former Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee vice president allayed apprehensions in a section of the media that the Chief Minister Siddaramaiah is contesting from Badami for the fear of losing in his home constituency Chamundeshwari in Mysuru district.
In an informal chat with Hindusthan Samachar, he claimed that there’s nothing unusual about chief minister’s and prime minister’s contesting from two different constituencies.Did not Prime Minister contest from Vadodara in Gujarat and simultaneously at Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh he shot back.
Such contests will make a big impact on the voters of such regions and will help garner more votes along with the traditional one’s explained the former Chairman of the state legislative council.
It may be recalled here that he had quit the party positions he had held so far recently to register his protest against denial of party ticket to contest from Kolar city constituency in neighbouring Kolar district.However he denied quitting the party on such grouse and clarified that he’s only resigned from the positions he had held so far and hasn’t thought of bidding adieu to the party yet.
The Kolar district Congress committee had a piquant situation sometime back when two rival Muslim factions fought among themselves in the party meeting.If one group was trying to persuade the representatives of the state committee to give the party ticket to Muslim this time as well the rival was vehemently opposing the same.
The latter was of the opinion that the party had lost thrice whenever the ticket was given to a Muslim candidate.Interestingly this time also Zameer Ahmed,a former IAS officer has been given the party ticket much against the wishes of local party men. VR Sudarshan was also a contender and ultimately ended up in losing the ticket.
Party sources claim that further damage has been stalled by convincing VR Sudarshan that his interests will be taken care of after the polls.
Hindusthan Samachar/Manohar Yadavatti
