Surgeon, calligrapher, ex-IAS officer & IAS coach give company to Eshwarappa as independent candidates in Karnataka
Some of them come with impeccable credentials with the sole aim of being noticed and heard.
There are also plenty of namesakes across constituencies – for instance little known Dr CN Manjunath taking on well-known Dr CN Manjunath (BJP) or dozens of Suresh taking on DK Suresh (Congress) in Bengaluru Rural or Shobha pitted against Shoba in Bengaluru North.
In Shivamogga, former BJP minister KS Eshwarappa remains in the battlefield as an independent with the sole purpose of defeating sitting MP BY Raghavendra to avenge the denial of BJP ticket to his son KE Kantesh.
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In Bengaluru, there are contestants like laparoscopic surgeon Dr Harish Gowda, calligrapher KC Janardhan and Tintisha Hemachandra Sagar, an entrepreneur with an MBA from Columbia University. Vinay Kumar GB, founder of coaching centre InsightsIAS and Shambu Kallolikar, a former IAS officer of Tamil Nadu cadre, are contesting from Davanagere and Chikkodi, respectively. Kallolikar contested as an independent from Raibag
