Janardhan Poojari wins Party Primaries; is Congress candidate from DK

Janardhan Poojari wins Party Primaries; is Congress candidate from DK

Mangalore Today News Network

Mangalore,Mar 9, 2014: Senior Congress leader and former union minister B Janardhana Poojari  is now the Congress candidate for the prestigious Dakshina Kannada Lok Sabha constituency. He will once again face  Nalin Kumar Kateel, sitting MP from the BJP against whom   he had lost the previous  elections.

The selection of  Poojari as the Congress candidate  this time can be termed historic in the sense that he was democratically chosen candidate in the first ever Party Primaries held at Rosario Cathedral hall in the city on March 9, Sunday.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As expected Poojari bagged 478 out of the total 547 votes, while his opponent UK Monu could get only 62 votes.Though there were 598 eligible voters, only 547 cast their votes on Sunday. Prominent among the voters were B Ramanatha Rai, District in-charge Minister, UT Khader, health Minister, K Abhayachandra Jain, Fisheries Minister, JR Lobo, MLA and Vijaykumar Shetty, former MLA.

A  team from AICC including Returning Officers Pramod Kumar, Prakash Joshi and Praniel Nair were present.

 

District Minister forgets to bring  ID; Bava arrives late

Mangalore: The Congress Primaries to select party candidate for DK Constituency held at Rosario Cathedral Hall in the city on March 9, Sunday  morning saw some interesting events.

 

 

DK District in-charge Minister and  State Forest Minister B Ramanatha Rai who arrived at the venue at 10 am had stood in the queue along with others to register his name. It was only later that he realised that he had forgotten his ID card back at home in Bantwal. The Returning Officer Praniel Nair requested the minister to wait until his voter ID is produced. A visibly upset Rai had to wait at the venue for some time until someone brought  his ID.

On the other hand, Mangalore North MLA Moidin Bava  who is  infamous for  arriving at almost all functions late, as usual arrived at 11 am at the Primaries venue  By then the registration process was over and the voters had gathered at the Hall  for the Sankalp Samaroh.  Though Bava requested that he be allowed to go inside, the Returning Officer turned down his request and Bava had to return disappointed.