: After defeat in Ramanagar Assembly seat on Janata Dal Secular ticket in 2023, Nikhil Kumaraswamy, son of Union Minister for Heavy Industries and Steel and former Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy, tries his luck in Channapatna Assembly seat by-poll as a nominee of National Democratic Alliance (NDA).
He entered the fray as a JDS nominee backed by BJP. Earlier to his contest from Ramanagar seat, Nikhil unsuccessfully contested the Mandya Lok Sabha seat in 2019. He filed his nominations in Channapatna Tahsildhar’s office in Ramanagar district.
The Channapatna Assembly seat was represented by Nikhil’s father H.D. Kumaraswamy in 2018 and 2023 and this Assembly seat is considered to be a JDS bastion.
However, Nikhil’s mother Anitha Kumaraswamy once tried her luck from Channapatna in the 2013 election and lost to C.P. Yogeshwar then a Samajwadi Party nominee.
Nikhil is the president of State Youth Janata Dal Secular (JDS) and JDS is part of NDA led by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). After a series of meetings between alliance partners- Nikhil’s candidature was announced for Channapatna by-poll. Prior to filing his papers, Nikhil told reporters in Bengaluru that voters of Channapatna will vote for him in the by-poll considering the contributions made by his grandfather and former Prime Minister H.
D. Devegowda and his father H.D.
Kumaraswamy. In Channapatna, Nikhil is all set to have a straight fight with Congress nominee and former minister C.P.
Yogeshwar. C.P.
Yogeshwar is a f.
