Newsroom, Oct 8: The Janata Dal (Secular) is likely to contest in the Shivamogga and Mandya parliamentary bypolls while the Congress will take Ballari in the next month’s bypolls to three Lok Sabha seats in Karnataka, highly placed sources said.
JD(S) supremo H.D. Deve Gowda said all decisions pertaining to the bypolls have been shared with the Congress and the candidate for Mandya would be announced shortly.
The by-elections had been necessitated after BJPs B S Yeddyurappa (Shivamogga) and B Sriramalu (Ballari), and C S Puttaraju of JD(S) (Mandya) resigned as MPs on their election to the assembly in May last.
In fact Election Commission's decision to hold byelections to three Lok Sabha seats in Karnataka on November 3 has come as a surprise to most political parties who questioned the necessity for the exercise in view of the general elections due early next year.
Pointing to the short term of about five months those elected in the bypoll would have, Congress and BJP said the Lok Sbaha elections would be held within five months.
The bypolls to Shivamogga, Ballari and Mandya Lok Sabha seats and Ramanagara and Jamkhandi assembly constituencies will take place on November 3. The counting of votes will be on November 6.
Bypolls to Jamkhandi assembly seat was necessitated following the death of Congress MLA Siddu Nyamagouda, while Ramanagara fell vacant as chief minister H D Kumaraswamy gave up the seat and retained Channapatna, the other segment won by him in the assembly elections.
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