Dear Editor,
Publicizing its first list of 189 campaigners for the Karnataka Assembly choices the BJP contended as numerous as 52 new campaigners and retained 90 sitting MLAs including 11 from the Congress and JDS who crossed over in 2019 to help it wrest power from the coalition. In all, the first list has 8 women, 32 OBC candidates, 30 from SC communities, and 16 from ST communities. Profession and education-wise, it has 9 doctors, 5 advocates, 3 academics, and 31 postgraduates appears to be hotchpotch.However not even a single ticket given to Muslim candidate clearly indicates BJP is against Muslims.The BJP veteran MLAs who have been dropped from the list include Ramadas , Raghupathy Bhat Anil Benake , S Angara from Sullia, rebel MLA Anand Singh ,Halady Srinivas Shetty Laxman Savadi, Eshwarappa , Jagadish Goolihatti Shekar seems to be a shocking.
VijayKumar H K
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Raichur, Karnataka
Environmentalist
