Polls: Game of thrones in name of namesakes!

BENGALURU: What is in a name? A lot, in relation to the Karnataka assembly polls.

As Karnataka is going to the polls, confusion prevails amongst electorate in constituencies with the candidates having the typical names.

For example, within the Hassan district’s Holenarasipura constituency, the call of H D Revanna is doing the rounds - for different causes: the JD(S) contestant and son of former PM H D Deve Gowda has a namesake. Another H D Revanna is contesting from here. He is working as an insurance coverage agent from Chikkamagaluru.

Election mavens say it's an historic disease and one of the most oldest political tactics, whose primary intention is to thieve the stronger candidate's votes. "It is a political gimmick to defeat opposition leader," they aver.

If the voter knows the tactics of politicians, she or he can make a choice the proper particular person, they say.

The problem of namesakes persists in additional than 30 constituencies in Karnataka.

While from Holalkere constituency, Anjaneya contesting as an impartial candidate is up in opposition to minister H. Anjaneya from the Congress, in Mandya district's Melukote constituency, there are three Puttarajus. The most powerful of them is CS Puttaraju, whilst different two others contestants are Puttaraju and B K Puttaraju.

Here is an inventory of constituencies with more than one same-name candidates.

Telahanka constituency

M N Gopalakrishna (Congress)

H K Gopalakrishna (Independent)

A M Hanumanthegowda (JDS)

H A Hanumanthegowda (Independent)

Hebbal constituency

B S Suresh (Congress)

B S Suresh (Others)

B M Suresh (Others)

Y A Narayanaswamy (BJP)

M Narayanasway (Others)

D Narayanaswamy (Others)

CV Raman Nagar constituency

S Raghu (BJP)

S Raghu (Others)

Bengaluru South constituency

A C Shrinivasa (Congress)

Shrinivasa (Others)

V Shrinivasa (Others)

M Krishnappa (BJP)

M Krishnappa (Others)

Jayanagara constituency

B N Vijayakumar (BJP)

Vijayakumar (Others)

Anekal constituency

A Narayanaswamy (BJP)

A Narayanaswamy (Others)

C Narayanaswamy (Others)

Sidlaghatta constituency

J K Krishnareddy (JDS)

Krishnareddy (Others)

M Krishnareddy (Others)

M Krishnareddy (Others)

Chintamani constituency

Dr M C Sudhakar (Bharatiya Prajapaksha)

N R Sudhakar (Others)

M Sudhakar (Others)

K Sudhakar Reddy (Others)

T A Sudhakar Reddy (Others)

R Sudhakar (Others)

Melkote constituency

C S Puttaraju (jds)

B K Puttaraju (Others)

Maski constituency

Basanagowda (BJP)

Basanagowda (Others)

Holenarasipura constituency

H D Revanna (jds)

H D Revanna (Others)

Arkalgud constituency

A Manju (Congress)

H C Manju (Dr Ambedkar People's Party)

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