For the first time, the ruling party has declared candidates for 219 seats at one go.
Names for remaining five seats are likely to be decided by Monday evening April 16,2018
The list has the stamp of chief minister Siddaramaiah all over it. He seems to have fought tooth and nail for his supporters and has managed to accommodate most of them.
Chief Minister Siddaramaiah is contesting only from Chamundeshwari in Mysore district and his son Dr Yatheendra is contesting from neighbouring Varuna seat currently held by his father
Despite stiff opposition from within the party, Siddaramaiah has managed to field 10 MLA s who defected to Congress from JDS, BJP and a local party. Giving tickets to "outsiders" had led to a war within the party and it had delayed the release of list by two days
About 40 Lingayats have made it to the list and around 25 Vokkaligas have also been given tickets. There are 15 Muslims, 15 women, seven sitting MLCs and all five sitting Brahmin MLAs have also been renominated.
The Other Backward Classes have got over 50 seats and the smaller upper castes like Kodavas, Bunts and Vaishyas have also got five seats. The two sitting Christian MLAs have been renominated and the lone Jain MLA has also been renominated.
For the first time, the Congress has given tickets to 15 women candidates in the state. Among them two are widows, whose husbands were MLA s in the outgoing Assembly
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