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30 Congress candidates may be renominated

BANGALORE: Nearly 30 Congress members of the dissolved Legislative Assembly might find it easy to get the approval of the high-level Coordination Committee (CC) of the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) which is scheduled to meet here on Wednesday to scrutinise applications filed by aspirants of the party ticket for the Assembly elections.

The meeting to be chaired by the Union Minister of State and in charge of party affairs in Karnataka and head of the Coordination Committee, Prithviraj Chavan, is likely to discuss the possibility of re-nominating 30 of the 65 former MLAs whose constituencies have remained intact even after the delimitation exercise that was implemented in the State recently. The first list of the party candidates for the May 10 elections might be announced by April 20.

Sources in the KPCC said that in 2004 the names of all the 124 former MLAs were approved in the first meeting of the election committee of the KPCC as per the tradition of the party.

Of them, 80 leaders, including 30 Ministers in the S.M. Krishna Ministry, were defeated.

With the whirlwind five-day “Discover India” tour by the All India Congress Committee General Secretary and MP Rahul Gandhi in the State, there seems to be a perception among some middle-rung leaders of the party that that he had indicated his intention of fielding more youth leaders in the elections. The Congress top brass, this time, might go against the Congress tradition and induct young faces in the electoral contest.

All the other 194 Assembly constituencies have seen either addition or subtraction of areas and in some, large chunks of voters have shifted to neighbouring or altogether new constituencies, including the reserved ones.

In Bangalore city, Jayanagar, Malleswaram and Gandhinagar have seen such changes leading to competition among the party workers from the new areas for party ticket.

From the new Mahadevapura reserved constituency, 40 workers have applied for party ticket.

In the Anekal and Attibele reserved constituencies, 26 and 54 aspirants have sought ticket, which spoke of the tough competition among them, the sources said. Women workers might hear some good news as the party is likely to recommend at least 15 names as against six in the last elections, out of whom only one was elected.

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