Three children of sitting MLAs and Congress leaders have been given ticket for the upcoming Assembly polls, adding to a longer list of Congress ticket holders who will be fighting the election along with their fathers.
The new entrants include Yathindra, son of Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, from Varuna which was won by the latter with a margin of nearly 30,000 votes in 2013.
Minister T.B. Jayachandra’s son Santhosh Jayachandra has been given ticket from Chikkanayakahalli in Tumakuru district where Congress got barely 10,000 votes in the 2013 polls.
Similarly, Home Minister Ramalinga Reddy’s daughter Soumya Reddy has been given ticket from Jayanagar, against B.N. Vijay Kumar, incumbent BJP MLA.