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Deve Gowda to contest from Hassan

Former prime minister and Janata Dal leader H D Deve Gowda will contest the Lok Sabha election from Hassan, his home constituency, in Karnataka.

Meanwhile, the Bharatiya Janata Party has released its full list of 18 candidates for the state.

Party spokesmen Suresh Kumar said legislator M Srinivas and Lok Shakthi state president Jeevaraj Alva would file their nominations in Kanakapura and north Bangalore respectively.

The BJP list includes: Ramachandra Veerappa (Bidar), Basavaraj Patil Sedam (Gulbarga), Mallikarjunappa (Davangere), S Mallikarjunaiah (Tumkur), V Hanumappa (Kolar), H N Ananth Kumar (Bangalore South), V Dhananjay Kumar (Mangalore), C H Vijaya Shankar (Mysore), I M Jayaram Shetty (Udupi), D C Shrikantappa (Chikmagalur), Ayanoor Manjunath (Shimoga), V B Sankeshwar (Dharwad north), Baba Gowda Patil (Belgaum), Susheela Shivappa (Hassan), B I Patil (Bijapur), Ananth D Hegde (Canara), H Srinivas (Mandya).

Shivanand Holchangadi will be the party's candidate for the Dharwad rural assembly constituency. Narayana Swamy would contest for the Anekal seat, the by-election for which would be held along with the Lok Sabha poll.

According to the BJP-Lok Shakthi understanding, the former will contest 18 seats and the latter 10.

The Lok Shakthi, for its part, has named Ramesh Jigajinagi, who had resigned from the J H Patel ministry to join the apolitical Rashtriya Nava Nirmana Vedike, as its candidate for the Chikkodi (SC) seat.

Jigajinagi, who is not a Lok Shakthi member, had figured in the list of five candidates which Alva had released earlier.

The other nominees are: P Kodandaramaiah (Chitradurga), former Rajya Sabha member Abdul Ahmed Siddiqui (Raichur) and N Thippanna (Bellary).

Incidentally, All India Anna Daravida Munnetra Kazhagam general secretary Jayalalitha Jayaram has announced her support to the Lok Shakthi. Jayalalitha said both Alva and the Bharatiya Janata Party had requested her to do so.

Meanwhile, the Karnataka Vikas Party leader and former chief minister S Bangarappa announced a second list of six candidates.

The party has allotted two more seats to the Bahujan Samaj Party, its electoral partner. Thus, besides Bidar, Gulbarga and Kanakapura, the BSA would also contest Chikballapur and Hassan.

The KVP candidates are Ramdas (Mangalore), P Govindaraju (Mysore), Chandrasekhar (Mandya), S B Munivenkatappa (Kolar), D Borappa (Chitradurga) and D R Raju (Chikmagalur).

The party had on January 20 released its first list of 12 candidates which included Bangarappa's candidature.

UNI

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