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The Janata Dal (Secular) Friday released a second list of 49 candidates for the May 10 Karnataka Assembly polls, including for the Hassan seat, over which there was a dispute within the Deve Gowda family.
The ticket for the seat has gone to a party worker and not to Bhavani Revanna, the daughter-in-law of H D Deve Gowda and wife of H D Revanna who had laid claim to it to make her electoral debut. She lost out following opposition by brother-in-law H D Kumaraswamy.
On Friday, Kumaraswamy claimed that Hassan nominee, Swaroop Prakash, had been decided with Bhavani’s “complete consent”. “With the consent of all the members of our family, we have declared Prakash as the JD(S) candidate for Hassan,” he said.
Prakash is the son of a four-time Hassan JD(S) MLA, who died in 2018. Kumaraswamy had opposed the candidature of Bhavani, arguing that it would strengthen accusations against the JD(S) of being a family party. On Friday, Revanna stood by Kumaraswamy’s side as Prakash was announced as the candidate. Their father Deve Gowda, the former prime minister, knows Hassan inside out, Revanna said.
