Former Maharashtra Chief Minister and chief of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) Sharad Pawar on Monday announced that his party will contest in a limited number of seats in Karnataka in the next Assembly elections.
Addressing a press conference after inaugurating his party office in Bengaluru, Mr. Pawar said: “We will contest a few seats. Our purpose is to bring secular forces together and our efforts will be to ensure that secular votes are not divided in Karnataka. We will discuss with some secular parties and concentrate on limited seats.”
He said the Karnataka unit of NCP will take out a padayatra covering 511 km in the second week of May to highlight the issues of price rise and unemployment and strengthen the party. “People from across the State will participate in the padayatra that will take off from Tumakuru and culminate in Belagavi. A massive convention will be held in Belagavi,” he said.
