Bengaluru, Jan 4: Eyeing big time support for Congress from people of backward Hyderabad-Karnataka, after the party-led UPA government successfully moved the amendment to Article 371(J) to empower the people this region with special status and larger inflows of l funds, AICC President Rahul Gandhi is likely to contest from Karnataka in 2019 General Elections.
According to highly placed party sources a party delegation from the Bidar District Congress have plans to meet the Mr Gandhi and appeal him to contest from the Bidar seat, which has elected large number of Congress MLAs in the 2018 Assembly elections.
Congress had won five Assembly segments out of eight in this Lok Sabha seat, with BJP 2 and JD(S) winning the remaining.
In the recent cabinet reshuffle, the number of MLAs getting cabinet berths in this northernmost district of Karnataka has risen to three, while two other MLAs are nominated to two state-owned Boards with minister of state ranks.
“The prominence given to Bidar district, in the cabinet formation and the nominations to the Boards and Corporations would indicate the possibilities of the Congress to field Rahul Gandhi as its candidate for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections” a Congress leader from Bidar said.
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