Bengaluru: Eyeing 22 of the total 28 Lok Sabha seats in Karnataka, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has decided to field all its 16 incumbent MPs, including Pratap Simha, D.V. Sadananda Gowda and Shobha Karandlaje, in the State in the elections while the process of selection of candidates for the remaining 12 constituencies is in progress.
Announcing this at a press conference here yesterday, BJP State President B.S. Yeddyurappa said that the party’s State unit’s Core Committee would meet in Bengaluru on Friday to shortlist the probable candidates. He would visit New Delhi on Saturday to get clearance from the Central Election Committee for the first list of candidates with 20 to 22 names, he said.
