Ahead of elections Congress and BJP are trading barbs on each other over internal bickering within the both parties in ticket distribution and seat allocation.
Karnataka is scheduled to go for polls on May 10 and last date for nomination has been kept April 20.
The Congress has already announced candidates for 166 seats. So far BJP has not come out with its list.
According to the report in NDTV, Congress spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala claimed that senior BJP ministers, including Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai, are keen to change their seats to negate anti-incumbency.
In response, the report mentioned, BJP Rajya Sabha MP Lahar Singh Siroya took to Twitter and focussed on the confusion over seats for former Chief Minister Siddaramiah.
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Lahar Singh Siroya in his tweet claimed that Siddaramiah was “running away" from the Badami seat that he won in 2018 and the Chamundeshwari seat which he lost to the Janata Dal (Secular) in the same election.
He also took on Rahul Gandhi and Surjewala himself, mentioned the report.
The veteran politician and former state CM Siddaramiah has been demanding a second seat for himself.
He had initially declared he would contest from the Kolar seat, but later chose the Varuna seat, said the report.
“Now, he wants to contest from Kolar as well, but the party has maintained a one seat per candidate policy,” the report said.
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The Congress is expected to release more names in the coming days, the BJP's first list is expected in the next couple of days according to party leaders, the report said.
“There has been hectic lobbying for seats in the ruling party,” the report said.
