On Camera, Karnataka BJP Leader Stopped, Questioned Over Development

Senior BJP chief V Somanna, who’s set to tackle Congress veteran Siddaramaiah withinside the May 10 Assembly polls in Karnataka, confronted embarrassment at the marketing campaign path today. Mr Somanna turned into canvassing in Varuna constituency in Mysuru district while a set of humans surrounded him and wondered him over the shortage of improvement withinside the region. The senior celebration chief, who served as housing and infrastructure improvement minister is the outgoing cabinet, turned into additionally the minister in-rate of Mysuru district.

Visuals confirmed villagers surrounding the minister and asking questions on improvement withinside the constituency. Several BJP leaders, which include Mysuru MP Pratap Simha, have been visible looking to intervene. They have been additionally visible asking humans now no longer to file the trade among Mr Somanna and the villagers.

Elected from Govindraj Nagar Assembly constituency withinside the 2018 election, Mr Somanna has been fielded from seats this time — Varuna and Chamarajanagara.

A former Congress chief who switched to the BJP in 2009, Mr Somanna faces the bold Siddaramaiah in Varuna. The seat, ever because it turned into fashioned in 2008, has subsidized the Congress veteran, sending him after which his son Yathindra Siddaramaiah to the Assembly. The Congress veteran is one of the frontrunners for the Chief Minister submit if the celebration wins the polls and his supporters will go away no stone unturned to make sure his victory in Varuna.

The BJP, however, is assured that Mr Somanna will beat the Congress heavyweight. Addressing a celebration assembly in guide of the BJP chief, Chief Minister Basavaraj S Bommai stated Mr Somanna is a version for improvement.

“The call of Varuna will move past the Mysuru district and he were given the advantages of the Goddess Chamundeshwari. V Somanna means `Victory’ Somanna. A lot of modifications have taken location in Karnataka politics. A few loved energy withinside the call of oppressed classes. They grew in politics however the network remained backward,” he stated.

The BJP additionally goals to faucet into the Lingayat voter base in Varuna with the aid of using fielding Mr Somanna, who’s from the network. The senior chief these days informed the media that the Varuna constituency turned into now no longer new for him due to the fact he had campaigned for Siddaramaiah in the course of the bypolls at Chamundeshwari in Mysuru, returned once they have been withinside the identical celebration. “I will do my job,” he turned into quoted as pronouncing in a record with the aid of using information employer PTI.

The Congress veteran, too, is certain of a win. “I will win with humans’s guide. Let Somanna or every person contest towards me… I am now no longer concerned approximately the opponent as I actually have complete religion withinside the humans of Varuna,” Mr Siddaramaiah stated.