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rahul gandhi: AICC polls: Rahul Gandhi may vote in Bengaluru in the event of a contest

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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is expected to cast his ballot in the AICC presidential poll in Bengaluru on October 17 if polling becomes necessary to elect the new president.

After Tamil Nadu and Kerala, the Congress leader will begin his Karnataka leg of the Bharat Jodo Yatra on September 30, and will be walking in the southern state during the AICC elections for which nomination filing process began on Saturday.

A clear picture on whether polling becomes necessary will emerge only after September 30, the last day for filing of nominations. The AICC will hold the polls on October 17 if a consensus candidate does not emerge by October 8, the last date for withdrawal of nominations. Sonia Gandhi has remained neutral though Ashok Gehlot and Shashi Tharoor have met her and expressed a desire to contest.

Gandhi’s camp is learnt to be keen that it was better for their leader to take a day’s break from the yatra and visit Bengaluru to cast his ballot rather than travel all the way to Delhi. The party may make some special arrangements while setting up polling booths at the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) office at Queens Road in Bengaluru for polls.

The KPCC leaders have already held discussions about this, said the party sources. Bengaluru is not part of the yatra tour map.

The KPCC is keen to have Gandhi visit Bengaluru during the polls so that it could have him open its swanky new office on Queens Road built at a cost of Rs 22 crore. The office also has an auditorium with 1200-member seating capacity, and sources said the party wished to have Gandhi address a meeting here.

The KPCC president DK Shivakumar has set up a number of committees to handle various responsibilities to make the yatra a big success. The state congress has already held several rounds of meetings in Bengaluru as well as at districts along the route as it is determined to cash in on the yatra. Karnataka is headed to assembly polls in about eight months, and the Congress has already got into a campaign mode.

‘LOTUS WILL BLOOM’

On Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra in Karnataka, Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai said he will come and go. “But in all the constituencies he visited the last time, the BJP’s lotus has bloomed,” he told the media in Mysuru.

Ahead of Gandhi’s arrival in Karnataka, the Congress has stepped up its PayCM campaign, targeting the BJP. Bommai called it attempts by the Congress to even malign the State’s name to achieve its own selfish ends, though it did not have a single case of such corruption to show.

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