20.2.14

It's Nilekani from Bangalore South

The Congress Election Committee (CEC) headed by AICC president Sonia Gandhi has re-nominated all nine sitting MPs from Karnataka besides finalizing the name of Nandan Nilekani for Bangalore South.
Besides Bangalore South, the CEC cleared candidates for two constituencies Congress is looking to wrest from BJP. Laxmi Hebbalkar who has been given the ticket to contest from Belgaum heads the Belgaum Rural Congress unit. A postgraduate in political science, Hebbalkar (38) had lost the 2013 assembly election from Belgaum Rural. The party is fielding former judge N Y Hanumanthappa from Bellary. He had lost from the same constituency in 2009. Congress hopes to regain Bellary which was its bastion before it was captured by the Reddy brothers.
Nilekani who heads the UIDAI has begun campaigning in Bangalore South where he takes on BJP’s HN Ananth Kumar. Sources said the CEC cleared N Dharam Singh (Bidar), Mallikarjun M Kharge (Gulbarga), M Veerappa Moily (Chikkballapur), K H Muniyappa (Kolar), K Jayaprakash Hegde (Udupi-Chikmagalur) among others. H Vishwanath (Mysore), D K Suresh (Bangalore Rural), Ramya (Mandya) and N Dhruvanarayan (Chamarajanagar).
The state election committee had recommended veteran B Janardhana Poojary for Mangalore.

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