List of candidates and link to Affidavits

GENERAL ELECTIONS TO PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES 2009

LIST OF CONTESTING CANDIDATES AND THEIR AFFIDAVITS

 Complete list of candidates who filed in nominations.

As of today only the Affidavits links of Amarsinh Patil and Gadiwaddar are updated as and when the rest are updated same would be informed on this blog.

 

Candidate Name	Party Affiliation	Assets & Liabilities Affidavits	Criminal Records Affidavits
Amarsinh Vasantrao Patil	INC	View	View
Angadi Suresh Channabasappa	BJP	View	View
APPAYYAGOUDA BASAGOUDA PATIL	JD(S)	View	View
ASHOK PANDAPPA HANAJI	Others	View	View
BHAVI KASTURI BASANAGOUDA	Others	View	View
ISMAIL MAGADUM SADEKUNISA MAGADUM	Others	View	View
Mohan Hanamant Gadiwaddar	Others	View	View
Patil Allappa Ramappa	Others	View	View
Patil Ramangouda Siddangouda	BSP	View	View
RAMACHANDRA MAREPPA TORGAL (CHALAWADI)	Others	View	View
VIJAYKUMAR JEENADATH UPADYA	Others	View	View
VINAY APPAYYAGOUDA PATIL	Others	View	View
YELLAPPA PEERAJI BELAGAONKAR	Others	View	View

 

 

Source: EC website

Belgaum: Battling split personality

Media Coverage of Belgaum: This time a note from the Hindustan Times

Protests were done against Sanjay Patil, a BJP MLA, and Suresh Angadi, the sitting BJP MP from Belgaum, 500 kilometres north of the state capital of Bangalore, had helped workers of the Maharashtra Ekikaran Samiti (Maharashtra Unification Committee) hoist a saffron flag atop the new Belgaum City Corporation building.
Angadi had done so alleging a Congress ‘conspiracy’ in removing the flag from the old corporation building, atop which it had flown since 1956.
The BJP politicians had to apologise less than a week later, after finding no support from their party. They had joined the battle of the flags without accounting for one crucial fact: that in Belgaum, the colour saffron does not symbolise Hindutva alone — it also symbolises Maharashtra, which has been claiming Karnataka’s border district since the latter became a state in 1956.
At the time, an overwhelming 45% of Belgaum’s residents spoke Marathi. But it was included in Karnakata on the recommendations of a Centrally-appointed committee. Ever since, the Maharashtra Ekikaran Samiti has been fighting to have the region included in Maharashtra, it claims Marathi-speakers are still the largest linguistic group there.
The Samiti's sub-nationalism runs into its mirror image in Karnataka, in groups like the Karnataka Rakshana Vedike (Karnataka Protection Forum), a hard-line Kannada nationalist outfit known and feared for its often violent ways.
Its chief Narayana Gowda, who speaks only Kannada, had issued a statement saying the saffron flag had created tensions between the communities — not Hindu and Muslim, but Marathi and Kannadiga. “We will put the Maharashtra Ekikaran Samiti in their place,” Gowda said through an interpreter. “The border issue with Maharashtra has been promoted by the NCP and Shiv Sena.”
The dispute has simmered for more than half a century, occasionally blowing up into threats and mini-riots, as in 2005.
A Marathi mayor who passed a resolution asking for Belgaum to be included in Maharashtra had his face blackened. Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray threatened to throw all Kannadigas out of Maharashtra.
It hasn't got to that yet, but the conflict has confused many, including politicians. “We thought the flag represented the Hindu state,” Angadi, a Kannadiga, later said in a statement to the press. “We were fooled.”
Of the whole article I liked the end note “We were fooled.” Said by Angadi. All politicians make use of an issue for their benefit. Angadi tried to make use of the saffron flag issue to woo the Marathi voters and when the Kannada voters came against it, he said he was fooled and apologized to the Kannada voters also.
This time it won’t be easy for Angadi as A B Patil of JDS in also there and the Marathi voters could play a vital role in getting the MP elected.

Source: Hindustan Times

Mostly a triangular fight in Belgaum

A.B.Patil JD(s) a congress loyalist for years recently joined the JD(S) a week ago as he was denied a ticket and now has filed papers from the Janata Dal Secular.

Other 8 people also field in their papers yesterday they are Ramachandra Mareppa Torgal, Ashok Pandappa Hanaji, Vijaykumar Jinadatt Upadhya, Ismail Magdum Sadiqunnisa, Kasturi Basangouda Bhovi, Yellappa Miraj Belgaumkar and Ramangouda Siddangouda Patil, all independents; and Vinay Appayyagouda Patil of the Janata Dal (Secular). The total number of nominations field for Belgaum are 13.

In Belgaum the fight would be a Triangular one between Suresh Angadi BJP, Amarsinh Patil Congress, & A.B.Patil JD(s).

Belgaum has the highest number of personnel serving armed forces

According to election commission statistics, of the total 40,098,823 voters in Karnataka, there are 32,342 defence personnel serving in the Army, Navy and Air Force.
Belgaum has the highest number of personnel serving in the three armed forces.
Of the 10,937 personnel there, 8,187 are men and 2,750 women.

Belgaum is followed by Bagalkot and Kodagu with 2298 and 2231 personnel, respectively

Source: ExpressBuzz