Bengaluru, March 8 In view of the upcoming by-elections to the Bagalkote and Davangere South Assembly constituencies, KPCC President D K Shivakumar has constituted steering committees for both constituencies to select candidates and formulate necessary electoral strategies for the victory of party candidates.
A communication from Shivakumar's office, dated March 6 and released to the media on Sunday, stated that the committees were constituted as per the instructions of the All India Congress Committee (AICC).
The by-polls for the Bagalkote and Davanagere South Assembly constituencies are necessitated following the deaths of sitting Congress MLAs H Y Meti and Shamanur Shivashankarappa, respectively.
KPCC Working President Vasantha Kumar has been appointed as the convenor for the fifteen-member committee for the Bagalkote constituency. The committee includes the district in-charge Minister R B Thimmapur and Ministers M B Patil, Shivananda Patil, Shivaraj Tangadagi, Sharanbasappa Darshanapur, Raheem Khan, and Byrathi Suresh.
Party Working President Manjunath Bhandary convenes the sixteen-member committee for Davangere South. The committee includes the District in-charge Minister S S Mallikarjun and Ministers K H Muniyappa, B Z Zameer Ahmed Khan, Eshwar Khandre, Krishna Bhyre Gowda, Sharan Prakash Patil, Priyank Kharge, Laxmi Hebbalkar, Santosh Lad, and Madhu Bangarappa.
In Bagalkote, Congress's Meti defeated BJP's Veeranna Charantimath by a margin of 5,878 votes in the 2023 Assembly polls. In Davangere South, Congress's Shivashankarappa defeated BJP's B G Ajay Kumar by a margin of 27,888 votes.
