Patna: JDU national president Nitish Kumar is set to campaign in Karnataka on May 6. He will address one rally in the state as the party has fielded candidates on 28 Assembly seats out of 224.
Many leaders are already camping in Karnataka and doing the election campaign. Nitish had already visited Karnataka on April 11 to take part in a party event. However, he would be going to campaign for the first time in the southern state.
JDU spokesperson Ajay Alok who is presently camping in Tumkur district of Karnataka claimed that the party has good chance to win at least 5 to 6 six in the polls.
The JDU has fielded two candidates in Tumkar Town and Tumkur Rural.
Nitish will address the public meeting in Channagiri Assembly constituency where Mahima J. Patel, president of Karnataka JDU unit, is the candidate.
He is the son of former chief minister late J.H. Patel.
"We are continuously visiting the Assembly constituencies where our candidates are contesting the election and our leader chief minister Nitish Kumar will visit the state on May 6 for election campaign. I will also visit Mukunda in Raichur district, then I will also go to Gulbarga located on the Andhra Pradesh border where our candidate is contesting," Alok told The Telegraph from Tumkur over phone.
Alok is one of the 20 star campaigners of which JDU has issued the list on April 25, 2018, apart from several other senior leaders of the party, including chief minister. Three of the four Congress MLCs who recently switched over to the JDU has also made it in the list of the star campaigners.
One of them, Tanveer Akhtar, is also camping at Coorg in Mangalore and senior JDU leader and Rajya Sabha member RCP Singh has completed his three-day journey and once again he will come with Nitish.
Sanjay Jha, who is coordinator for the JDU Karnataka election, is monitoring the movement of the leaders while sitting in Bangalore and also holing the local meeting of the party.
Alok stressed that the JDU is contesting the election alone in Karnataka and not in alliance with the BJP.
"First we have to show our own strength then only anyone will join our force and we can join anyone. For any alliance there is a need to show the strength and this time JDU will do that in Karnataka. Of 28 seats, it would be a fair contest and we will get good votes as well and we are expecting to win at least 5 to 6 seats," Alok said.
Another JDU leader and national general secretary of the party Shyam Rajak who reached Bellary on Thursday said the JDU is contesting the election on the model of anti-corruption and development. He also claimed that the JDU will perform well in Karnataka. Rajak will be campaigning in Bellary and its adjoining Assembly constituencies for the next three days.
