from IANS)