Legislative Council polls: 20 withdraw nomination papers
The Hindu
As many as 20 candidates, including one from the Janata Dal (Secular), withdrew from the fray on Friday, the last date for withdrawing nomination for the elections to 25 seats of the Legislative Counc
As many as 20 candidates, including one from the Janata Dal (Secular), withdrew from the fray on Friday, the last date for withdrawing nomination for the elections to 25 seats of the Legislative Council from the Local Authorities’ constituencies.
Of the total candidates who withdrew their nomination papers, 19 were Independents. In Kodagu, the Janata Dal (Secular) candidate, Isaak Khan, withdrew his papers, leaving the Congress and the BJP to slug it out in a direct contest. He told reporters that party leaders H.D. Kumaraswamy and MP Prajwal Revanna directed him to withdraw from the fray.
Senior BJP leader and former Telangana Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan on Saturday (November 23, 2024) said the landslide victory of the Mahayuti alliance in the Maharashtra Assembly election was historic, and that it reflected people’s mindset across the country. She added that the DMK would be unseated from power in the 2026 Assembly election in Tamil Nadu and that the BJP would be the reason for it.