Bengaluru: Congress rules out support to JD(S), decides to contest third RS seat


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Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru

Bengaluru, Mar 11: Flatly turning down the request from Opposition JD(S) to extend support for its industrialist candidate B M Farooq for the Rajya Sabha seat, the ruling Congress party has decided to try its luck by gambling on winning the third out of the four Rajya Sabha seats from the Karnataka Legislative Assembly.

The Congress party has decided to field Syed Naseer Hussain, AICC spokesman, L Hanumanthaiah, former MLC and former Kannada Development Authority chairman, and G C Chandrashekar, Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee general secretary and former Chairman of Karnataka Urban Water Supply and Drainage Board (KUWSDB).

Chandrashekar is the third candidate of the Congress.

In terms of caste equation, the party has decided to field candidates from minority (Naseer Hussain - Ballari), Dalit (L Hanumanthiah - Bengaluru Rural) and dominant Vokkalinga community (G C Chandrashekar-Hassan).

Hussain, a Youth Congress leader, obtained doctorate in international politics from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

Farook of the JD(S) has already filed his nomination papers. He contested 2016 Rajya Sabha elections and was defeated.

Each candidate require 44 votes in the 225 member in the Assembly.

The Congress has 123 members, including Speaker, BJP - 43, JD(S) - 37, Badavara Shramikarra Raithara Paksha - 3, Karnataka Janata Paksha - 2, Karnataka Makkala Paksha - 1, Independents - 8, and nominated - 1. There are seven vacant seats in the Assembly.

The third candidate of the Congress is expected to emerge victorious with the likely support of seven JD(S) rebels and B R Patil of the Karnataka Janata Paksha, independent MLA B.R. Nagendra, and Ashok Kheny (Karnataka Makkala Paksha).

Elections to four Rajya Sabha are scheduled on March 23.

The term of four members of the Upper House - Rajiv Chandrashekar (Independent), Rahman Khan (Congress), Basavaraj Patil Sedam and R Ramakrishna (Both BJP) - would get ended on April 2, 2018.

Meanwhile, the BJP has reportedly decided to field Rajiv Chandrashekar, who hails from Kerla, as its candidate due to pressure from the RSS.

  

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  • Vincent Rodrigues, Bengaluru/Katapadi

    Mon, Mar 12 2018

    Good to contest all the seats and garnish support to win the third contestant too

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  • Dinesh, Dubai

    Mon, Mar 12 2018

    JDS will give tight reply in mysore upcoming election.. Niddanna get ready to sit in home.

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  • RAHUL, MANGALORE

    Mon, Mar 12 2018

    Dinesh you are balancing your legs in two horses.
    be careful you will falldown from both.

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  • j.anata, Mangaluru / Bengaluru

    Mon, Mar 12 2018

    For this open back stabbing, JD(S) should immediately withdraw support in BBMP and go and align with BJP which has the largest number of Corporators (100) out of 198 to run the Corporation body

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  • vinod Raj, mangalore

    Mon, Mar 12 2018

    If Congress rules out today..after election JD(s) would root-out the Congress..

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  • prem, moodbidri

    Sun, Mar 11 2018

    BJP has decided to field Rajiv Chandrashekar(Republic TV), due to pressure from the RSS!

    Great gift for chanting FEKUNAAMA day night & covering up FEKUs failure, on Republic TV

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  • roshan deenn, Mangalore

    Sun, Mar 11 2018

    Hypocrisy of Congress. In UP byelection:The saffron party has fielded Kaushalendra Singh Patel from Phulpur and Upendra Dutt Shukla from Gorakhpur against the SP's Pravin Nishad and Nagendra Pratap Singh Patel, respectively. The Congress has nominated Sureetha Kareem for Gorakhpur and Manish Mishra for Phulpur Lok Sabha seat.
    Here they did not support the SP-BSP combined candidates. But in Karnataka they implore for Secular Votes.Shame on Congress.

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

    Sun, Mar 11 2018

    JD(S) is now exposed & has to go with BJP ...

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