Karnataka elections: The BJP on April 8 had declared its first list of 72 nominees that included its chief ministerial candidate B S Yeddyurappa (left), and senior leaders K S Eshwarappa and Jagadish Shettar. Reddy’s elder brother G Somashekar Reddy will contest from Bellary City while Kumar Bangarappa will contest from Sorab. In the BJP’s second list, Krishnaiah Setty, an old associate of Yeddyurappa, has been fielded from Malur. In the 2013, assmebly polls, the BJP was reduced to 40 seats while the Congress had won 122 seats. Yeddyurappa had floated his own party, Karnataka Janata Paksha, in the last elections after he was removed as chief minister by the BJP over graft charges.

Source: Indian Express April 16, 2018 12:30 UTC