Davanagere: Although the AICC hasn’t officially announced its list of candidates from constituencies in Davanagere for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, Congress leaders have started announcing that former minister S S Mallikarjun, son of another party veteran Shamanur Shivashankarappa, will be the party’s candidate. The party leaders have already started campaigning in all the constituencies.
Speaking to reporters after a meeting with party leaders in Davanagere, Shamanur Shivashankarappa stated that Mallikarjun was given a ticket after he expressed his wish to contest.
“There is no confusion. Everyone knows who will be the party’s candidate from the constituency,” he said.
It can be recalled that G M Siddeshwar, the BJP candidate who is also the incumbent MP, is a relative of Shamanur’s family. “Whoever may be the candidate and the winner, all are in one family,” said a Congress leader.
