BELAGAVI: It’s a do or die struggle for KPCC girls’s wing president Laxmi Hebbalkar, contesting from Marathi-dominated Belagavi (Rural) meeting constituency for the second time. She had lost the seat through a slim margin of 2,500 votes in the 2013 election. And in 2014, she lost from the Belagavi Lok Sabha constituency.
The Congress heavyweight, who has admitted more than as soon as that some of her personal party leaders are running in opposition to her, is going through BJP’s sitting MLA Sanjay Patil and Manohar Kinekar, former MLA of Maharashtra Ekikaran Samiti (MES) this time once more. Congress rise up Anand Gaddadevarmath had polled just about 17,000 votes and used to be the impediment to her victory final time.
Clouds of riot loom over the Congress campaign this time once more. Just two months in the past, Congress chief Shivanagouda Patil left the party and is now contesting as a JD(S) candidate. Another prominent Congress chief, Mohan More, too, give up the party and is contesting as an Independent. Both are dependable fans of AICC secretary Satish Jarkiholi, the Congress strongman from Belagavi district.
Shivanagouda Patil may just consume into the Lingayat vote kitty of Hebbalkar, whilst More also may just take away some Congress votes. Hebbalkar has all the reason to fear that the plot to defeat her is thickening once more.
“They are afraid that I may just develop faster and overtake them if elected because I come from a dominant Lingayat neighborhood and additionally am a woman. One chief is doing the whole lot to defeat me,” Hebbalkar says with out taking the identify of Satish.
But Hebbalkar is assured of successful. “The writing on the wall is that I can get about 50% of votes cast. I've been in the constituency for five years now and know the heartbeat of citizens,” she says. Hebbalkar’s freebies to citizens long prior to the elections had been announced has drawn flak from Modi however citizens don't seem to be complaining. BJP’s Patil is overtly enjoying the Hindutva card to woo citizens.
Ex-MLA Manohar Kinekar, the MES candidate who lost final time through 1,500 votes, is banking on sympathy votes from Marathi-speaking folks. His clean image among citizens and commitment to the border dispute may just fetch him extra votes. However, there are two factions in MES. The other faction has fielded four applicants to nibble at Kinekar’s give a boost to.
The Congress heavyweight, who has admitted more than as soon as that some of her personal party leaders are running in opposition to her, is going through BJP’s sitting MLA Sanjay Patil and Manohar Kinekar, former MLA of Maharashtra Ekikaran Samiti (MES) this time once more. Congress rise up Anand Gaddadevarmath had polled just about 17,000 votes and used to be the impediment to her victory final time.
Clouds of riot loom over the Congress campaign this time once more. Just two months in the past, Congress chief Shivanagouda Patil left the party and is now contesting as a JD(S) candidate. Another prominent Congress chief, Mohan More, too, give up the party and is contesting as an Independent. Both are dependable fans of AICC secretary Satish Jarkiholi, the Congress strongman from Belagavi district.
Shivanagouda Patil may just consume into the Lingayat vote kitty of Hebbalkar, whilst More also may just take away some Congress votes. Hebbalkar has all the reason to fear that the plot to defeat her is thickening once more.
“They are afraid that I may just develop faster and overtake them if elected because I come from a dominant Lingayat neighborhood and additionally am a woman. One chief is doing the whole lot to defeat me,” Hebbalkar says with out taking the identify of Satish.
But Hebbalkar is assured of successful. “The writing on the wall is that I can get about 50% of votes cast. I've been in the constituency for five years now and know the heartbeat of citizens,” she says. Hebbalkar’s freebies to citizens long prior to the elections had been announced has drawn flak from Modi however citizens don't seem to be complaining. BJP’s Patil is overtly enjoying the Hindutva card to woo citizens.
Ex-MLA Manohar Kinekar, the MES candidate who lost final time through 1,500 votes, is banking on sympathy votes from Marathi-speaking folks. His clean image among citizens and commitment to the border dispute may just fetch him extra votes. However, there are two factions in MES. The other faction has fielded four applicants to nibble at Kinekar’s give a boost to.
Karnataka election 2018: Knives are out again but Hebbalkar’s wiser now
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