With the May 10 Assembly Elections in Karnataka right around the corner, senior political leaders from across parties are currently thronging the southern state, campaigning for their respective candidates.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is one of the star campaigners for the BJP. Since January, the prime minister has visited Karnataka ten times (as of April 30), the highest ever in a single year since he became prime minister in 2014.
Modi, who began a two-day visit to Karnataka — his first after the BJP announced its candidates — on April 30, will address three rallies in Kolar, Channapattna and Belur districts on Sunday. Over the next 11 days, PM Modi is expected to hold as many as 22 rallies across the state till May 7, news agency ANI reported. On each visit, PM Modi is scheduled to take part in more than three rallies.
We’ll be tracking PM Modi’s campaign trail in Karnataka
For the first time in Karnataka, a BJP manifesto has promised to implement the Uniform Civil Code, apart from bringing in a National Register of Citizens. If voted to power, the BJP will bring in the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) “based on the recommendations of a high-level committee to be constituted for the purpose”, the manifesto released on Monday by BJP national president J P Nadda says.
The BJP has announced 222 candidates for the elections to the 224-member Karnataka assembly slated to be held on May 10. The results will be declared on May 13. The party needs to cross the halfway mark of 113 in order to form the government in the state.
The ruling party had announced its first list of 189 candidates fielding 52 new faces and eight women candidates. While the BJP has fielded Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai from his traditional Shiggaon seat, former CM B S Yediyurappa’s son B Y Vijayendra will be contesting from his father’s Shikaripura constituency.
