Will wait for Cong ticket till last moment, says Sumalatha; film personalities unlikely to rally behind her

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March 8, 2019

Mysuru, Mar 8: Cine actor Sumalatha, wife of former Mandya Parliament member and union minister Ambareesh said on Friday that she will wait for a Congress ticket be allotted to her till the last moment and if not, she may contest as an independent candidate from the Lok Sabha segment in the coming election.

Janata Dal(S), which had a sitting member from the segment in the Vokkaliga stronghold has already announced that chief minister Kumaraswamy’s son Nikhil Kumaraswamy would contest the seat under understanding with coalition partner Congress party.

Sumalatha Ambareesh, who is getting ready for the Lok Sabha elections visited Chamundeshwari temple atop Chamundi Hills here on Friday morning and offered special prayers.

Film personalities unlikely to rally behind Sumalatha

Film personalities in Karnataka, who were once very close to former Karnataka Minister late M H Ambhareesh , are not keen to rally behind his widow Sumalatha, if she chose to contest the coming Lok Sabha elections from Mandya.

According to sources, Multi-lingual star, Sudeep, had made it a point not to campaign for Sumalatha despite Ambharish was one of his close family friend.

With Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy expressing his desire to field his son and film actor Nikhil from Mandya in the General election, some of the film personalities were in dilemma to extend their support to Sumalatha to avoid any kind of antognisng of the Chief minister.

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DK-Udupi local authorities' constituency by-poll: 4 candidates – Cong, BJP, SDPI, Ind – in fray

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October 8,2024

Mangaluru: The by-election to the legislative council from the Dakshina Kannada and Udupi local authorities' constituency will be a contest among four candidates. An independent candidate, Muhammed Riyaz, has withdrawn his nomination on Monday, the last day for withdrawal.

Deputy commissioner Mullai Muhilan MP stated that candidates Kishore BR (BJP), Raju Poojary (Congress), Anwar Sadat S (SDPI), and Dinakar Ullal (independent) will be in the fray.

Polling will be held at 392 booths in Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts between 8am and 4pm on Oct 21.

A total of 6,032 voters from Dakshina Kannada and Udupi are eligible to vote. While there will be 234 polling booths in Dakshina Kannada, Udupi will have 158 stations. Gram panchayat members, corporators of the Mangaluru City Corporation, members of city municipal councils, town municipal councils, town panchayats, MLAs, MLCs, and Lok Sabha members are eligible to vote.

Election observer of the Election Commission of India (ECI), Pankaj Kumar Pandey, reviewed the poll preparations at the deputy commissioner's office on Monday. He issued directions to officials regarding arrangements to be made during the election and counting of votes.

The deputy commissioner stated that out of 6,032 voters, 3,127 are women and 2,905 are men. He said the counting of votes will be held at St Aloysius PU College in the city on Oct 24.

Udupi deputy commissioner Vidya Kumari K, city police commissioner Anupam Agrawal, Dakshina Kannada ZP CEO Anandh K, Dakshina Kannada SP Yathish N, Udupi SP Arun K, and additional deputy commissioners Santhosh Kumar G and Mamatha Devi were present.

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