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Karnataka Bypolls 2019 LIVE: JD(S), Congress, BJP gear up for the upcoming byeelections

With the December 5 date of the Karnataka Bypolls closing in, the parties are campaigning at full steam. The BJP has awarded rebel MLAs with party tickets. Earlier, the Congress-JD(S) expressed displeasure on the Supreme Court's verdict on the disqualified MLAs that allowed them to contest in the upcoming bypolls. Stay tuned for more updates.
Last Updated : 03 December 2019, 13:40 IST

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14:2915 Nov 2019

BJP releases third list of candidates for Karnataka Bypolls. In Ranibennur, the saffron party has fieldedArun Kumar Guththur.

11:4715 Nov 2019

BSY gives up on Roshan Baig, says can’t give him ticket

Seven-time legislator R Roshan Baig has been left deserted as Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa made it public on Friday that the BJP will not give him a ticket to contest the upcoming Karnataka bypolls on December 5.

Baig, the Congress rebel who has been disqualified, was hoping to be inducted into the BJP along with 16 other disqualified rebel MLAs who helped the BJP come to power. Baig also expected the BJP's ticket to contest the bypolls from his Shivajinagar constituency. But Baig was neither inducted nor given the ticket.

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07:5915 Nov 2019

BJP rewards rebel MLAs with tickets

A day after the Supreme Court ruled that the 17 disqualified legislators could contest elections, 15 of them joined the BJP, which named 14 of them as the the party’s candidates for the December 5 byelections.


There were surprises in store as the BJP selected former corporator M Saravana as the candidate for Shivajinagar constituency, while withholding the ticket for the Ranebennur constituency, previously represented by R Shankar.

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15:1814 Nov 2019

Karnataka Bypolls: BJP releases first list of 13 MLAs

The BJP on Thursday released the first list of names of candidates for the upcoming Karnataka bypolls scheduled on December 5, with all the names on the list being that of rebel MLAs from the Congress-JD(S) camp.

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14:4914 Nov 2019

BJP announces names of 13 rebel MLAs(disqualified) as its candidates for the first list of assembly bypolls in Karnataka. The Congress-JDS rebel MLAs had joined BJP earlier today in Bengaluru. - ANI

Published 13 November 2019, 04:55 IST

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