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BJP launches Karnataka poll campaign, Congress
finalising candidates
Friday March 22, 2013 10:59:43 PM,
IANS
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Mysore:
Karnataka's ruling BJP Friday launched its campaign at a rally
here for the May 5 assembly polls though it is yet to decide its
candidates while the Congress focussed on finalizing its nominees.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) started the exercise to retain
power, which it won for the first time five years ago, with a
public meeting here, 130 km from Bangalore.
This was also the first public meeting addressed by the party's
newly appointed state president Pralhad Joshi, a Lok Sabha member
from Dharwad in north Karnataka, which is also the hometown of
Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar.
Joshi, appointed to the post Thursday, was confident that
Karnataka voters would give the party another term despite various
corruption scandals and dissidence that has marked its first rule.
The BJP was not bothered about the Karnataka Janata Party, headed
by the party's former leader B.S. Yeddyurppa.
Yeddyurappa, who quit the BJP November 30, 2012, to form and head
the KJP, has made the defeat of his former party as his main goal.
He announced candidates for 69 seats Thursday. They include over
10 former BJP ministers and assembly members who have joined the
KJP.
Joshi said the contest would be mainly between the BJP and the
Congress in most places while it would be a triangular battle in
some areas where Janata Dal-Secular has strong presence.
Shettar, his predecessor D.V. Sadananda Gowda, Deputy Chief
Minister K.S. Eshwarappa and party general secretary H.N. Ananth
Kumar held the Congress responsible for increasing corruption and
rising prices of essential commodities.
Meanwhile, state Congress president G. Parameshwara and Leader of
Opposition in the assembly Siddaramaiah were in New Delhi holding
talks with the party's central leaders to finalise its candidates.
The state unit has given to the central leadership a list of three
to five probables for each of the 224 constituencies.
Nominations open April 10 and close April 17. Polling is scheduled
for May 5 and vote count is May 8.
The state assembly is 225-strong, with 224 elected and one
nominated.
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