The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday announced Baburao Chinchansur, a prominent Koli (Kabbaliga) community leader from the Kalyana Karnataka region, as its candidate for the byelection to be held to fill the seat vacated by C.M. Ibrahim in the Legislative Council.
The BJP’s Central Election Committee also announced Dharmendra Singh Senthwar and Nirmala Paswan for the vacated posts in Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council along with Mr. Chinchansur’s name for the Karnataka Legislative Council.
The selection of Mr. Chinchansur is widely viewed as the BJP’s reward for quitting the Congress and joining it and for his contributions to defeat the Congress veteran M. Mallikarjun Kharge in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.