<p>Congress Legislature Party (CLP) leader Siddaramaiah will camp in the Jamkhandi Assembly constituency (Bagalkot district) to help the party retain the seat in the November 3 bypoll.</p>.<p>Congress’ Siddu Nyamagouda had won Jamkhandi in the May 12 Assembly election. A few weeks later, he died in a road accident. Nyamagouda was a close aide of Siddaramaiah. The party is likely to field Siddu Nayamagouda’s son Anand for the bypoll.</p>.<p>A native of Mysuru, Siddaramaiah now represents the Badami constituency in the same district. In the May 12 polls, Siddaramaiah suffered a huge setback in the Chamundeshwari Assembly segment, but managed a narrow victory in Badami. Among the many reasons Siddaramaiah chose to contest from Badami was to strengthen the party in north Karnataka.</p>.<p>According to sources, the former chief minister will spend at least one week in the constituency after the nomination process is over later this month.</p>.<p class="byline"><span class="bold"><strong>‘Not against religion’</strong></span></p>.<p>In a series of tweets, Siddaramaiah hit out at his detractors for branding him as “anti-Hindu” and blamed this propaganda as the reason for the Congress’ defeat in the Assembly polls.</p>.<p>“I love all religions. I am not against the concept of worship. My wife performs puja everyday. How am I anti-Hindu? They also called me anti-God. But it was I who started Jayantis for Krishna, Kittur Chennamma, Bhageeratha, Narayanaguru, Tipu, Vishwakarma, Devara Dasimayya and others,” he tweeted.</p>
<p>Congress Legislature Party (CLP) leader Siddaramaiah will camp in the Jamkhandi Assembly constituency (Bagalkot district) to help the party retain the seat in the November 3 bypoll.</p>.<p>Congress’ Siddu Nyamagouda had won Jamkhandi in the May 12 Assembly election. A few weeks later, he died in a road accident. Nyamagouda was a close aide of Siddaramaiah. The party is likely to field Siddu Nayamagouda’s son Anand for the bypoll.</p>.<p>A native of Mysuru, Siddaramaiah now represents the Badami constituency in the same district. In the May 12 polls, Siddaramaiah suffered a huge setback in the Chamundeshwari Assembly segment, but managed a narrow victory in Badami. Among the many reasons Siddaramaiah chose to contest from Badami was to strengthen the party in north Karnataka.</p>.<p>According to sources, the former chief minister will spend at least one week in the constituency after the nomination process is over later this month.</p>.<p class="byline"><span class="bold"><strong>‘Not against religion’</strong></span></p>.<p>In a series of tweets, Siddaramaiah hit out at his detractors for branding him as “anti-Hindu” and blamed this propaganda as the reason for the Congress’ defeat in the Assembly polls.</p>.<p>“I love all religions. I am not against the concept of worship. My wife performs puja everyday. How am I anti-Hindu? They also called me anti-God. But it was I who started Jayantis for Krishna, Kittur Chennamma, Bhageeratha, Narayanaguru, Tipu, Vishwakarma, Devara Dasimayya and others,” he tweeted.</p>
