After winning the Mysuru Lok Sabha constituency during the last two consecutive elections in 2014 and 2019, the BJP leadership decided against fielding its incumbent MP Prathap Simha and instead chose the scion of the erstwhile Mysuru royal family Yaduveer Srikantadatta Narasimharaja Wadiyar as its candidate for the constituency in a surprise move.
Even though the exact reason for the BJP replacing Mr. Simha, a Vokkaliga, with Mr. Yaduveer has not been made public, the Congress party, which had been considering a proposal to field a person belonging to the dominant Vokkaliga community in the constituency, opted for M. Lakshman, familiar to the people of Mysuru first as a social activist and later as a Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) spokesperson.
