BJP's CM face Yeddyurappa files nomination for Karnataka polls


Bengaluru, Apr 19 (IANS): The Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) Chief Ministerial candidate for the May 12 Karnataka Assembly polls, B.S. Yeddyurappa, on Thursday filed his nomination papers from Shikaripura Assembly segment, a party official said.

"Yeddyurappa has filed his nomination from Shikaripura constituency," the party's state spokesman S. Shantharam told IANS here.

He will be contesting from his hometown Shikaripura in Shivamogga district, about 300 km northwest of Bengaluru, for the eighth time since 1983.

Yeddyurappa, 75, a Lok Sabha member from Shivamogga in the state's Malnad region, was the BJP's first Chief Minister in Karnataka from 2008 to 2011 when he resigned following an indictment by the state ombudsman (Lokayukta) in a multi-crore mining scam.

In a related development, another BJP leader K.S. Eshwarappa, the party's leader in the state Legislative Council, also filed his nomination from Shivamogga Assembly segment.

Eshwarappa, who was the Deputy Chief Minister in the BJP's first government in the state from 2008 to 2013, will be contesting from the seat for the sixth time. He lost the seat in the 2013 Assembly elections to the Congress.

Also, the ruling Congress' Energy Minister D.K. Shivakumar filed his nomination from Kanakapura in Ramanagara district, about 55 km from Bengaluru.

Polling across the state's 224 Assembly segments will take place in a single phase on May 12 from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Votes are to be counted on May 15, as per the notification issued by Governor Vajubhai R. Vala on Tuesday.

According to it, April 24 is the last date for filing nominations. Scrutiny of nominations will be on April 25 and the last date for withdrawal of candidature is April 27.

  

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  • Fayaz, Mangalore dubai

    Fri, Apr 20 2018

    If YEDDY becomes cm then also 4 to 5 more
    People of Karnataka will be getting post of cm
    Because last time because of ram raj of teddy
    He was made to resign
    Now this time others are also happy
    Like below to some how get cm post for atleast 6 months
    1 saddanad gowda
    2 shettar of hubli
    3 ashoka
    4 shoba akka
    What a rule last time what a pure suwach party
    All have the chance to make wealth and foreign tour

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  • Fayaz, Mangalore dubai

    Fri, Apr 20 2018

    If YEDDY wins or looses in both the case he will not be cm of Karnataka
    Because he will be thrown out and some rogi or some bakth of feku will be
    Given the post
    The feku and daccu did not live many rss people who built
    BJP to get any post like advani
    They will make yeddy a cm he is day dreaming
    Shobaka ....
    YEDDY will be out soon

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  • Deva, Pilar

    Thu, Apr 19 2018

    Kannadigas will not elect corrupt leaders anymore... so the result is already out.

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