Bangalore never had a woman member of Parliament, and Sowmya Reddy of Congress wants to make history. Politics is not something new for the 41-year-old who had served as MLA of Jayanagar and was heart-broken when she lost by a mere 16 votes in her re-election bid in this city constituency in the Assembly elections last year.
She is taking on MP and BJP Youth Wing chief Tejasvi Surya in Bangalore South segment in the coming Lok Sabha elections. Bangalore South is a BJP stronghold.
Late H N Ananth Kumar, who had served as Union Minister, had represented this segment for six consecutive terms from 1996. But Sowmya — daughter of senior Congress leader and Transport Minister Ramalinga Reddy — remains unperturbed.
The party, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Deputy Chief Minister D K Shiva Kumar, who is also state Congress chief, have put their might behind her. Sowmya alleged that Surya, President of Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha, has not only spread hate and indulged in divisive politics since the last five years but also did not speak up for Karnataka in Parliament. Bangalore South is spread across eight Assembly constituencies. In the 2023 Assembly elections, the BJP won five of them and Congress in three.
Sowmya was generous in her praise of late Ananth Kumar as a Parliamentarian. Mr Ananth Kumar was from BJP but he used to work beyond party lines and after elections also, he used to be in touch with his constituents irrespective of the fact that he was a minister and that’s precisely the only reason why it was BJP for so long, she told.
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