Madikeri: After the Congress released its first list of 218 candidates for the upcoming Karnataka Assembly election, the party has put its contentious pick for the Madikeri seat on hold. The lawyer for absconding businessman Mehul Choksi, H.S. Chandramouli, had originally been given a ticket by the party to contest the election from Madikeri.
Sources within the Congress said that the Madikeri seat had been put on hold after reports that the candidate Chandramouli had been Choksi’s — a key accused in the Punjab National Bank fraud case — lawyer. When the first list was released, Supreme Court advocate and Media Co-ordinator for Congress in Karnataka Brijesh Kalappa was reportedly annoyed at having lost his seat to a newcomer.
