Bengaluru, 21 March

AICC President M Mallikarjun Kharge’s son-in-law and the children of five ministers figure in the second list of 17 candidates in Karnataka announced by Congress on Thursday for Lok Sabha elections.

Mansoor Ali Khan, son of former Deputy Chairman of Rajya Sabha K Rahman Khan, and Prabha Mallikarjun, wife of Minister SS Mallikarjun and daughter-in-law of veteran party leader Shamanur Shivashankarappa, are the party’s nominees from Bengaluru Central and Davangere, respectively.

Satish Jarkiholi’s daughter Priyanka Jarkiholi (Chikkodi), Ramalinga Reddy’s daughter Sowmya Reddy (Bengaluru South), Shivanand Patil’s daughter Samyukta S Patil (Bagalkot), Laxmi Hebbalkar’s son Mrinal Ravindra Hebbalkar (Belagavi) and Eshwar Khandre’s son Sagar Khandre (Bidar) will be contesting in the polls. In Kalaburagi, Kharge’s son-in-law Radhakrishna Doddamani will be in the fray. Kharge had won the seat in the 2009 and 2014 Lok Sabha elections but lost in 2019.

Prof MV Rajeev Gowda, the Vice-Chairman of Karnataka State Policy and Planning Commission, will take on BJP’s Shobha Karandlaje in Bengaluru North.

The other candidates who figure in the second list are M Laxman (Mysuru), Vinod Asooti (Dharwad), G Kumar Naik (Raichur), Padmaraj (Dakshina Kannada), Jayaprakash Hegde (Udupi-Chikmagalur), K Rajashekar Basavaraj Hitnal (Koppal), Anjali Nimbalkar (Uttara Kannada), and BN Chandrappa (Chitradurga). Congress released its first list of seven candidates in Karnataka on 8 March.—PTI