Congress candidate G.G. Anandaswamy Gaddadevaramath filed his nomination papers for the second time, amid a roadshow, in Haveri on Wednesday.
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Mr. Gaddadevaramath, who is the son of the former MLA G.S. Gaddadevaramath, had filed his nomination papers two days ago with his family members. And, on Wednesday, he filed another set of nomination papers along with senior leaders of the party.
After submitting his fourth set of nomination papers to Returning Officer Raghunandan Murthy, Mr. Gaddadevaramath took part in huge roadshow along with a host of leaders, including Law Minister H.K. Patil, district in-charge Minister Shivanand Patil, MLAs U.B. Banakar, Srinivas Mane, Prakash Koliwad, Rudrappa Lamani and Chief Whip of Legislative Council Saleem Ahmed.
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The roadshow started from Hukkeri Mutt and after going through the thoroughfares of the city, it concluded at Dundi Basaveshwar Temple. Hundreds of party workers, followers and well-wishers of the candidate took part in it, waving the party flag.
Speaking to presspersons, Mr. Shivanand Patil took a dig at the former Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai and said that out of greed for power, he was contesting Lok Sabha elections even after becoming the Chief Minister. “After being a Chief Minister, Mr. Bommai now wants to become a member of Parliament thus depriving his party workers and leaders of an opportunity to contest,” he said.
Mr. H.K. Patil said that the Congress will win all the 12 seats in North Karnataka and the State government will become even more stronger after the elections. He expressed the confidence that INDI Alliance will get a clear mandate in the elections as people are fed up with what he said the BJP misrule.