With the JD(S) formally announcing former Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy as the BJP-JD(S) combine’s candidate from Mandya Lok Sabha constituency in the forthcoming polls, all eyes are now on the next course of action of incumbent MP Sumalatha Ambareesh, who was hoping to seek re-election from the constituency as the BJP candidate.
Though Ms. Sumalatha had won as an independent candidate after defeating Nikhil Kumaraswamy, the Congress-JD(S) combine’s nominee during the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, she had declared her support to the BJP ahead of the 2023 Assembly elections in Karnataka. She had time and again reiterated that she was hopeful of securing the BJP ticket, but also made it clear that she would contest the elections only from Mandya Lok Sabha constituency, earlier represented by her late husband and actor Ambareesh.
