The Hindu : JD (S) to finalise candidates in Bellary before March 22

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Tuesday, Mar 16, 2004

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JD (S) to finalise candidates in Bellary before March 22

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By Our Staff Correspondent

BELLARY, MARCH 15. The Janata Dal (S) is likely to finalise and announce the list of its candidates to be fielded in the elections to the Lok Sabha and Assembly in Bellary district before March 22, according to B. Shivarama Reddy, president of the district unit of the party.

Speaking to presspersons here on Monday, he said there were three aspirants for the party ticket from the Lok Sabha seat while 47 applications had been received for nine constituencies — eight in the district and Harpanahalli, which is now part of Davangere district, but forms part of the Bellary Lok Sabha constituency.

Y. Nettakallappa, who contested unsuccessfully in the 1991 and 1998 elections, is among the three applicants from the Lok Sabha constituency. Allum Chennappa, a mine owner, who hails from the well-known Allum family in the district and is the brother of Allum Veerbhadrappa, Minister for Water Resources (Krishna Basin), and Bhavi Bettappa, former zilla panchayat president, are the other two. For the Assembly elections, M.P. Prakash, MLC, Mr. Shivarama Reddy, N.M. Nabi, former Minister, N. Suryanarayana Reddy, granite exporter, Ratan Singh, former MLA, both of whom joined the party recently from the BJP and Congress, respectively, Gulagi Nagaraj, former zilla panchayat president, Bheemaneni Kondaiah, N.T. Bommanna, T.M. Chandrashekariah, are among the 47 applicants. Mr. Shivarama Reddy said that the senior party leaders, who would meet on March 18, would finalise the list. The selection of candidates would be done based on their chances of winning, contribution towards growth of the party and social justice.

He said the party was well organised in the district and expressed the confidence that it would win six seats. He said the failure of the Government and the Ministers representing the district to take steps to tackle the drought and their inability to solve the drinking water problem, among others, were issues advantageous to the party in the elections. The State party leadership had been requested to include the major problems facing the district and steps to resolve them in its election manifesto, he said.

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