Bengaluru: The by-poll for the South-East Teachers’ constituency will be held on Friday. The by-poll is being held following the resignation of Y A Narayanswamy (BJP), who was representing the constituency. He quit as MLC after he was elected to the Assembly from the Hebbal constituency in a by-election held in 2016.
JD(S) candidate Ramesh Babu, a close confidant of former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda is posing serious challenge to BJP and Congress in the Legislative Council by-poll for the South-East Teachers’ constituency for which polling would be held on Friday.
T N Niranjan (Congress), Basavaraj (BJP) and Ramesh Babu (JD-S) are among the 17 candidates in the fray. The constituency, spread across Kolar, Chikkaballapur, Tumakuru, Chitradurga and parts of Davangere districts, has 21,000 voters. Counting of votes will take place on February 6.
JD(S), which has fielded its vice president and spokesperson Ramesh Babu is determined to snatch the seat from BJP and Deve Gowda himself led the campaign over the last few days. Gowda toured all the five districts and addressed the voters.
