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Nagamarapalli gets ticket for Bidar

Gurupadappa Nagamarapalli

BIDAR: Supporters of the former Minister and Congress leader Gurupadappa Nagamarapalli are elated at the issue of party ticket to their leader to contest from Bidar.

The Congress announced Mr. Nagamarapalli as its official nominee for the Bidar seat on Friday.

President of the district unit of the Congress V.K. Patil told The Hindu that Mr. Nagamarapalli had been cleared for the Bidar seat and he had been given ‘B’ Form.

There was a tough competition between Mr. Nagamarapalli and district unit general secretary Raheem Khan for the party ticket. Minority community leaders and Mr. Nagamarapalli did not evince interest in contesting from Bidar South. They were firm on contesting from Bidar. The party leaders tried their best to convince one of them to settle for Bidar South, but in vain. Eventually, the party ticket was given to Mr. Nagamarapalli.

Aurad has become a reserved constituency and this made Mr. Nagamarapalli to seek ticket for the Bidar seat. But some leaders from the minority community opposed his move and pressured the high command to field a person from the community in the Bidar segment.

After learning that he would be denied the party ticket, Mr. Nagamarapalli resigned from the primary membership of the party on Sunday and later withdrew it.

On hearing the news of issue of party ticket to Mr. Nagamarapalli, his supporters led by ZP member D.K. Siddaram gathered on the DCC Bank premises and burst crackers. Mr. Nagamarapalli is the chairman of Naranja Sahakara Sakkare Karkhane, Bidar, and of DCC Bank. He represented Aurad in the Assembly in 1985, 1989, 1994 and 2004. He lost the election in 1999.

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