The coastal city of Udupi hit the headlines last year when a government pre-university college for girls turned down the demand of six Muslim girls to allow them to wear hijab or headscarf in classrooms. The vice-president of the college development committee, Yashpal Suvarna, who stood firmly with the president of the committee and incumbent BJP MLA K. Raghupathi Bhat in making the “dress code” mandatory in the college, is the BJP candidate in the Udupi Assembly constituency.
Incumbent denied ticket
Udupi is among the five constituencies in the coastal districts where the BJP denied the ticket to its incumbent MLAs.
