Amit Shah will be arriving in Bengaluru on a two-day visit to take stock of the party's preparations for the 10 May Assembly elections.
Published Apr 20, 2023 | 5:25 PM ⚊ Updated Apr 20, 2023 | 5:25 PM
Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai with Union Minister Amit Shah. (Supplied)
Union Home Minister and senior BJP leader Amit Shah will be arriving in Bengaluru on Friday, 21 April, on a two-day visit to take stock of the party’s preparations for the 10 May Assembly elections in Karnataka, his first visit to the state after the announcement of the poll schedule.
He is slated to hold a roadshow in Devanahalli town, the birthplace of 18th-century Mysuru ruler Tipu Sultan, in Bengaluru Rural district on Friday afternoon.
Shah would hold a meeting in Bengaluru with senior party functionaries regarding poll preparations in the evening, BJP sources said.
On Saturday, he is scheduled to attend an event organised by a private news channel before flying back to Delhi.
In Devanahalli, the BJP leader will campaign for the party’s Pilla Munishamappa, who is pitted against the sitting JD(S) MLA LN Narayanaswamy and Congress candidate KH Muniyappa, a former Union minister and seven-time MP.
Muniyappa, who was defeated in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, is foraying into the Assembly polls for the first time.
In the 2018 Assembly election, the fight was mainly between Narayanswamy (86,966 votes) and Venkataswamy (69,956) of the Congress. The BJP candidate K Nagesh was a distant third with 9,820 votes.
The state will go to the polls on 10 May and the results will be out on 13 May.
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