Karnataka Election Dates To Be Announced By Poll Body At 11.30 am

 The term of the 224-member Karnataka Assembly ends on May 24.

Bengaluru:

The Election Commission of India will announce the schedule for the 2023 Karnataka Assembly elections today. The poll body will announce the date at 11:30 am.

The term of the 224-member Karnataka Assembly ends on May 24.

The BJP has set a target of winning at least 150 of the total 224 seats in the Assembly that will go for polls in May. Out of the 224 seats in the Karnataka Assembly, the ruling BJP has set a target of winning at least 150. Meanwhile, the Congress and the JD(S) have announced their first lists of 124 and 93 candidates respectively.

In what could be a key poll issue in the state, the Basavaraj Bommai-led Karnataka government last week announced two new categories for reservation in jobs and education. Chief Minister Bommai also scrapped the 4 per cent quota reserved for Other Backward Classed (OBC) Muslims. The 4 per cent reservation will now be distributed among the Vokkaliga and Lingayat communities equally.

The 224-seat-strong Karnataka Assembly currently has 119 MLAs of the BJP, while Congress has 75 and its ally JD(S) has 28 seats.

Chief Minister Bommai on Tuesday accused Karnataka Congress chief DK Shivakumar of luring BJP MLAs by offering them tickets to constituencies where the Congress is yet to announce its candidates for the upcoming polls.

"KPCC President D K Shivakumar since the last two to three days has been making phone calls to our MLAs in 100 constituencies where they are yet to announce tickets. He is stating that if you (BJP MLAs) come (to Congress) we will give you the ticket," Mr Bommai said, as quoted by news agency PTI.

Congress and its allies on the other hand are riding high on anti-incumbency and several corruption allegations against the BJP as they fight to return to power.

The poll body may also announce dates for the bypolls to Wayanad and Jalandhar. The bypoll to Wayanad is necessitated following Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's disqualification as an MP. Jalandhar is braced to go for polls following the death of sitting Congress MP Santokh Singh Chaudhary in January.

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In Hoshiarpur, Amritpal Singh, mentor escape police again

 

Pro-Khalistani leader Amritpal Singh and his mentor Papalpreet Singh reportedly once again dodged the Punjab Police after a massive search operation was launched in a Hoshiarpur village late on Tuesday night to arrest them.
In the picture, it appears that Amritpal Singh and Papalpreet Singh are sitting atop a truck.
In the picture, it appears that Amritpal Singh and Papalpreet Singh are sitting atop a truck.

The police were chasing a white coloured Innova car (PB-10 CK0527) from Phagwara after they suspected that fugitive Amritpal and his aide could be travelling in that vehicle. The car ran past a police checkpost before stopping at a gurdwara in Mehtiana. The occupants of the vehicle abandoned the car near Gurdwara Bhai Chanchal Singh in Marnaian village and fled, officials told news agency PTI.

The police, however, detained two of his aides in the search operation. The detained persons were following the Innova car.

The village has been cordoned off and a search operation has been launched, while checkposts and barricades have been raised on the roads to nab the suspects.

The ‘Waris Punjab De’ remains at large since a police crackdown against him and the members of the outfit on March 18, about three weeks after he and his supporters stormed into the Ajnala police station near Amritsar to secure the release of an arrested man.

The preacher escaped the police dragnet in Jalandhar district on March 18, switching vehicles and changing appearances.

Amritpal and his associates have been booked under several criminal cases related to spreading disharmony among classes, attempt to murder, attack on police personnel and creating obstructions in the lawful discharge of duty by public servants.

A new video of Amritpal Singh with his key aide Papalpreet Singh surfaced on social media on Tuesday, showing the pro-Khalistan preacher without a turban and wearing a mask.

The undated CCTV camera footage, said to be from a market in Delhi, showed the fugitive walking down a street wearing dark glasses. Behind him, Papalpreet Singh could be seen walking with a bag.

There is no official word from Punjab Police on the fresh footage. A senior Delhi Police official said they are probing whether the persons seen in the video are Amritpal and his aide.

(With inputs from PTI)

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