Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (SP)

Bengaluru, Oct 31: Even as rumours of H D Deve Gowda's grandson, Prajwal Revanna, deciding to contest the assembly election from Rajarajeshwarinagar constituency in the city died down, it is being said now that former chief minister of Karnataka, S M Krishna, is planning to field his daughter, Shambhavi Umesh Mallya, as BJP candidate from this constituency.

If information provided by certain sources is to be believed, Krishna is already preparing the ground for introducing his daughter to politics. A number of Vokkaliga leaders from this constituency had met Krishna and urged him to field his daughter in order to bring an end to atrocities, harassment and corruption indulged in by current Congress legislator from this constituency, Munirathna.

Krishna has responded favourably and held discussions with leaders of various communities from this region including Vokkaligas, as per information.

Krishna's elder daughter, Malavika Siddharth, is not interested in politics but his younger daughter, Shambhavi, has a leaning towards politics. Krishna has identified her interest and begun to prepare the field for her entry. Rumours earlier had said that Krishna, who had left Congress and joined BJP recently, would make his son-in-law, Siddharth, a MLC. But no such developments have happened so far.

The fact that three women corporators of Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike have revolted against local MLA, Munirathna, and that Vokkaliga community that has formidable presence in the constituency was given a rough treatment in the recent years, are coming in handy for Krishna's plans. It is being said that relationship of Munirathna and Vokkaliga leaders with minister, Shivakumar, is not too good. S M Krishna wants to encash this opportunity, political analysts believe.

Krishna had recently summoned an influential Vokkaliga leader from the area, who happens to be the chairman of a corporation and close to minister, Shivakumar, through former deputy chief minister of Karnataka, R Ashoka, for talks. There is also information that he invited several leaders who had left BJP for various reasons in the recent past, and held consultations with them.

Although Krishna has been requested by BJP leaders from Mandya to field his daughter from either Mandya or Maddur constituencies, Krishna has shown preference to Rajarajeshwari constituency here.