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KARNATAKA STATE ELECTIONS

FOUR IN

THE FRAY

The assembly polls are significant for national ambitions of BJP and Congress for the 2024

Lok Sabha elections. Janata Dal-Secular hopes the people will reject the national parties. And

AAP tries their luck with a new manifesto

OUR BUREAU
Bengaluru/New Delhi

arnataka Chief Minister
Basavaraj Bommai on Friday
Ksaid that the Bharatiya Janata
Party (BJP) will get a clear majority
in the upcoming Assembly elections.
The chief minister was speaking to
the media at the Ghati temple in
Doddaballapur taluk of Bengaluru
Rural district. Bommai said, “A lot
of poll surveys have been done and
it shows the rivalry. Not in favour of
Congress. There is still a month and a
half to the elections and many chang-
es are being seen.”
Talking about the upcoming
elections, the CM said, “The process
of preparing the list has started and
it will be released in another week.”
Talking about the meeting of
opinion gathering of potential can-
didates, he said, “The opinion of the
office bearers at the grassroots level
is being collected, and it will be sub- Prime Minister Narendra Modi at an event with Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai and BS Yediyurappa in Karnataka (ANI)
mitted to the Parliamentary Board
after consultation at the district and Karnataka Assembly elections. The is slated visit Karnataka on April 9 gress for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.
taluk level.” polling would take place in a single to inaugurate an event on comple- Janata Dal-Securlar leaders have
Targeting the leader of the op- phase on May 10, Chief Election tion of 50 years of the Tiger Project. said that the people will reject the
position Siddaramaiah, the CM said, Commissioner Rajiv Kumar said on During the visit, the Prime Minister national parties in the assembly polls.
“Siddaramaiah is desperate. The last Wednesday. The counting of votes is also expected to go on a safari tour External Affairs Minister S Jais-
election was in 2013. Contested again will be done on May 13, the CEC in Bandipur Tiger Reserve, sourc- hankar will embark on a two-day visit
in 2018 and now is dreaming again. said in a press conference. Detailing es said. “PM Modi will inaugurate to poll-bound Karnataka. During the
It is not important that a person be- the data of the electors, the CEC said three-day mega event in Mysuru and two-day visit, Jaishankar will be in
comes the Chief Minister.” that there are a total of 5.21 crores in Chamarajanagar districts on the oc- the capital city of Bengaluru and will
“What he can do for the people the state and the number of 100 plus casion of the completion of 50 years visit Hubbali and Belagavi districts.
of the state as Chief Minister is im- voters is 16,976. of the Tiger Project,” a source said. On Saturday, EAM will address
portant. People rejected him in 2018 He informed that over 58,000 The Prime Minister is likely to women entrepreneurs on how India
and will reject him this time too,” polling stations would be set up hold a meeting with BJP workers became a ‘Vishwaguru’. The Laghu
Bommai added. across the state. and officials, sources said. Karnata- Udyog Bharathi has planned anoth-
The Election Commission of In- Given the importance of the ka assembly polls are significant for er programme of interaction with
dia announced the schedule for the state, Prime Minister Narendra Modi national ambitions of BJP and Con- Continued on next page... >>

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