{"id":3035,"date":"2023-04-12T11:02:22","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T05:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsunitedindia.com\/2023\/04\/12\/challengers-for-siddaramaiah-dk-shivakumar-in-bjps-1st-karnataka-list\/"},"modified":"2023-04-12T11:02:22","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T05:32:22","slug":"challengers-for-siddaramaiah-dk-shivakumar-in-bjps-1st-karnataka-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsunitedindia.com\/?p=3035","title":{"rendered":"Challengers For Siddaramaiah, DK Shivakumar In BJP&#8217;s 1st Karnataka List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" id=\"ins_storybody\"><!-- \n\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"sp-cn ins_storybody\" id=\"ins_storybody\">--><\/p>\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv\">\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv_cont\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Challengers For Siddaramaiah, DK Shivakumar In BJP's 1st Karnataka List\" alt=\"Challengers For Siddaramaiah, DK Shivakumar In BJP's 1st Karnataka List\" id=\"story_image_main\" src=\"https:\/\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2022-04\/ojil0u8o_basavaraj-bommai-jp-nadda-pti_625x300_07_April_22.jpg?im=FeatureCrop,algorithm=dnn,width=650,height=400\"\/><\/div>\n<p class=\"ins_instory_dv_caption sp_b\">Basavaraj Bommai will contest from his Shiggaon constituency. (file)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><b class=\"place_cont\">New Delhi: <\/b><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe BJP on Tuesday announced 189 candidates in its first list for next month&#8217;s Karnataka state elections. A second list is expected soon for the elections to the 224-seat assembly scheduled on May 10. \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"cheat__ttl\">Following are the top highlights from the BJP candidates list:<\/h2>\n<div class=\"cheat-wrp\">\n<ol>\n<li>\n<p>Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai will contest from his Shiggaon constituency.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>BY Vijayendra, former Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa&#8217;s son, will contest from his father&#8217;s Shikaripura seat.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>V Somanna to contest against Congress&#8217; Siddaramaiah from Varuna.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>R Ashok will contest from Kanakpura against Congress&#8217; DK Shivakumar; Mr Ashok will contest from two seats.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>BJP National General Secretary CT Ravi will contest from Chikkamagaluru<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>State Minister B Sriramulu to contest from Bellary Rural seat.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Key BJP leaders, Ramesh Jarkiholi and Govind M Karjol, will contest from Gokak and Mudhol, respectively.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>There are 52 fresh candidates among the 189 names announced today.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>As many as 32 candidates are Other Backward Classes (OBC); 30 are Scheduled Castes (SC).<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Nine candidates are doctors, five lawyers and two retired bureaucrats. There are eight women in the first list.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span class=\"cmt_btnOut\"><span class=\"cmt_btn\"><a class=\"btn_bm cmt-ac cmt-dn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/karnataka-news\/javascript:void(0);\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"ndtv-cmnt-cnt\" style=\"display:none;\"\/><span class=\"ndtv-cmnt-txt\">Post a comment <\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/karnataka-news\/karnataka-polls-top-10-highlights-from-bjps-first-list-for-karnataka-3939921\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Basavaraj Bommai will contest from his Shiggaon constituency. (file) New Delhi: The BJP on Tuesday announced 189 candidates in its first list for next month&#8217;s Karnataka state elections. A second list is expected soon for the elections to the 224-seat assembly scheduled on May 10. Following are the top highlights from the BJP candidates list:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[57,56,66,55,53,54,58,63,52,61,60,59,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-business","category-crime","category-dharma","category-e-paper","category-education","category-entertainment","category-health","category-international","category-lifestyle","category-national","category-politics","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsunitedindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsunitedindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsunitedindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsunitedindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsunitedindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsunitedindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsunitedindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsunitedindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsunitedindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsunitedindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}