Will Nikhil Kumaraswamy stay an Abhimanyu or emerge as ‘Arjuna’ this time? This query has turn into a speaking level in Channapatna Meeting constituency in Karnataka, the place the bypoll will happen on November 13.
NDA candidate Nikhil Kumaraswamy at a roadshow earlier than submitting his nomination on Friday for the Channapatna bypoll. (PTI)
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The celebrated battle of Channapatna has turned out to be ‘Kurukshetra’ of types, with the grandson of former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda, Nikhil attempting his luck for the third time in electoral politics after being defeated twice prior to now.
Nikhil misplaced the 2019 Lok Sabha election from Mandya and within the 2023 Meeting election from Ramanagara. This time he has a direct struggle as an NDA candidate in opposition to the Congress candidate C P Yogeeshwara.
The reference to the battlefield of ‘Kurukshetra’ from the epic ‘Mahabharata’ is drawn within the Channapatna bypoll given that Nikhil had performed the function of ‘Abhimanyu’ within the Kannada interval film ‘Kurukshetra’.
Because the story goes, Abhimanyu, the son of legendary archer Arjuna, makes the supreme sacrifice within the battle, a lot to the delight of his opponents ‘Kauravas’.
“I have only seen defeat in my political career. I appeal to the people of Channapatna to give me a chance to serve you as devotedly just as my grandfather and father did,” Nikhil informed his voters in Channapatna on Sunday.
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Union Minister H D Kumaraswamy was assured that his son would emerge as Arjuna and never Abhimanyu.
“He (Nikhil) had played the role of Abhimanyu in the movie ‘Kurukshetra’. In politics too he was trapped like an Abhimanyu, but the people of Channapatna this time have decided not to let him ‘Abhimanyu’. They want him to play the role of Arjuna and emerge victorious,” Kumaraswamy, who can be, former chief minister, informed reporters in Hassan on Sunday.
Kumaraswamy and his spouse Anitha Kumaraswamy went to Hassan to pay their obeisance to Goddess Hasanamba, the deity of their residence city and search her blessings for his or her son.
Chief Minister Siddaramaiah didn’t really feel so concerning the third era of the JD(S) first household.
“Wasn’t he Abhimanyu in the two previous elections? He lost the 2019 parliamentary election from Mandya constituency when his father was the chief minister of Karnataka. He also lost the Ramanagara Assembly election. How can he become Arjuna all-of-a-sudden?” Siddaramaiah quipped.
The Channapatna Meeting constituency fell vacant after Kumaraswamy resigned following his victory within the Lok Sabha election from Mandya.
Whereas the JD(S) is attempting exhausting not solely to retain the seat but additionally re-launch Kumaraswamy’s son, the Congress is placing all its efforts to win this seat.
The ruling Congress additionally managed to tug former minister Yogeeshwara from the rival BJP camp and discipline him in Channapatna on the celebration ticket.
The BJP tried exhausting to make sure that its MLC Yogeeshwara stays with them. On the recommendation of BJP nationwide president J P Nadda, JD(S) second-in-command Kumaraswamy had even agreed to discipline him on his celebration ticket. Nonetheless, Yogeeshwara resigned from the legislative council and joined Congress.