India News | JD-S Candidate Files Nomination for Bypoll to RR Nagar Seat

Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], October 14 (ANI): Janata Dal-Secular candidate V Krishnamurthy filed his nomination on Wednesday for by-poll to the Rajarajeshwari Nagar (RR Nagar) assembly constituency.

Krishnamurthy was accompanied by party leader HD Kumaraswamy.

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The bypoll has been necessitated after sitting MLA N Munirathna left Congress to join the BJP.

Rajarajeshwari Nagar along with Sira in Tumakuru district will go for by-polls on November 3, for which the election notification will be issued on October 9.

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The Sira seat fell vacant following the death of JD-S MLA B Sathyanarayana on August 5.

The Election Commission has said that the guidelines relating to COVID-19 are to be followed strictly during the by-polls. (ANI)

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