The Hindu : Sangliana files nomination for Bangalore North seat

Online edition of India's National Newspaper
Tuesday, Mar 30, 2004

Karnataka

Karnataka

Sangliana files nomination for Bangalore North seat

By Our Special Correspondent

BANGALORE, MARCH 29. The Social Welfare Minister, A. Krishnappa; the former Union Minister and State BJP President, H.N. Ananth Kumar; and the former Director General of Police, H.T. Sangliana, today filed their nomination papers for the elections.

Mr. Krishnappa filed his nomination seeking re-election from the Varthur Assembly constituency. Mr. Krishnappa, along with a large number of his supporters, submitted his papers at the Krishnarajapuram taluk office. He is the first Minister in the Krishna Government to file the nomination and that too before the announcement of the official list of party candidates. The Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) had warned against the filing of nomination papers before the list of candidates was cleared by the party High Command.

Traffic on Old Madras Road was disrupted for some time in the morning when the supporters of the Minister arrived at the taluk office.

Mangala Krishnappa, wife of the Minister, and K.B. Munivenkatareddy, MLC, were among those who accompanied Mr. Krishnappa.

Mr. Ananth Kumar filed his nomination papers for the Bangalore South Lok Sabha constituency, amid fanfare. Mr. Kumar is seeking election for the fourth time from the constituency.

Accompanied by his wife, Tejaswini, Mr. Kumar first offered prayers at the Doddaganapathi Temple in Basavanagudi and the Ganesha Temple in Malleswaram. Mr. Kumar also visited Keshava Kripa, the headquarters of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) at Kempegowdanagar before filing his nomination papers at the Bangalore Mahanagara Palike office. Earlier, he garlanded the statue of the founder of Bangalore, Kempe Gowda.

The Union Law Minister and in-charge of BJP affairs in Karnataka, Arun Jaitley, who was part of the entourage, said that the BJP would create history in Karnataka. To a cheering group of supporters, Mr. Jaitley said the BJP would have its first Government in southern India in Karnataka and exuded confidence that both the seats in Bangalore, North and South, would go to the BJP. "Vajpayee wave is sweeping Karnataka," he said and added that the BJP would win the Lok Sabha elections and Assembly elections in the State and the victory would be beyond the party's expectations.

Mr. Kumar said the "misrule of the Congress Government" would ensure the defeat of the party. "Besides the anti-incumbency wave the Congress is facing here, the pro-Vajpayee wave will help the BJP significantly," he added.

Mr. Sangliana filed his nomination papers for the Bangalore North Lok Sabha constituency as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate.

Mr. Sangliana came along with his family and a large number of BJP workers to the Bangalore Urban Deputy Commissioner's office and filed the papers. The Deputy Commissioner and Returning Officer, G.S. Narayana Swamy, received the papers.

Mr. Sangliana later told presspersons that the National Democratic Alliance led by the BJP would secure a majority in the next Lok Sabha and form the Government again. His main opponent was the senior Congress leader and former Union Railway Minister, C.K. Jaffer Sharief. He would raise national issues and highlight the achievements of the Vajpayee Government during his campaign, Mr. Sangliana said.

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