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Chikkamagaluru: BJP national general secretary and four-time MLA C T Ravi, is representing this seat. He is the only Congress MLA in the BJP stronghold of Dakshina Kannada district. Mangaluru: The Congress has again fielded its Deputy Leader in Assembly, U T Khader Ali Fareed. A former state congress chief, who served in that post for eight years, he has already said he is among the Chief Ministerial aspirants. Koratagere: Former Deputy Chief Minister and five time MLA, G Parameshwara, is seeking reelection from here. Chittapur: Former Minister Priyank Kharge, son of AICC President M Mallikarjuna Kharge, is seeking reelection from here. Reddy's brother G Somasekara Reddy is the sitting BJP MLA. Ballari city: Former Minister, mining baron and chief of Kalyana Rajya Pragati Paksha, G Janardhana Reddy has announced that his wife Aruna Lakshmi will be fielded from here. Vijayapura: Basanagouda Patil Yatnal, known for his controversial statements, is the BJP MLA here. Currently it is held by Paranna Ishwarappa Munavalli of BJP. Gangavati: Gangavati has suddenly become important after the mining baron and former BJP minister G Janardhana Reddy decided to fight from here representing his new party “Karnataka Rajya Pragathi Paksha ''. Muniyappa who had spent all his electoral politics in Lok Sabha is trying his luck from Devanahalli and he will fight the assembly election against JD(S) sitting MLA L N Narayana Swamy. Devanahalli: The Modi Juggernaut in 2019 had halted Congress MP K H Muniyappa's long stint in Lok Sabha continuously from 1991. Jarkiholi quit Congress and joined the BJP in 2019. Jarkiholi resigned from his ministerial position following a sex scandal two years ago. Gokak: Nicknamed as 'Sahukara', Ramesh Jarkiholi of the powerful Jarkiholi family of Belagavi has been representing this seat since 1999. Last time the JD(S) gave Madhu ticket but this time he is in the Congress. Soraba: This constituency may see the two sons of former chief minister late S Bangarappa, Kumar Bangarappa, who is a sitting BJP MLA, and Madhu Bangarappa, pitted against each other again. Shivamogga: K S Eshwarappa, who resigned as minister following a bribery charge, is the sitting MLA here. There is a buzz in political circles that his second son B Y Vijayendra may get the ticket. Shikaripura: The seat held by former CM and Lingayat strongman B S Yediyurappa is now vacant following his retirement from active politics. Kumaraswamy is again contesting from the same constituency. Channapatna: JD(S) second-in-command H D Kumaraswamy decided to contest from here instead of Ramanagara in 2018 only to defeat the local strongman C P Yogeeshwara. The JD(S) has to hunt for a new candidate. The JD(S) sitting MLA K Srinivasa Gowda had sided with the Congress during the Rajya Sabha election last year in June. Kolar: Former Chief Minister Siddaramaiah had expressed his willingness to contest from here but withdrew at the last moment. This time, the JD(S) is confronted with a ‘family feud' where Deve Gowda's daughter-in-law (H D Revanna's wife) Bhavani has demanded a ticket to contest from Hassan. Hassan: The BJP's Preetham Gowda broke the JD(S) monopoly last time by defeating H S Prakash with a victory margin of about 13,000 votes. Kanakapura: Congress state president D K Shivakumar, nick-named as ‘Kanakapura Rock' is a seven-time MLA and has maintained his winning streak from 1989 to till date. The BJP, which was in the third position, now has the backing of independent MP Sumalatha, who recently extended her support to it.

Mandya: M Srinivas from the JD(S) had won the 2018 assembly election defeating the Congress candidate. He had lost his maiden poll battle in the Lok Sabha election in 2019 to the BJP backed independent MP Sumalatha Ambareesh from Mandya.Ĥ. This time the party has fielded Kumaraswamy's son Nikhil.

Ramanagara: Anitha Kumaraswamy, wife of former Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy and daughter-in-law of former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda, had won the 2018 election. Now, it is his son's turn to make the 'sacrifice'.

While he lost from Chamundeshwari to JD(S) candidate G T Deve Gowda, he won with a margin of 1,996 against the BJP candidate B Sriramulu in Badami. Varuna: Congress stalwart and former Chief Minister Siddaramaiah is going back to his old constituency, which he had ‘sacrificed' for his son S Yathindra in 2018 and went on to contest from Chamundeshwari and Badami. He won the 2018 assembly election with a victory margin of 9,265 votes against Sayed Azeem Peer Khadri (Congress). Shiggaon: Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai is the sitting MLA. BENGALURU: For the May 10 Assembly elections in Karnataka, following are the 20 seats to watch out for: 1.

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