The high profile V I P constituency has many interesting contestants this time making it as one of the keenly watched LS seat in the country. The four time winner of BJP's star candidate Mr. Ananth kumar may find it very difficult this time to register a 5th consecutive win. Unlike in the previous elections where his dominant opponents werefrom the congress party,this time he has to face the interesting personalities from Congress,JDS and independents.
Consider the following; The congress has fielded a very strong candidate unlike in the previous elections. The JDS candidate Prof Radha Krishna has good reputation as an educationist and quite popular among the teaching and student community.He is going to make very strong in rods in to the so called traditional votes BJP(Middle/Upper middle class).The JDS supremo will not spare any efforts to mobilize maximum votes for his candidate. The other important independent candidate is Mr. Gopinath, erstwhile king of low cost carriers, has the support of many industrialist, IT professional sand host of entrepreneurs. The delimition has also added to the woes of Anantha kumar, wherein a large chunk of his vote bank has been disintergrated. The incumbency factor and lackluster performance of Mr.Anantha kumar during his last tenure.
There are host of independent candidates who are going take away some of BJP's traditional votes.Mr.Radha Krishna and Mr.Gopinath and other independents may not make it big and enter the LS but their presence in the battle will make a big differncce to the chances of Mr. Anantha kumar's victory.
Appeared in DNA NEWS PAPER on 02-04-09
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