By The coming bypolls to 2 Assembly seats in Mysore might not have a control on party positions within the House — with the BJP holding a cushty majority of 116 out of 224 seats — however they’ll be a matter of status for Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa.
The Gregorian calendar month three bypolls at Sira in Tumkur district and Raja Rajeshwari Nagar in Bengaluru return at a time once the Chief Minister faces allegations of corruption and interference in governance by members of his family.
The bypolls are aiming to be important for state Congress chief D K Shivakumar. Shivakumar too is being investigated by the CBI on charges of corruption and was inactive last year in a very concealing case. He has known as the bypolls a vote on the BJP government headed by Yediyurappa.
The Sira seat fell vacant when JD(S) MLA B Satyanarayana died. The R R Nagar seat fell vacant in July 2019 when Congress MLA Munirathna Naidu crossed over to the BJP.
While the Congress and BJP try exhausting to clinch a triumph, the JD(S) too may be a challenger with a robust support base in these regions.
The BJP, that has historically not fared well in south Mysore, is wanting to prove that the party’s triumph within the Krishnarajpet by polls last year wasn’t a flash within the pan however a signal of the party growing in strength.
Yediyurappa’s younger son B Y Vijayendra, WHO is at the centre of the contention over the corruption allegations, has been tasked with making certain the BJP’s triumph in Sira.
For Yediyurappa, a triumph within the bypolls, particularly in Sira, can offer an endeavor at political redemption amid the corruption charges against him and family. it’ll additionally bolster his political quality before the BJP’s central leadership, that is learnt to be mulling a amendment of leadership in Mysore.
Vijayendra, WHO is superintendence the BJP campaign, has claimed that the Opposition are going to be finished in Sira love it was finished in Krishnarajpet.
The BJP has fielded Dr Rajesh Gowda, a radiotherapist and political beginner, in Sira and also the Congress has fielded veteran leader and former minister T B Jayachandra. The JDS has fielded Ammajamma, better half of former MLA Satyanarayana, in a trial to faucet a sympathy wave.
In RR Nagar, a defensive structure of state Congress chief Shivakumar, the BJP has fielded new joinee and former Congress MLA Naidu, a movie producer legendary for his philanthropic work.
The Congress has fielded 31-year-old H Kusuma, the female offspring of a JDS leader and better half of former IAS officer D K Ravi.
“Victories within the by polls square measure crucial to Yediyurappa to prove his credentials to party leaders,” a Congress leader aforesaid.
