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Amid speculation about leadership change, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Monday asked the people of his Varuna Assembly segment to give the Congress candidate a lead of at least 60,000 votes in the upcoming Lok Sabha poll.
There was stiff competition between Siddaramaiah and Shivakumar for the Chief Minister’s post after the Assembly election results in May last year
A massive loss in regions under the purview of the chief minister could hurt the possibility of Siddaramaiah staying on for a full five-year term since Karnataka Congress head and Deputy CM D K Shivakumar is keen to take over.
Congress Karnataka unit spokesperson M Lakshmana is the party candidate here with some leaders in the outfit projecting the electoral contest as 'Common man versus Raja (king)'.
: The villagers of seaside Rajnagar block started a five-day annual Yajna at Pentha sea beach aiming to propitiate sea god, Varuna, to protect the villages from sea erosion and other disasters like cyclone and flood. Notably, these villages are prone to sea erosion and cyclone, which