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Karnataka assembly polls: BJP announces 1st list of candidates

NEW DELHI: The BJP on Sunday announced the first list of 72 candidates who will contest the high stakes Karnataka assembly polls.
The list of names was made public following a meeting of the BJP's Central Election Committee at the party headquarters in Delhi. Party president Amit Shah chaired the meeting, and the attendees included Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Rajnath Singh, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, former Karnataka chief minister B S Yeddyurappa, among others.
BJP, which is striving to return to power in Karnataka after a gap of five years, has announced Yeddyurappa as its chief ministerial candidate, with a target of winning 150 out of 224 assembly seats.
The southern state goes to polls on May 12 to elect its representatives and results will be out on May 15.
Yeddyurappa was earlier forced to resign as chief minister in 2011 over graft charges, following which he quit the party to form his outfit, the Karnataka Janata Party, which failed to make a mark except for damage BJP's prospects in 2013 polls.
He returned to BJP following the announcement of Narendra Modi as party's prime ministerial candidate ahead of the 2014 Lok Sabha polls.
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