JOIN US With just a day remaining for the Bengaluru mayoral election, Congress party corporators are divided over the issue of selecting the party candidate for the post of mayor.
Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committeee (KPCC) working president and Gandhinagar MLA Dinesh Gundu Rao had called a meeting on Tuesday where all the Congress corporators put forth their suggestions regarding the selection of the party candidate for the mayoral election.
It is learnt from party sources that five corporators have expressed their desire to contest the poll. While many senior Congress leaders, including ministers Ramalinga Reddy, K J George, D K Shivakumar, R Roshan Baig and H M Revanna, are backing R Sampathraj, the corporator from Deevarajeevanahalli ward, Dinesh Gundu Rao is in favour of L Govinda Raju, who is a three-time corporator from Subhash Nagar ward in Gandhinagar Assembly segment.
Other names doing the rounds are Velu Nayakar, the corporator from Lakshmi Devi Nagar ward who is being backed by Bangalore Rural MP D K Suresh, Rajarajeshwari Nagar MLA Munirathna and Yeshwanthpur MLA S T Somashekar.
However, Dinesh Gundu Rao has told the corporators that they should abide by the decision to be taken by the senior leaders at a meeting to be held on Wednesday. The meeting will be chaired by KPCC president G Parameshwara.