Mysore/Mysuru: In a bid to gain hold over the dominant Vokkaliga community to which he belongs to, Deputy Chief Minister and KPCC President D.K. Shivakumar (DKS) held a meeting with several community leaders ahead of the LS polls, at a private hotel on Sayyaji Rao Road here yesterday.
Addressing the meeting, Shivakumar said that the Congress has given tickets to Vokkaliga community members in as many as 8 LS Constituencies in the State and the party has given the ticket to a Vokkaliga leader in Mysuru-Kodagu Constituency after a gap of 47 years.
