In BJP's Karnataka Lok Sabha Poll Prep, Big Changes Likely: Sources
NDTV
Broadly speaking the changes are in line with the BJP's (unwritten) rule - younger is better and three-time winners or above should give way to someone else (to avoid anti-incumbency).
The Bharatiya Janata Party is likely to field a host of new faces in Karnataka for the April/May Lok Sabha election, party sources told NDTV Friday, indicating new candidates could be offered to voters in as many as 11 of the 25 seats the party currently holds.
Sources said the decision was taken after several sitting MPs expressed a desire to not contest this election. It is, however, also being seen as an attempt to ward off possible anti-incumbency, particularly in a state the party has performed well in over the past two general elections; in 2014 the BJP won 17 seats (the Congress got nine) and, in 2019, it went eight better and cornered over 51 per cent of the total votes.
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