Rtd IAS officer, techies in AAP's first list

The Aam Adami Party (AAP) on Tuesday released its first list of 18 candidates for the ensuing Assembly elections.

The list of candidates comprises a retired IAS officer, IT professionals, aeronautical engineer, professors, lawyers, farmers and autorickshaw drivers. Pankaj Gupta, AAP general secretary, said the candidates have been chosen based on 3Cs: non-corrupt, non-communal and non-criminal. Renuka Vishwanathan, a retired IAS officer of the 1971 batch, will contest from Shanthinagar constituency in Bengaluru, presently repersented by N A Haris of the Congress in the Assembly.

Prithvi Reddy, engineer-entrepreneur will contest from Sarvagnanagar against Bengaluru Development Minister K J George. Chandrakanth Revankar, transport services businessman will fight from Shikaripura. The party will field Santosh Nargund, aeronautical engineer from Hubballi- Dharwad Central against former chief minister Jagadish Shettar and Ayub Khan, an autorickshaw driver from Shivajinagar, Gupta said.

The other candidates are: Mohan Dasari (C V Ramanagar); Lingaraj Urs, software professional and grandson of former chief minister D Devaraj Urs (KR Puram); Raghavendra Thane (Hebbal); Sharanappa (Gangavathi); Balasaheb Rao (Kagwad); Malavika Gubbivani (Chamaraja); Raghavendra K L (Davangere South); S G Sitharam (Basavanagudi); Siddagangaiah R, (Pulakeshinagar); Syed Asad Abbas (BTM Layout); Ravi Kumar (Bhadravathi); Deepak Malagar (Basavakalyan).