Bangalore: Polling for the Bangalore North primaries, the Congress's attempt at internal democracy in choosing its candidates is underway in the IT city. Four candidates are trying their luck to see who amongst them gets the maximum votes to be the party's official candidate in the crucial Lok Sabha seat of Bangalore North. The person who gets selected in this exercise will be up against former Chief Minister D V Sadananda Gowda.
In the fray at the primaries are AICC spokesperson and IIM Bangalore Professor M V Rajeev Gowda, JDS migrant and former MP C Narayanaswamy, KPCC spokesperson G C Chandrashekar and former MLA N L Narendra Babu. C Narayaswamy, who is said to be close to Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, is the hot favourite amongst the candidates.
The primaries saw some disruption, after a bus carrying Congressmen got delayed due to traffic in reaching the venue and entered into a scuffle at the polling station. But soon after the Congress observers from New Delhi asked them to leave the venue, they cleared out.
Polling started after an oath was administered which said that the winning candidate will get the support of all workers during the main Lok Sabha election. Karnataka has seen one such experimental primary earlier in Dakshina Kannada constituency last week. Former Union Minister and veteran Congress leader B Janardhan Poojary was declared the official candidate from there. The Bangalore North results will be out by this evening itself.
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