2018 Karnataka Assembly Elections May 12,2018 - BJP picks heavyweight B Sreeramulu to take on CM Siddaramaiah in Badami

 

Winning Badami constituency may not be a cakewalk for Chief Minister K Siddaramaiah in Karnataka. Posing a challenge to his candidature, the Bharatiya Janata Party has fielded party heavyweight and Bellary MP B Sreeramulu against Siddaramaiah.

Sreeramulu, a four-time MLA and sitting MP, had contested an election on a BJP ticket from Bellary in the 1999 Assembly elections.

 In 2011, he had quit the BJP and launched his own party, called the BSR Congress Party (BSRCP). He was elected to the Lok Sabha from Bellary constituency in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.