Panel exerts pressure on Cong to field Muslim candidate from Dakshina Kannada LS seat in 2019

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October 24, 2018

Mangaluru, Oct 24: A meeting of the Muslim Central Committee here on Wednesday resolved to urge the Congress to field a Muslim candidate from Dakshina Kannada parliamentary constituency in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.

It decided to constitute an action committee to submit a memorandum to the Congress.

It decided to rope in Ministers, such as U.T Khader, B.Z. Zameer Ahmed Khan, to prevail upon the Congress on this issue.

The meeting decided that if the Congress denied ticket to a Muslim candidate, the committee should decide on the next course of action. K.S. Mohammed Masood, president of the central committee and former MLC, presided over the meeting.

Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Masood said that there is a need to create an awareness on the need to field a Muslim candidate from the constituency as none from the community have been fielded so far.

He said that if the “strong secular party” did not declare by next month that a Muslim candidate would be fielded, a meeting to create awareness would be conducted in the city during December.

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BJP fields Kishore Kumar Puttur from DK-Udupi Local Authorities’ Constituency

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October 1,2024

The BJP has selected Kishore Kumar Puttur as its candidate for the bypoll to Karnataka Legislative Council from Dakshina Kannada and Udupi Local Authorities’ Constituency. The by-election will be held on October 21.

Kishore Kumar is presently serving as the General Secretary of Dakshina Kannada BJP unit. He had served as vice president of State BJP Yuva Morcha from 2014 to 2016.

The by-election will be held to the seat vacated by Kota Srinivas Poojary of the BJP who has been elected as the Lok Sabha member from Udupi-Chikmagaluru Lok Sabha constituency. The vacancy was created on June 15, 2024 following Poojary’s resignation to the Council. His term in the council was till January, 2028.

In the last Council election held for the dual member constituency in December 2021, Poojary had secured 3,672 votes while the Congress candidate Manjunath Bhandary had secured 2079 votes. Poojary and Bhandary had secured required votes from the first preferential votes and had won the election.

There were several aspirants for the BJP ticket including former MP Nalin Kumar Kateel, DK BJP president Satish Kumpala, Mangaluru divisional in-charge Uday Kumar Shetty, former minister Pramod Madhwaraj and former Udupi district BJP president Kuilady Suresh Nayak.

The Congress is yet to announce its candidate for the election. KPCC working president Manjunath Bhandary in a recent press meet in Mangaluru had said that an opportunity will be given to congress leaders from Udupi district to contest by-election.

The Dakshina Kannada and Udupi Local Authorities’ Constituency has 6037 voters including 3551 from Dakshina Kannada comprising eight MLAs, one MP. The last date for filing nomination is October 3 and the last date for withdrawal of nomination is October 7. The counting will be held on October 24.

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