Kalaburagi, Apr 30 : After facing one of his toughest challenge in his long political career in the just ended Lok Sabha polls in Kalaburgi, Congress stalwart Mallikarjuna Kharge is focusing now on Assembly by-election being held for the Chincholi Assembly seat to be held on May 19.
The by-election to Chincholi was necessitated following the resignation of the incumbent Congress MLA, Umesh Jadhav, who quit the seat and crossed over to candidate to fight Kharge.
With the BJP has fielded Jadhav’s son Avinash Jadhav as its candidate for the Chincholi, the Congress stalwart have got an opportunity to turn the table on Jadhav and settle the political score. Congress has fielded Subhash Rathod, who was till recently with the BJP.
With the Lambani community, forms majority among the SCs in Chincholi reserved constituency, both the parties have chosen their candidates belonging to the Lambani sect.
The voters belonging to the upper caste like Lingayaths, the Muslim Minority, Left and Right communities among the SC community, Kuruba and Koli community plays a key role in ensuring the victory of either of the candidates in Chincholi Taluk, which was once represented in the Assembly, by former Chief minister Virendra Patil and Vyjanath Patil, a leader, who had fought for the cause of conferring special status to the Hyderabad-Karnataka region.
“There would be no better opportunity than now to teach a lesson or two to his BJP opponent in the Lok Sabha elections, to defeat Dr Jadhav both in Chincholi as well as in
Kalaburagi Lok Sabha seat” Shankar Rathod one of the Congress worker in Chincholi taluk, told media.
Dr Sharanaprakash Patil, one of the senior leaders from the district, said that it was also an opportunity to the voters of the Chincholi Assembly, seat to express their resentment against Umesh Jadhav for having ditched the Congress as well as the people by joining the BJP.
In the high pitch Lok Sabha campaign, the BJP candidate, had targeted Kharge and questioned his contribution to the overall development of the district.
To avenge BJP candidate’s tirade made during the Lok Sabha elections, Kharge’s son and Karnataka minister Priyanka Kharge, has taken the lead in ensuring the victory of the party candidate Rathod and was preset when the latter had filed his nomination papers.
The Congress leaders, had organised a huge party workers, rally on the occasion, and almost all the senior Congress leaders were present and pledged their support to the Congress candidate.
