Bengaluru: Karnataka Rashtra Samithi (KRS), a newly formed political party, has become the first to announce its list of candidates for the 2023 Karnataka Assembly elections.
Ravikrishna Reddy, the party’s State President, announced the names of 35 candidates on Monday December 20.
“People want an alternative regional party as they are fed up with the JD (S), Congress, and BJP since no one has addressed the issue of corruption. We promise a corruption-free government in the State and will ally with like-minded parties like JDU,” said Reddy, a former Convenor of the Aam Admi Party. He clarified that KRS will not ally with SDPI or AIMIM.
Reddy, who ran for the Bengaluru Assembly polls in 2018 from Jayanagar, has given up the seat to Raghupati Bhat this time. A total of 123 people applied, with 70 turning up for an interview in the first week of December. KRS also competed in the recent by-elections in Hanagal and Sindagi, where its candidates received 500 and 900 votes, respectively.
