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Bengaluru: Karnataka Congress Thursday officially announced C.P. Yogeeshwara as its candidate for the upcoming Channapatna bypolls, hours after the 57-year-old decided to jump ship from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)..
Ever since Shivakumars brother, D.K. Suresh, lost the Bengaluru Rural seat in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, the state Congress president has been itching to get back against old rivals Deve Gowda and Kumaraswamy, Congress leaders and analysts said...
But poaching Yogeeshwara from the BJP, they added, was also a sign of panic from Shivakumar because it makes it seem like he is not confident of winning the bypolls on his strength.. This seems to be a sign that he has not yet got it (his strength) back, Narendar Pani, a Bengaluru-based political analyst and faculty at the National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), told ThePrint...
But he has not been able to win in other neighbouring seats at least until the 2023 assembly elections when the Congress candidate, H.A. Iqbal Hussain, defeated Kumaraswamys son, Nikhilfurther fueling tensions between two of Karnatakas biggest contemporary political leaders...
In the 2023 assembly elections, Kumaraswamy won from Channapatna, securing 96,592 votes (48.83 percent vote share), as against then BJP candidate Yogeeshwara, who received 80,677 votes (40.79 percent), according to ECI data...
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