BJP, Congress finalize first list for Karnataka Lok Sabha seats
Daijiworld Media Network - Bangalore
Bangalore, Feb 7: The state BJP has finalized the candidate list for 20 seats for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls. On Thursday February 6, the list was given a final touch at Ananth Kumar's residence in New Delhi in the presence of party's national president Rajnath Singh.
Candidates for the rest of the 8 seats will be finalised soon, according to state BJP sources.
As per the list, the battle will be between former CM D V Sadananda Gowda of BJP and sitting MP Jayaprakash Hegde of Congress for Udupi-Chikmagalur seat.
The list of 20 BJP candidates is as follows:
Bangalore North - R Ashok
Udupi-Chikmagalur - Sadananda Gowda
Mangalore - Nalin Kumar
North Kanara - Ananthkumar Hegde
Belgaum - Suresh Angadi
Chikkodi - Ramesh Katti
Bijapur - Ramesh Jigajinagi
Bagalkot - Gaddi Gowder
Gulbarga - Revu Nayak Belamagi
Bidar - Raghunath Malapure
Davangere - G M Siddesh
Chitradurga - Janardhana Swamy
Bangalore South - Ananthkumar
Bangalore Central - P C Mohan
Kolar - B Narayan Swamy
Mysore - Shobha Karandlaje
Chamarajnagar - Krishnamurthy
Haveri - Shivkumar Udasi
Dharwad - Prahlad Joshi
Shikaripur - B S Yeddyurappa
Congress could finalise only 9 candidates for the Karnataka Lok Sabha seats so far. Mangalore and Bangalore north constituency will be decided by internal election process.
The Congress first list is as follows:
Mysore - H Vishwanath
Udupi-Chikmagalur - J P Hegde
Chamarajnagar - Druvnarayan
Chikballapur - Veerappa Moily
Kolar - KH Muniappa
Gulbarga - Mallikarjuna Kharge
Bidar - Dharam Singh
Mandya - Ramya
Bangalore Rural - D K Suresh