Udupi: The BJP will surely win 28 seats or more out of the 35 seats in the Udupi City Municipal Council, said Raghupathy Bhat, Udupi MLA.
He was speaking after releasing the list of BJP candidates for the upcoming Udupi City Municipal Council election during the press meet at the BJP office. He added that there were several people who wanted to contest in city council election but the issue had been resolved with mutual understanding.
Speaking about the previous administration, he said that the Congress looted the people by overcharging trade license fees. The city municipality used home guards to forcefully renew license fees. During the previous election, the Congress ad mentioned in its manifesto that no garbage collection charges would be applied on the people, there would be no hike in municipal taxes, there would be better street light facilities and so on. But, the Congress ruled the city municipality has failed to fulfill their promises, he alleged adding that the people were fed up with corruption in the city municipality, he said.
Earlier, Mattar Rathnakar Hegde, BJP District President released the list of BJP candidates for the Udupi City Municipal Council elections 2018:
Kola Ward–B/W (A), Reserved for Woman–Laxmi Manjunath Salian, Vadabhandeshwara Ward–General–Yogish B Salian, Malpe Central Ward–B/W (B), Reserved for Woman–Edlin Karkada, Kodavoor Ward–General–Withheld, Kalyadi Ward–B/W (A)–Sundar J Kalyadi, Moodabettu Ward–General–Shrisha Bhat, Kodankoor Ward–S/T, Reserved for Woman–Sampathavathi, Nittur Ward–B/W (A), Santhosh Jathanna, Subramanya Nagar Ward–B/W (A), Reserved for Woman–Jayanthi K Poojary, Kakkunje Ward–General–Withheld, Gopalpura Ward–General, Woman–Manjula V Nayak, Karamballi Ward–B/W (A), Giridhar Acharya, Moduperampalli Ward–General, Woman–Aruna S Poojary, Sarlebettu Ward–B/W (A), Withheld, Shettybettu Ward–B/W, Reserved for Woman–Ashwini Arun Poojary, ,Parkala Ward–General, Reserved for Woman–Sumithra R Nayak, Iswarnagar Ward-B/W (A)–Manjunath Shettigar, Manipal Ward–General Ward–Kalpana Sudhama, Mudu Sagri Ward–S/T, Reserved for Woman–Bharathi Prashant, Indrali Ward–S/C-Ashok Naik, Indira Nagar Ward–General–Chandrashekar U Sherigar, Badagubettu Ward–General–Arun Shettigar, Chitpadi Ward–General–Srikrishna Rao Kodancha, Kasturba Nagar Ward–S/T–Raju, Kunjibettu Ward–B/W (A)–Girish M Anchan, Kadiyali Ward–General, Reserved for Woman–Geeta Devraya Shet, Gundibail Ward–General-Prabhakar Poojary, Bannaje Ward–B/W, Reserved for Woman–Savitha Harish Ram Bhandary, Tenkapete Ward–General, Woman–Manasa Pai, Olakadu Ward–General, Reserved for Woman–Rajani Hebbar, Bailoor Ward–General–Mahesh Takoor, Kinnimulki Ward–General, Reserved for Woman–Jyothi Ramnath Shetty, Shiribeedu Ward–B/W (B)–T G Hegde, Ajjarkadu Ward–General, Woman–Rashmi Chittaranjan Bhat and Ambalpadi Ward–General–Harish Shetty.
Kuthyaru Naveen Shetty, Kappettu Praveen Shetty, Yashpal Suvarna, Prabhakar Poojary, Ravi Amin and Raghavendra Kini were present during the press meet.
