The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has released its first list of candidates for the upcoming Karnataka elections.
Karnataka BJP president BS Yeddyurappa had sent a list of 140 names to the party’s Central Election Committee. But 72 candidates were chosen from them.
The list has prominent nominees like BJP’s chief ministerial face B S Yeddyurappa, K S Eshwarappa, Jagadish Shettar, Basavaraj Bommai, C.M. Udasi, K.V. Hegde and B. Sriramulu.
Yeddyurappa will contest from Shikaripura, while his arch rival KS Eswarappa will fight from Shimoga.
The BJP became the second party after Janata Dal (Secular) [JD(S)] to release its candidature list for the May 12 polls for the 224 seats in the southern state.
The ruling Congress is expected to come up with its candidate list on April 15.
Here is the first list of BJP candidates for upcoming Karnataka assembly elections as announced by the party’s Central Election Committee:
1. Shashikala Jolle from Nippani constituency
2. Laxman Savadi from Athani
3. Bharamagouda H Kage from Kagwad
4. P Rajeev from Kudachi (SC)
5. Duryodhana Aihole from Raybag (SC)
6. Umesh Katti from Hukkeri
7. Balachandra Jarakiholi from Arabhavi
8. Sanjay Patil from Belgaum Rural
9. Vishwanatha Patil from Baihongal
10. Anand Vishwanath Mamani from Saudatti Yellamma
11. Govind Karjol from Mudhol (SC)
12. AS Patil Nadahalli from Muddebihal
13. Vijugouda Patil from Babaleshwar
14. Basavanagouda Patil Yetnal from Bijapur City
15. Ramesh Bhusanur from Sindgi
16. Malikaiah Guttedar from Afzalpur
17. Naraishma Naik from Shorapur (ST)
18. Guru Patil Shiraval from Shahpur
19. Dattatrya Patil Revur from Gulbarga Dakshin
20. Subhash Guttedar from Aland
21. Mallikarjun Khuba from Basavakalyan
22. Prabhu Chouhan from Aurad (SC)
23. Thipparaju Havaldar from Raichur Rural (ST)
24. Shivaraj Patil from Raichur
25. Shivanagouda Naik from Devadurga (ST)
26. Manappa Vajjal from Lingsugur (SC)
27. Doddanagouda Patil from Kushtagi
28. Amruth Desai from Dharwad
29. Jagdadeesh Shettar from Hubli-Dharwad-Central
30. Aravinda Bellad from Hubli-Dharwad-West
31. Roopali Naik from Karwar
32. Kageri Vishweswara Hegde from Sirsi
33. CM Udasi from Hangal
34. Basavaraj Bommai from Shiggaon
35. UB Banakar from Hirekerur
36. Gaviyappa from Vijayanagara
37. TH Suresh Babu from Kampli (ST)
38. B Raghavendra from Sandur (ST)
39. B Sriramulu from Molokalmuru (ST)
40. GH Thippareddy from Chitradurga
41. Poornima Srinivas from Hiriyur
42. Gulihatti D Shekhar from Hosadurga
43. SA Ravindranath from Dacanagere North
44. KS Eswarappa from Shimoga
45. BS Yeddyurappa (Chief ministerial candidate) from Shikaripura
46. Haladi Srinivasa Setty from Kundapura
47. V Sunil Kumar from Karkal
48. DN Jeevaraj from Sringeri
49. CT Ravi from Chikmagaluru
50. B Suresh Gowda from Tumkur Rural
51. Y Sampangi from Kolar Gold Field (SC)
52. SR Vishwanath from Yelahanka
53. PM Muniraju Gowda from Rajarajeshwari Nagar
54. S Muniraju from Dasarahalli
55. CN Ashwathnarayan from Malleshwaram
56. YA Narayanaswamy from Hebbal
57. S Raghu from CV Raman Nagar (SC)
58. S Sureshkumar from Rajaji Nagar
59. V Somanna from Govindraj Nagar
60. Uday Garudachar from Chickpet
61. Ravi Subramanya from Basavanagudi
62. R Ashok from Padmanaba Nagar
63. BN Vijayakumar from Jayanagar
64. Aravinda Limbaveli from Mahadevapura (SC)
65. Satish Reddy from Bommanahalli
66. M Krishnappa from Bangalore South
67. A Narayanaswamy from Anekal (SC)
68. Sharath Bachegowda from Hosakote
69. CP Yogishwar from Channapatna
70. Nanjunde Gowda from Shrirangapattana
71. S Angara from Sullia (SC)
72. Appachu Ranjan from Sullia (SC)
Full schedule of the Karnataka Assembly election 2018:
Date of issue of notification: April 17
Last date of nomination: April 24
Date of scrutiny: April 25
Date of withdrawal of candidature: April 27
Date of polling: May 12
Date of counting: May 15
Pic credit: Karnataka BJP Facebook post