“During our campaign, our candidates would seek money and roti from people because our candidates are poor; thus we will ask people to offer money and food and also to vote for us,” this is how candidates of Akhanda Karnataka Raita Sangha have decided to proceed with their campaign for the Assembly election.
The sangha has decided to field only three candidates in the district for this election.
The candidates are Ramchandra Bammanajogi from Nagathan, Goudappagouda Maigur from Babaleshwar and Dondiba Pawar from Vijayapura city.
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Addressing a press conference here on Tuesday, State general secretary of the sangha Arvind Kulkarni said that the sangha decided to field candidates as the agrarian community is upset with all political parties.
“All parities, may it be the Congress, the BJP or the Janata Dal(S), all of them have only played politics with farmers by treating them as mere vote bank. All these parties have failed to help the farming community in getting justifiable price. Thus, we decided to field our own candidates in the election. If farmers themselves find a place in the Assembly, then we can hope that they will raise issues effectively,” Mr. Kulkarni said.
Asked why the sangha chose to field candidates only in three places, he said that the sangha has no strength to work across the district, and thus fielded only three candidates.
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He said that on April 23, the candidates would file their nomination papers, for which, a huge procession of bullock carts would be taken out from Siddeshwara temple of the city.