KPCC President DK Shivakumar, former CM Siddaramaiah with BJP leader N Y Gopalakrishna who recently joined Congress, at KPCC office in Bengaluru. (PTI)
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The Congress has announced its candidates for the 224-seat Karnataka Assembly elections. Some of the bigwigs contesting this election include, former Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah, who has been named from his family pocket borough of Varuna, a seat won by his son Dr Yathindra Siddaramaiah last time. Meanwhile, Karnataka PCC president D K Shivakumar will contest his traditional seat of Kanakapura.
Priyank Kharge, the son of Congress president Mallikarujun Kharge, has been fielded again from the seat he won last time, Chitapur (SC) in the Kalaburagi region. Lingayat strongman Jagadish Shettar, who switched over from the BJP, is seeking a re-election from the Hubli-Dharwad Central constituency.
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