D K Shivakumar, President KPCC handing over B Form to Dr Yathindra S Congress Candidate for the Biennial Election to the Karnataka Legislative Council by the Member of the Legislative Assembly of Karnataka at Vidhana Soudha in Bengaluru on Monday, 03rd June 2024. Bilkhees Banu, A Vasanth Kumar, K Govindraj seen.
DH Photo/ S K Dinesh
Bengaluru: All 11 candidates from Congress, BJP and JD(S) who filed their nomination papers, on Monday, for elections to the Council from the Assembly are likely to get elected unopposed.
For the lone seat that it can win, JD(S) has nominated T N Javarayi Gowda.
Dr Yatindra, chief minister Siddaramaiah’s son, Balkis Bano from Bhadravathi (Shivamogga district), Minor Irrigation Minister N S Boseraju, CM’s political adviser K Govindraj, KPCC working president Vasanth Kumar, former MLC Ivan D’Souza and the party’s Kalaburagi district president Jagdev Guttedar are the candidates from Congress.
The BJP nominees are former minister C T Ravi, N Ravi Kumar and M G Muley.
R M Asif Pasha of the Congress had filed his papers last week. A senior official told DH that Pasha’s candidature may not get through as his papers lack two critical elements - valid signatures of proposers as well as ‘B’ form from the party. Hence, it may be safely concluded that all 11 official candidates would get elected unopposed.