With support of the dominant Vokkaliga community becoming crucial in the elections to Mysuru Lok Sabha constituency, Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar held meetings with leaders and members of the Vokkaliga community in Kodagu and Mysuru on Sunday.
BJP’s Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wadiyar and Congress’s M. Lakshmana are engaged in a direct fight in Mysuru Lok Sabha constituency. Though JD (S) has not fielded a candidate in Mysuru, it has extended support to the candidate from BJP with whom it has entered into an alliance.
Mr. Shivakumar’s meetings with community leaders and members in Kodava Samaja in Madikeri and a hotel in Mysuru were held on the same day as former Prime Minister H.D. Deve Gowda shared the stage with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the Mysuru rally.
