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The Hindu
The Hindu
National
Kumar Buradikatti

Gangavati Assembly constituency: Mining baron’s entry into the fray here has stirred up traditional poll equations

Gangavati Assembly constituency in Koppal district, which has seen a triangular battle between the Congress, BJP, and JD(S) in the last four Assembly elections, has a new entrant in the Kalyana Rajya Pragati Paksha (KRPP), replacing the JD(S) in the fight.

After being “sidelined” in the BJP, G. Janardhana Reddy, who along with his brothers G. Somashekhara Reddy and G. Karunakara Reddy and his close associate and Naik community leader B. Sriramulu, played a key role in installing the B.S. Yediyurappa government in Karnataka in 2008, quit the party. He has floated his own political outfit, the KRRP, amid his prolonged legal battle related to illegal mining cases. He is testing his luck in the 2023 Assembly Elections from Gangavati.

First direct fight

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