Political fate of Ministers’ children, former CMs, Union Minister to be decided today
The Hindu
Counting of votes in Kalyana and Kittur Karnataka districts for Lok Sabha elections with key leaders in fray.
As the countdown for the counting of votes has begun, all arrangements have been made by respective district administrations in the districts of Kalyana Karnataka and Kittur Karnataka for counting of votes polled in the Lok Sabha elections.
The results are of great importance for the leaders of both the BJP and the Congress from these two regions as their political future depends on it.
Two former Chief Ministers, namely Jagadish Shettar and Basavaraj Bommai, are testing their fortunes in the Lok Sabha elections for the first time, while Union Minister Pralhad Joshi is hoping for a fifth win in a row.
Several of the Ministers in the Congress government in Karnataka from the region are anxious as their wards and relatives are in the fray.
Priyanka Jarkiholi (Chikkodi), Mrinal Hebbalkar (Belagavi), Samyukta Patil (Bagalkot) and Sagar Khandre (Bidar), children of Ministers Satish Jarkiholi, Laxmi Hebbalkar, Shivanand Patil and Eshwar Khandre, respectively, are contesting the elections for the first time. The answer to the question, will they be able to spring any surprises, is awaited.
Radhakrishna Doddamani, son-in-law of All India Congress Committee president Mallikarjun Kharge, is in the fray in Kalaburagi, where Mr. Kharge was defeated in 2019.
This apart, in Davangere of Central Karnataka, Congress veteran and former Minister Shamanur Shivashankarappa’s daughter-in-law and wife of Minister S.S. Mallikarjun, Prabha Mallikarjun, has contested against Gayatri Siddeshwar, wife of former Union Minister G.M. Siddeshwar.
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