KARWAR: Total six nominations were filed for the election for the legislative council from
Uttara Kannada
on Tuesday. Ganapati Ulvekar and Bheemanna
Naik
filed their nominations as
BJP and Congress candidates respectively.
Assembly Election Results
Leaders of both the parties arrived at the deputy commissioner's officer here and filed the nomination. Later addressing the media district minister
Shivaram Hebbar
said the BJP candidate would win hands down.
"The local bodies were strengthened in the state after BJP came to the power. Grants for different developmental works in rural areas were given and works have been completed during the BJP tenure. The Union government is also interesting in strengthening local self-governments," he said.
BJP has more than 70% votes in Uttara Kannada local bodies. The district has five MLAs and an MP. All will strive hard for victory of BJP candidates, he added.
While filing nomination Karwar MLA Roopali Naik and Kumta MLA Dinakar Shetty and several BJP leaders accompanied the candidate.
Later, Congress candidate Bheemanna Naik filed his papers. Congress leaders RV Deshpande, BK Hariprasad, former MLAs Madhu Bangarappa, Satish Sail, Mankal Vaidya and
Sharada Shetty
accompanied Naik.
Criticizing BJP for trying to weaken the panchayat raj system by not holding elections for zilla panchayat and taluk panchayats, Deshpande said panchayat raj is the gift of Congress party and BJP was always against it.
He said BJP believes in the vulgar display of wealth by distributing money and liquor during the elections and silently killing one after another democratic institution he alleged.
B K Hariparasad too criticized BJP government in the Centre for its 'autocratic' style of functioning and exuded confidence that the Congress candidate will win from Uttara Kannada.
Four independent candidates also filed their nominations and they are Prakash Shripati Hegde from Sirsi, Dattatray Naik from Bhatkal, Ishwar Gouda from Kumta and Somashekhar VS from Karwar.
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