Today, the Election Commission of India (ECI) will release the schedule for the May assembly election in Karnataka. The election commission has sent out an invitation to announce the election schedule at 11.30 a.m.

The Congress party has been conducting a vigorous campaign against the governing BJP, alleging massive corruption, while the saffron party has recently embarked on a statewide “Vijay Sankalp Yatra.”

The Congress party released its first list of 124 candidates for the Karnataka Assembly elections on Saturday, with former chief minister Siddaramaiah replacing his son and incumbent MLA Yathindra in the Varuna constituency in Mysuru.

Karnataka Congress chief D K Shivakumar was nominated from the Kanakapura assembly constituency, with the first list consisting primarily of the party’s incumbent seats and constituencies for which the state unit recommended only one candidate.

Janata Dal-Secular, an additional significant force in the southern state, has also announced its candidates for 93 seats. Former Karnataka chief minister HD Kumaraswamy proclaimed on Tuesday that, if elected, the JD-S would provide a 50% subsidy on cooking gas cylinders.

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“The central government implemented the Ujwala program by promising free gas.” Women who believed this were given a cylinder and a price increase as a rude awakening. Now that the price of a cylinder has surpassed 1,000, it has become impossible for the poor to subsist,” said Kumaraswamy.

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Son of Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge, Priyank Kharge will run from Chitapur. MB Patil and Dinesh Gundurao have received nominations for the Babaleswar and Gandhinagar constituencies, respectively. The party has dismissed incumbent MLA Venkataramanappa in favor of a new candidate.

Former BJP MLC Puttanna received the Rajajinagar nomination, while former Union Minister KH Muniyappa will run for the Devanahalli seat.

The current representative of Varuna in Mysuru is Yathindra Siddaramaiah, the son of Siddaramaiah. Siddaramaiah, the leader of the Congress Legislature Party, presently represents the Badami segment of Bagalkote district in the state’s northern region. DK Shivakaumar is currently serving as an MLA for Kanakapura.

He was on the verge of deciding to run from Kolar. Siddaramaiah had been preparing the ground for Kolar for the past few months, as it was one of his target constituencies. Siddaramaiah listed Badami, Varuna, and Kolar as the three constituencies he would choose from in his formal application to the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) in February.

Previously, Siddaramaiah indicated that he may compete for assembly in his former home constituency of Varuna. His reluctance to choose a district is said to have delayed the release of the party’s initial list of candidates. In 2018, he was defeated by Chamundeshwari in Mysuru, but he defeated Badami in Bagalkot.

In the coming days, the Election Commission is anticipated to release the polling schedule for the upcoming May assembly elections.

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The Congress had proclaimed three election ‘guarantees’: 200 units of free electricity to all households (Gruha Jyoti), Rs 2,000 monthly assistance to the woman head of every family (Gruha Lakshmi), and 10 kilograms of free rice to each member of a BPL household. (Anna Bhagya). Recently, Rahul Gandhi announced in Belagavi, Karnataka, the “Yuva Nidhi” scheme, which provides a monthly allowance to destitute youth in Karnataka.

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