The Hindu : Karnataka / Bangalore News : Ullal bypoll: Sidhu, Sushma may be roped in for campaigning

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Ullal bypoll: Sidhu, Sushma may be roped in for campaigning

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BANGALORE: The State unit of the BJP is planning to request former cricketer-turned-MP Navjot Singh Sidhu, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, and former Union Minister Sushma Swaraj to campaign for the party candidate in the Ullal byelection.

Party spokesperson Suresh Kumar told The Hindu on Thursday that there was a demand from party workers and local leaders to request the above leaders to campaign for the party. The party State unit would soon make a request to these leaders to tour the Ullal Assembly constituency, he said.

At the same time, the party would give importance to the door-to-door campaigning by the local leaders, he noted. Already, a core team comprising party State president D. V. Sadananda Gowda and Dakshina Kannada district in-charge minister B. Nagaraj Shetty among others had been formed to monitor the campaign for the bypoll.

While most of its prominent leaders are camping in Ullal, some of the BJP leaders are holding meetings in different divisional headquarters of the State to prepare the party organisation for the elections to the urban local bodies (ULBs). Though the elections to ULBs have been put off, the BJP is not ready to take a chance and is trying to prepare the party organisation for these polls. A divisional-level poll meeting was held in Gulbarga on Thursday in which the party functionaries and two general secretaries reviewed the preparedness of the party district units, coming under the Gulbarga division, to face the ULBs polls. Such a meeting regarding municipal polls is scheduled in Bangalore on May 25.

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