Bengaluru, Jun 8: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday fielded Eranna Kadadi and Ashok Gasti as it's candidates for the June 19 Rajya Sabha elections from Karnataka, ignoring the recommendations of the state BJP unit.
The state unit had recommended the names of Prabhakar Kore, Ramesh Katti and Prakash Shetty.
The names of the two candidates were announced in a party statement in Delhi.
The election is scheduled on June 19 to fill four Rajya Sabha seats from Karnataka, represented by Rajeev Gowda and BK Hariprasad of Congress, Prabhakar Kore of BJP and D Kupendra Reddy of JD(S) that will fall vacant on June 25, with their retirement.
June 9 is the last date for filing nominations. Party sources said both Kadadi and Gasti come from an RSS background.
Kadadi hails from Belagavi, while Gasti is a resident of Raichur.
The 54-year-old Eranna Kadadi started his active political career in 1989 and unsuccessfully contested the assembly election from Arambhavi constituency in 1994 on a BJP ticket.
He had also served as the Belagavi district Panchayat president in 2010.
Ashok Gasti is a lawyer by profession and former general secretary of the BJP's OBC Cell.
He is the former chairperson of the Backward Class Development Corporation.
The vehicle, worth Rs. 35 lakh, was flagged off by Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu earlier on Monday.
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In some point of view he did good work.. but our so called nationalist people will forget it soon and start blaming Muslims same way they use to do now! So he should have donated it or that money to poor people atleast they will pray for him.. May Allah give him Hidaya to help more those who are needy!
good people always do good work.
he may be out of the mind, simply wasted money instead he would have fed lots of poor children.
will donate gold chadar soon to mosque.
Real India soul, bend the knee and big solute to him.
wonderful, Patriotic person lord thirumala bless him.
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