Bengaluru: The Congress party released the names of four candidates for the biennial Legislative Council elections to be held on June 11.
C M Ibrahim, K Govindraj, Aravind Kumar S Arali and K Harish Kumar have been chosen as Congress candidates after the party chief Rahul Gandhi approved their candidature.
Incidentally, K Harish Kumar is the incumbent Dakshina Kannada Congress Committee (DKCC) President and a prominent Billava community leader. Harish Kumar has been accommodated to give due representation to coastal district after the party suffered huge losses in the recent assembly elections, where the party managed to retain only one seat.
Other probables including K V Sudarshan and Rani Satish failed to find place this time.
Around 11 seats are going to fall vacant in the state upper house and BJP, Congress and Janata Dal (S) can win 5, 4 and 2 seats respectively based on their existing strength of legislators in the lower house.
The current party standings are : BJP -104, Congress-77 and JDS-37.
