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Karnataka Assembly Elections 2018: BJP announces first list of 72 candidates

BJP has already announced Yeddyurappa as its chief ministerial candidate, with a target of winning 150 out of 224 assembly seats.

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The BJP, which is striving to return to power after five years in Karnataka, announced the first list of 72 candidates on Sunday. The first list of candidates who will contest Karnataka Assembly polls 2018 was announced after a meeting of the BJP's Central Election Committee. The meeting at party headquarters in Delhi was chaired by party President Amit Shah. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Rajnath Singh, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, former Karnataka chief minister B S Yeddyurappa reportedly attended the meeting. 

BJP has already announced Yeddyurappa as its chief ministerial candidate, with a target of winning 150 out of 224 assembly seats. Yeddyurappa was earlier forced to resign as chief minister in 2011 over graft charges, following which he quit  the party to form his own outfit, the Karnataka Janata Party (KJP),  which failed to make a mark except for damage BJP's prospects in  2013 polls.

He returned to BJP following the announcement of  Narendra Modi as party's prime ministerial candidate ahead of  the 2014 Lok Sabha polls.

Unlike in 2013, when BJP was split into factions with  Yeddyurappa forming KJP and B Sriramulu of Ballari floating  BSR Congress, they are all fighting as a unified force this time around.

Congress has not announced its candidates as the party plans to do it in a single phase for all the 224 assembly seats by April 15.  Janata Dal Secular has already announced candidates for 126 constituencies. The party is in alliance with Bahujan Samaj Party for Karnataka polls.

Karnataka goes to polls on May 12 to elect its representatives and results will be out on May 15. 

(With PTI inputs)

 

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