AAP unveils first list of candidates for 2023 Karnataka Assembly Elections | Read here

As Karnataka gears up for the assembly elections, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) released the first list of its candidates on Monday, March 20. As per the released list, former Congress leader and spokesperson Brijesh Kalappa will contest from the Chickpet constituency. Former bureaucrat K Mathai will contest from Shantinagar. Actor Tennis Krishna will fight from Turvekere seat.

It was speculated that the party will announce the names of 120 candidates in its first list but only 80 candidates' name has been confirmed. Recently, the Kejriwal-led regime witnessed a massive setback when the Former Commissioner of Bengaluru and AAP leader Bhaskar Rao joined BJP on March 1. Taking to Twitter AAP Bengaluru shared the list of candidates

Here's the list of AAP candidates

1. Arjun Halagigoudar
2. Shivrayappa Jogin
3. Ramesh Badanur
4. Sampath umar Shetti
5. BM Chikkanagoudar
6. Ramdurg Mallikjan Nadaf
7. Basavaraj S Terdal
8. Vikas Soppin
9. Manjunath Jakkannavar
10. Anekal Doddiah
11. Byadgi MN NAIK
12. Hanumanthappa Kabbar
13. Basavakalyan Deepak Malagar
14. Humnabad Bank Reddy
15. South Nasimuddin Patel
16. Tukaram Narayanrao Hajare
17. Aurad Baburao Adke
18. Dr. Raghavendra Chinchansur
19. Siddharam Apparao Patil
20. Syed Sajjad Ali
21. Gopal R Patil
22. Gangawati Sharanappa Sajjihola
23. Dr. Subashchandra Sambaji
24. Veeresh Kumar Yadav
25. Raja Shamsundar Nayak
26. Shivaputra Gandhal
27. Sangram Narayan Killedh
28. D Shankardasa
29. Srinivas N 
30. Nagaraja H
31. Jagadish B E
32. Govindraju
33. Ganeshappa Durgad
34. Sridhar Patil
35. Tennis Krishna
36. Jayaramaiah
37. Prabhuswamy
38. Sira Shashi Kumar
39. Ramanjanappa N
40. Rajan Gowda H S
41. Agile Yogish
42. Bhadravati Anand
43. Nethtravathi T
44. K Diwakar
45. Vittal Shetty
46. Santhosh Kamath
47. Sumana
48. Daniel
49. Hitendra Naik
50. BC Mahadevaswamy
51. Bommaiah
52. Rajashekar Doddanna
53. Malavika Gubbivani
54. Dharmashree
55. Siddaraju
56. Ravikiran MN
57. Nanjappa Kalegowda
58. Puttaraju Gowda
59. Sharatchandra
60. Shivappa B K
61. Purushothama
62. Gangabylappa B M
63. Madhu Seethappa
64. C Byreddy
65. R Gagana Sukanya
66. Ravishankar M
67. Keerthan Kumar
68. Shanthala Damle 
69. Suman Prashanth
70. Manjunath Naidu
71. Suresh Rathod
72. Mohan Dasari
73. Prakash Nedungadi
74. K Mathai 
75. BT Naganna
76. Dr Ramesh Bellamkonda
77. Brijesh Kalappa
78. Ajay Gowda
79. Srinivas Reddy
80. Sitaram Gundappa

Karnataka Elections 2023

Notably, Karnataka is scheduled to go to Assembly polls in 2023 which could take place in April or early May as the term of the 224-member legislative assembly ends on May 24. A hung assembly was witnessed in the 2018 Karnataka polls. BS Yediyurappa was sworn in as the Chief Minister but had to resign after not managing to clear the majority mark. Later, Congress and JDS formed a government. BS Yediyurappa was again sworn in as CM in 2019 but he was replaced by Basavaraj Bommai in 2021.