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Bengaluru:The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has left out firebrand youth leader Tejasvi Surya out of its star campaigners list for the Lok Sabha election in Karnataka...
While a section of BJP leaders ThePrint spoke to contend that the party wants Surya to focus on Bengaluru South where he was renominated as party candidate, the fact is he was left out of the list of star campaigners in the last Assembly election, too...
The Congress has fielded Sowmya Reddy, a former legislator and daughter of Karnatakas transport minister, Ramalinga Reddy in Bengaluru South...
BJP sources also pointed out that Surya is considered close to BJP national general secretary (organisation) B.L. Santhosh whose arch-rival and former Karnataka chief minister B.S.Yediyurappa is calling the shots in Karnataka...
Maybe, they (BJP) wants Tejasvi Surya to focus on his constituency, Shastri, a Bengaluru-based political analyst, told ThePrint...
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