Union Home Minister and Senior BJP leader Amit Shah will be arriving in Karnataka on Friday on a two-day visit to take stock of the party’s preparations for the Assembly elections, and this will be his first visit to the state after the announcement of poll schedule, as per the media report.
On Friday afternoon, he is scheduled to hold a roadshow at Devanahalli town, the birthplace of Tipu Sultan, the ruler of Mysuru in the 18th century.
Shah would hold a meeting here with senior party functionaries regarding poll preparations in the evening, BJP sources said. On Saturday, he is scheduled to attend an event organised by a private news channel before flying back to Delhi.
In Devanahalli, the BJP leader will campaign for the party’s Pilla Munishamappa, who is pitted against the sitting JD(S) MLA L N Narayanaswamy and Congress candidate K H Muniyappa, a former Union minister and seven-time MP.
Muniyappa, who was defeated in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, is foraying into the Assembly polls for the first time. In the 2018 Assembly election, the fight was mainly between Narayanswamy (86,966 votes) and Venkataswamy (69,956) of the Congress. The BJP candidate K Nagesh was a distant third with 9,820 votes.