BENGALURU: The BJP on Saturday announced ex-minister Baburao Chinchansur, a former Congress functionary, as its candidate for the byelection to the lone legislative council seat from the assembly.
The bypoll was necessitated after CM Ibrahim resigned from the Congress to join JD(S). Ibrahim was miffed after Congress denied him the opposition leader’s post in the upper house.
On Friday, the BJP central election committee cleared the name of Chinchansur, a five-time MLA and once close confidant of senior Congress leader M Mallikarjun Kharge. He joined the BJP after he lost the 2018 assembly polls in Gurmitkal, alleging that Kharge had worked against him.
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