
“Who is going to win the seat? BJP or Mr Shettar?”
It’s a question Shilpa Shettar never imagined asking guests – amid preparations for her husband Jagdish Shettar’s campaign – at the couple’s house on Keshwapur road. Shettar, after all, has held the Hubli-Dharwad Central constituency in Karnataka’s Dharwad district for three decades on a BJP ticket.