Protesters shout ‘Moily Hatao Congress Bachao’ after denial of ticket to Uday Shetty in Karkala

Protesters shout ‘Moily Hatao Congress Bachao’ after denial of ticket to Uday Shetty in Karkala

Karkala: After denying the Congress party ticket to Muniyalu Uday Shetty in Karkala hundreds of his supporters staged a protest against the Congress party near the Taluk Office Karkala.

The protesters shouted slogans against former chief minister Veerappa Moily. They shouted slogans like ‘Moily Hatao Congress Bachao’.

The protesters alleged that the former chief minister Veerappa Moily mislead the party high command. He tried field his son Harsha Moily in Karakala and failed. Later he played his game and fielded Gopal Bhandary. During the last assembly elections, there was an internal survey in the party where Harsha Moily got very few votes. If the party ready to have an internal survey between Gopal Bhandary and Uday Shetty then definitely Shetty will get the highest number of votes.

Veerappa Moily id working against the Congress party in Karkala. He has not visited any villages in Karkala. He does not want genuine workers for the Congress. We will not work for the party if the party imposes Gopal Bhandary on us. They demanded to give the ticket to Uday Shetty. If the party high command does not consider the party workers demand Uday Shetty will contest as an Independent candidate, they warned.

Uday Shetty visited the protest place, addressing the media he said, “The Congress had not only lost the Karkala seat to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the Assembly elections in 2013 but had also failed to win a single Zilla Panchayat seat in Karkala constituency in the subsequent Zilla Panchayat elections”.

“It had also lost all the 19 seats of the Karkala Taluk Panchayat to the BJP. As many as 26-gram panchayats in the constituency too were under BJP-supported candidates. I am a sincere Congress party worker and I don’t have any personal agenda. I have strengthened the party from the grassroots level for the last two years. I have great respect for Gopal Bhandary and he is our leader. I have met him many times in regard to the ticket issue and he too had assured me. But the high command finalised his name yesterday and it is very painful for me. There is time until April 24 and I hope the party will consider my name”, he said.