In a shock transfer, two JD(S) MLCs go to Siddaramaiah searching for help to their occasion candidate
In a shock transfer, two JD(S) MLCs go to Siddaramaiah searching for help to their occasion candidate
As the race for the fourth Rajya Sabha seat from Karnataka will get intense with candidates of all of the three events within the fray, each Congress and Janata Dal (Secular) are actually utilizing secularism card to “convince” one another to withdraw from the race to allow the defeat of the BJP candidate.
While a transparent image will emerge on the final date for withdrawal of nomination on Friday, the BJP at present appears to have an edge with increased variety of extra votes and second preferential votes. This can, nonetheless, change if one of many candidates from the mixed Opposition withdraws in favour of the opposite. Of the opposite three seats, BJP is ready to win two and Congress one seat.
Lahar Singh Siroya (BJP), Mansoor Ali Khan (Congress), and Kupendra Reddy (JD-S) have filed nominations for the fourth seat. The elections are scheduled on June 10.
An inconclusive assembly
A day after former Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy launched a scathing assault on Leader of the Opposition Siddaramaiah for fielding the second Congress candidate, two JD(S) MLCs T.A. Sharavana and B.M. Farooq took political circles abruptly by visiting Mr. Siddaramaiah at his residence searching for Congress’s help to the JD(S) candidate.
“On direction from the party supremo H.D. Deve Gowda, we have appealed to the former Chief Minister to withdraw their candidate and support the JD(S). This will help the candidate from a secular party to win and thwart BJP’s effort to get the fourth seat too,” Mr. Sharavana informed The Hindu. He additionally mentioned that Mr. Siddaramaiah was non-committal since two extra days had been left for the withdrawal of nomination.
DKS’s attraction
On the opposite, KPCC president D.Okay. Shivakumar appealed to the JD(S) leaders to assist the younger Congress candidate to win that can assist secular forces defeat the BJP. He additionally identified that Congress helped Mr. Gowda to sail by in earlier Rajya Sabha elections, and likewise regardless of having extra variety of seats the Congress left the Chief Minister’s submit to JD(S) in coalition.
The Congress is learnt to have fielded the Muslim candidate to embarrass JD(S) by asking for help to show its secular credential, and likewise pressure the BJP to area its third candidate. “If talks breakdown and the BJP candidate succeeds in the election Congress would be to be blamed for sacrificing a Muslim candidate and also allowing BJP to win an extra seat,” JD Legislative Party Deputy Leader Bandeppa Kashempur mentioned.
Meanwhile, JD(S) sources mentioned that they had been assured that the Congress candidate will withdraw from fray, and that their prime management will converse to the Congress’s management once more over the problem if essential. “There will be more clarity once Mr. Kumaraswamy returns from Singapore.”
Source: www.thehindu.com
