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Rajarajeshwarinagar Assembly constituency, which goes to the polls subsequent month, has thrown up a peculiar problem for the Janata Dal (Secular) in phrases of candidates ever because it was carved out.
For, candidates fielded by the occasion for the reason that first election in the constituency in 2008 have been “outsiders” who’ve abandoned the occasion quickly after electoral losses, and in one occasion a occasion man who merely went “missing” earlier than the polls.
In 2008, Hanumantharayappa (whose daughter H. Kusuma is the Congress nominee now in R.R. Nagar), was the JD(S) candidate after he was denied ticket by the Congress. A recognized supporter of the present KPCC president D.{K}. Shivakumar, he went again to the Congress after the electoral loss.
In 2013, Thimmananjaiah, the occasion councillor, was given ticket, and in keeping with former Chief Minister and JD(S) chief H.D. Kumaraswamy, he was “not seen by party workers four days before the elections”. In 2018, it was Ramachandra, a native BJP chief, who contested on the JD(S) image, solely to later return to the saffron occasion.
“Mr. Hanumantharayappa was never really our party leader. After the elections, he came and informed me of his inclination to go back to the Congress. In 2013, though we asked Mr. Thaimmananjaiah, whose brother-in-law Andanappa was our party candidate in Dasarahalli, to desist from contesting, he was adamant. I was told he was not seen by party workers four days before the polls,” he stated. He added that Mr. Ramachandra got here to the JD(S) as a result of the BJP had denied him ticket.
“Hence, we are looking for leaders from our party who can contest in R.R. Nagar and not those who will go away before or after the polls,” Mr. Kumaraswamy stated. “Despite the problem with candidates, the party secured nearly 40,000 votes in 2008, only to increase it to 52,000 votes in 2013 and about 60,000 in 2018. Why should we not contest?”
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