As per reports, around 40 cases registered against BJP candidate Manikanta Rathod.
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Jagadish Shettar is the second powerful Lingayat figure in to ditch BJP for Congress in Karnataka within a week.
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Former Karnataka CM Jagadish Shettar, whose name was not there in BJP’s first and second lists of candidates, says he is hopeful of getting a ticket
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Party is reluctant to give a second seat to the 75-year-old Congress posterboy in Karnataka, who has declared that this will be his last assembly election. Congress has already declared his candidature from Varuna seat in Mysore, which is currently held by his son Yathindra Siddaramaiah.
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