The Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) on Friday released its third list of 59 candidates for the upcoming Karnataka Assembly elections.
The party had released its first list of 72 candidates on April 8, followed by the second list of 82 candidates on April 16.
Karnataka will go to polls on May 12. The counting of votes will take place on May 15. The term of the current 224-member legislative Assembly ends on May 28.
The Assembly election is Karnataka is being seen as a battle of prestige between the Congress and the BJP as it is the only major state where the Congress is in power at present. While the Congress would want to retaining it, a win for the BJP will provide a great boost to its campaign for the 2019 Lok Sabha election campaign. The BJP is making a concerted bid to unseat the Congress in Karnataka where the issue of granting "religious minority" status to the dominant Lingayats and Veerashaiva Lingayats has become a major issue.
Here is the full list of candidates listed in BJP's third list:
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Karnataka Polls 2018: Here’s the BJP’s first list of 72 candidates
Karnataka Polls 2018: Here’s the BJP’s second list of 82 candidates
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