Swaraj India, the fledgling political outfit led by psephologist and former AAP leader Yogendra Yadav, is set to contest in 12 seats in the coming Karnataka Assembly election, a party spokesperson has said. The party released its first list of six candidates for the polls.
The six candidates named by the party so far feature five seats in south and central Karnataka and one in the state's northeast. The party's named candidates feature in two seats in Mandya and one each in Bengaluru and Chamarajanagara districts, all southern districts with strong agricultural communities.
Also named were candidates for one seat each in the central Chitradurga and northeastern Yadgir districts.
The first list of candidates of the party features Darshan Puttannaiah from Melukote and SH Linge Gowda from Maddur in Mandya; KP Bhoothaiah from Challakere in Chitradurga, S Srikantaswamy from Hanur in Charamajanagara; Ramesh Chandra from Mahadevapura in Bengaluru, and Vaijanath Patil from Yadgir.
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