Karnataka Polls 2023: The excitement has intensified before the assembly elections in Karnataka. Meanwhile, parties are announcing their candidates. Meanwhile 10 Congress on Thursday announced its five candidates for the assembly elections to be held in May. The sixth and final list of candidates has been released. Looking at the list, Mohd. Salam from Raichur assembly constituency, B.V. Rajeev Gowda, CV Raman Nagar to S. Anand Kumar, Arkalgud to H.P. Sridhar Gowda and Inayat Ali have been nominated from Mangaluru City (North).

)Please mention here that the last date for filing nominations is 24 April while The last date for withdrawal of nomination is April. Whereas, the polling will be held on 24 May while the counting of votes will be held on Will happen on May. The Congress had declared four more candidates on Wednesday evening, including the name of Yasir Ahmed Khan Pathan. Pathan has been fielded against Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai from the Shiggaon constituency. First ticket was given to Mohammad Yusuf Savanur against the Chief Minister. Pathan was fielded in place of Savanur.

BJP eyes on ‘Lingayat’ vote

)After the release of the fifth list, the Congress has now announced the names of the candidates for all the assembly seats. given. Meanwhile, Lingayat leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have advocated launching a ‘Lingayat Chief Minister’ campaign in the poll-bound state of Karnataka to counter Congress’s claim of terming the ruling party as ‘anti-Lingayat’. It is notable that the politically influential Lingayat community is about 10 percent of the state’s population. Most of the people of this community are in the northern parts of the state. BJP sees them as its strong supporter class.

Jagdish Shettar left the BJP

It may be noted that senior Lingayat leaders Jagadish Shettar and Laxman Savadi 10 left the BJP after not getting a ticket in the assembly elections to be held in May. And joined Congress. Since then, the Congress has been accusing the BJP of doing ‘injustice’ to Lingayats and of being ‘anti-Lingayat’. In view of this, the ruling party has started making efforts to make up for the loss.

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