Karnataka polls: JDS announces candidates for 126 seats. Here’s the list

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February 18, 2018

The Janata Dal (Secular) took everyone by surprise on Saturday, Feb 17, by announcing candidates for 126 Assembly seats even before the election schedule for Karnataka is announced by the poll panel. 

The list was made public on the same day that the JD(S) supremo H D Deve Gowda addressed an election rally with BSP chief Mayawati in Bengaluru, indicating that a seat sharing formula has been worked out.

The first list, however, features names only from the JD(S). Its alliance partners BSP and NCP are likely to be accommodated in the second list as the JD(S) will only contest from 58 of the remaining 98 seats. Karnataka Assembly has 224 seats.

Many of the sitting MLAs figure in the list of 126 candidates, including N H Konareddi (Navalgund), Madhu Bangarappa (Soraba), YSV Datta (Kadur). JD(S) State President H D Kumaraswamy (Ramanagar) and his brother H D Revanna (Holenarasipura) and MLC C R Manohar also figure in the first list.

Prominent among those who switched over to the JD(S) from other parties recently and have managed to get the ticket include former ministers Anand Asnotikar (Karwar), H Vishwanath (Hunsur) and Ravindra Srikantaiah (Srirangapatna).

Former vice-chancellor of University of Mysore K S Rangappa, who joined the JD(S) recently, has been given the ticket for Chamaraja seat. Sitting Mandya MP C S Puttaraju will contest from Melkote. Only four women figure in the first list. 

All 126 candidates were administered oath by senior MLC Basavaraj Horatti.

1.    Girish Buthale (Athani)
2.    Shivanagouda Patil (Belagavi Rural)
3.    Shankar Malagi (Bailahongal)
4.    Jadav (Ramadurga)
5.    Basvaraju Kannur (Terdal)
6.    Toufil (Jhamakandi)
7.    Hanumantha Mavinamarad (Badami)
8.    A S Patil Nadahalli (Muddebihal)
9.    Appugouda Patil (Basavana Bagevadi)
10.    Devanand Chouhan (Nagathana)
11.    B D Patil (Indi)
12.    Magoli (Sindhagi)
13.    Kedaralingaiah (Jevargi)
14.    Raju Krishna Naik (Surpur)
15.    Amin Reddy (Shahapur)
16.    A C Kadalur (Yadgir)
17.    Naganagouda (Gurmitkal)
18.    Sushil Bai B (Chincholli)
19.    Basavaraj Diggavi (Gulbarga South)
20.    Nasir Usthad (Gulbarga North)
21.    Suryakanth Kurali (Aland)
22.    Nasir Hussain (Humanabad)
23.    Bandappa Kashampur (Bidar South)
24.    Raja Venkatappa Naik (Manvi)
25.    Venkatesh Poojary (Devadurga)
26.    Siddu Bandi (Lingasagur)
27.    Raja Somanath Naik (Maski)
28.    Manjula D M Ravi (Kanakagiri)
29.    Veerannagouda Police Patil (Yalaburgi)
30.    Neeravari (Kushtagi)
31.    Nadagouda (Sindhanur)
32.    H N Konareddy (Navalgund)
33.    Mallikarjuna Akki (Kundagol)
34.    Rajanna Koravi (Hubballi Dharwad Central)
35.    Anand Asnotikar (Karwar)
36.    Pradeep Naik (Kumta)
37.    Nayathulla (Bhakal)
38.    Shashibhushan Hegde (Sirsi)
39.    Ravindra Naik (Yellapura)
40.    Sanjay Dange (Haveri)
41.    Siddappa (Hirekeru)
42.    Sripad Sahukar (Ranebennur)
43.    Vasanth Kumar (Sandur)
44.    N T Bommanna (Kudligi)
45.    Yethinhatti Goudaru (Molakalmuru)
46.    Raveesh (Challakere)
47.    K C Veerendra (Chitradurga)
48.    Yeshodar (Hiriyuru)
49.    Srinivas Gadige (Holalkere)
50.    H S Shivashankar (Harihara)
51.    Hudigere Ramesh (Channagiri)
52.    Shila Naik (Mayakonda)
53.    Sharada Purya Naik (Shimoga Rural)
54.    Appaji Gowda (Bhadravathi)
55.    Niranjan (Shivamogga)
56.    Manjunatha Gowda (Thirthahalli)
57.    Baligar (Shikaripura)
58.    Madhu Bangarappa (Soraba)
59.    Ravi Shetty (Byaindur)
60.    Bidthi Gangadhar Bhandari (Udupi)
61.    Venkatesh Govinde Gowda (Sringeri)
62.    B B Ningaiah (Mudigere)
63.    Harish (Chikkamagalur)
64.    YSV Datta (Kadur)
65.    Suresh Babu (Chikkanayakanahalli)
66.    Lokeshwar (Tiptur)
67.    M T Krishnappa (Turuvekere)
68.    D Nagarajaiah (Kunigal)
69.    Govindaraju (Tumkur - City)
70.    D C Gowrishankar (Tumkur - Rural)
71.    Sudhakar Lal (Koratagere)
72.    Srinivas (Gubbi)
73.    Sathyanarayan (Sira)
74.    Thimarayyappa (Pavagada)
75.    Veerabhadraiah (Madhugiri)
76.    Bacche Gowda (Chikkaballapura)
77.    Rajanna (Siddlaghatta)
78.    J K Krishna Reddy (Chintamani)
79.    C R Manohar (Bagepalli)
80.    Venkatashiva Reddy (Srinivasapura)
81.    Baktavatsalam (KGF)
82.    Mallesh (Bangarpet)
83.    Manjunath Gowda (Malur)
84.    Gopal (K R Pura)
85.    Chandranna (Bytarayanapura)
86.    Javarai Gowda (Yeshwanthpur)
87.    Manjunath (Dasarahalli)
88.    Gopaliah (Mahalakshmi Layout)
89.    Hanumanthegowda (Hebbal)
90.    Anwar Sharief (Sarvajnanagar)
91.    Narayanaswamy (Gandhinagar)
92.    Bage Gowda (Basavangudi)
93.    Gopal (Padmanabhanagar)
94.    Devadas (BTM Layout)
95.    Pillamunishamappa (Devanahalli)
96.    Mune Gowda (Doddaballapura)
97.    Srinivasa Murthy (Nelamangala)
98.    H D Kumaraswamy (Ramanagar)
99.    Manju (Magadi)
100.    Annadani (Malavalli)
101.    D C Thammanna (Maddur)
102.    C S Puttaraju (Malkote)
103.    Ravindra Srikantaiah (Srirangapatna)
104.    Narayana Gowda (K R Pet)
105.    Suresh Gowda (Nagamangala)
106.    C N Balakrishna (Sharavanbelagola)
107.    Shivalinge Gowda (Arasikere)
108.    H S Prakash (Hassan)
109.    H D Revanna (Holenarasipura)
110.    A T Ramaswamy (Arkalgud)
111.    H K Kumaraswamy (Sakaleshpura)
112.    Lingesh (Beluru)
113.    Jeevijaya (Madikeri)
114.    Sanketh Puvaiah (Virajpet)
115.    Mahadeva (Periyapatna)
116.    Sa Ra Mahesh (K R Nagar)
117.    H Vishwanth (Hunsur)
118.    G T Deve Gowda (Chamundeshwari)
119.    K S Rangappa (Chamaraja)
120.    Abdula (Narasimhaja)
121.    Mallesh (Krishnaraja)
122.    Abhishek (Varuna)
123.    Chikkana (H D Kote)
124.    Samruddhi Manjunath (Mulbagal)
125.    Ashwin Kumar (T Narasipura)
126.    K R Ramesh (Haliyal)

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Akash
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Monday, 19 Feb 2018

There are so many wrong spellings, do correct it.

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February 29,2020

Bengaluru, Feb 29: A Lingayat seer on Friday threatened to get 10 BJP MLAs to quit if Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa does not make MLA Dattatreya Patil Revoor a minister soon.

"If Yediyurappa does not make BJP's Gulbarga South MLA Dattatreya Patil Revoor a minister, I will get 10 ruling party legislators resign and reduce the government to a minority, forcing the Chief Minister to resign," said Srishaila Saranga mutt seer Deshikendra Swami at a meeting in Kalaburagi on Friday.

Addressing a gathering of the Lingayat community, to which Revoor belongs, the seer said although he wanted Yediyurappa to complete the remaining 3-year term in office and the BJP to return to power after the next elections, it would be difficult for Yediyurappa to continue if Revoor is not made a minister.

"Yediyurappa will be in office for the next three years if he makes Revoor minister. If not, I will ask him (latter) also to resign, as does not need to be in politics anymore because he has a house, many acres of agricultural land and is very rich," the seer told the gathering in Kannada.

In his nomination to contest in the May 2018 assembly elections, Revoor (37) declared in an affidavit Rs 17-crore assets, including immovable properties.

Wishing Yediyurappa to remain in office for the next three years and return as Chief Minister, the seer said if Yediyurappa is forced to quit, then the Lingayat community would not get an opportunity to have its leader as Chief Minister again for at least 30 years.

Yediyurappa, whose constituency is Shikaripura in Shivamogga district, is considered the tallest Lingayat leader of the politically powerful community, which accounts for 18% of the 6.5-crore state's population.

Though a dozen BJP legislators won from the erstwhile Hyderabad-Karnataka region in the May 2018 Assembly elections, only Prabhu Chauhan from the adjacent Bidar district was made minister for animal husbandry.

The Saranga mutt seer’s threat comes a month after Veerashaiva Lingayat Panchamasali seer Swami Vachananda, dared Yediyurappa to make 3 of the community legislators ministers ahead of the second cabinet expansion on February 6.

At a Lingayat gathering in the state's Davengere district on January 15, Vachananda told Yediyurappa to make party's Bilgi legislator Murgesh Nirani Minister, failing which the community would withdraw its support to the ruling party.

Hiryur is about 300km northwest of the southern state's capital Bengaluru.

Ticking off the young seer, a defiant Yediyurappa, however, threatened to walk out of the meeting if he was blackmailed for making Lingayat MLAs ministers.

"You cannot threaten me saying your sub-sect (Veera Shaiva) community would not support the BJP in the next assembly or Lok Saba elections, due in 2023 and 2024," retorted Yediyurappa, reasserting his status as the community's strongman in the state.

In the second cabinet expansion, only 10 newly elected legislators who defected from the Congress and the Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) were made ministers, leaving 6 posts vacant in the 34-member ministry.

In the first cabinet expansion on August 20, 2019, 17 party legislators were made ministers. Nirani and others, who were present on the dais, pacified Yediyurappa to take his seat and requested the seer to avoid making political speech on such occasions.

"The chief minister threatened to resign than succumb to pressures from religious or community followers," a party official told media.

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February 18,2020

Mangaluru, Feb 18: Customs at International Airport here have seized Rs 58.95 lakh worth gold in two incidents and arrested two smugglers, Customs Commissionerate said on Monday.

According to the department, two men have been arrested by the customs officials in two separate incidents last evening for attempting to smuggle gold into the country valuing over Rs. 58.95 Lakhs.

In the first incident, Muhammed Swalih Chappathodi, 22, hailing from Malappuram, Kerala who arrived from Dubai by Spice jet flight concealed capsules containing gold in paste form inside his rectum which upon purification resulted in the recovery of 797 gm of 24 karats valued at Rs.32,35,820.

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May 1,2020

Bengaluru, May 1: Karnataka has reported 11 new cases of coronavirus, taking the State's count to 576, informed the Health Department on Friday.

Out of the total COVID-19 cases found in the State, 235 people have been discharged and 22 people have died.

"11 new COVID-19 cases have been confirmed in Karnataka from April 30, 5 pm till noon today, taking the total number of cases to 576, which includes 22 deaths and 235 discharges," said the State government COVID-19 bulletin.

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