The main contours of the battle of ballots for the Mysuru Lok Sabha constituency have been drawn with the Congress announcing M. Lakshman as its candidate against its main rival BJP.
The elections will be interestingly poised as Mysuru is also the home turf of Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and the Congress has a formidable rival in Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wadiyar of the BJP.
The Mysuru Lok Sabha constituency was traditionally the bastion of the Congress but has been breached four times in the last six elections since 1998 by the BJP which won twice in succession – in 2014 and 2019.