Amid the ongoing Karnataka elections buzz, filled with campaigns and rallies of various political parties, star politician’s roadshows, there’s a candidate who has done something different than usual and is now gathering huge praise and support across the internet.

An independent youth candidate who wishes to fight the upcoming state assembly elections scheduled for 10^th May, has deposited his candidature money of Rs 10,000 entirely in one rupee coins, the video of which is now getting viral on social media.

The candidate collected all this money from the people across the constituency reaching out door to door.

The name of the candidate is Yankappa who is going to fight the election from Yadgir constituency as an independent candidate.

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The deposit fee that a candidate has to deposit for election is Rs 10,000 for this election. Yankappa filed his nomination on Tuesday in the local Tehsildar’s office and the officers took two hours to count the coins deposited by Yankappa.

While filing his nomination, Yankappa had a poster along with him with a thread tied around his neck and the poster had the images of ancient social reformers and poets from Karnataka, Swami Vivekananda, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar and an image of the preamble of the Indian constitution.

There was some text also written in the poster in Kannada language.

Yakappa has done his graduation in arts from Gulbarga University in Kalaburagi district of Karnataka and according to the assets he declared while his nomination, his total net worth is Rs 60,000 and his father has around one acre land.

The Karnataka elections has got all the major political parties tied up into action along with their leaders taking up campaigns and addressing rallies starting from Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah to Mallikarjun Kharge, Rahul Gandhi, H.D. Devegowda and a long long list that includes heavyweight leaders from the state and Delhi.

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Top BJP leader and former Karnataka Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar joined the Congress on Monday after being denied a ticket by the saffron party in next month’s Assembly elections in the state.

According to reports, Shettar, upset over not being chosen as a candidate for the May 10 polls, resigned as MLA and quit the BJP on Sunday and later flew in from Hubballi to Bengaluru in a special chopper and had a meeting with top Congress leaders late last night.

Reports said that Karnataka Congress chief DK Shivakumar, party general secretary Randeep Singh Surjewala, and for CM Siddaraimah were present in the meeting.

Shettar, a prominent Lingayat leader, joined the Congress on Monday morning in the presence of party chief Mallikarjun Kharge, state party president, DK Shivakumar, general secretary Randeep Singh Surjewala, and Congress MP KC Venugopal.

Talking to reporters after joining the Congress, Jagadish Shettar said he was “shocked” that the BJP denied him a ticket as he’s a senior leader.

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The Lingayat leader said that no one from the BJP talked to him or tried to convince him of not to leave the party adding that he was “forcefully” thrown out of the party and now has joined the Congress by accepting the grand old party’s principles and ideology.

Speaking about Shettar joining the Congress, Mallikarjun Kharge said the former CM is a “non-controversial” whose induction into the party ranks will serve as an enthusiasm booster for the Congress.

Kharge said Jagadish Shettar is someone who is capable of winning seats for the party he’s aligned with.

Congress veteran Siddaramaiah called Shettar “decent and secular” politician who always stood with the BJP as an honest party worker.

Last month, Randeep Surjewala had predicted an “exodus” of top leaders from the BJP ahead of the Karnataka Assembly elections, claiming that BJP top brass will be leaving the saffron party in the coming days.

Elections are scheduled to be held in Karnataka on May 10 and the results will be declared on May 13.

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On Sunday, former Congress President Rahul Gandhi has arrived in poll bound Karnataka for a two-day visit. Gandhi is addressing a rally in Kolar, Karnataka, the same place where the defamation episode kickstarted in 2019 that led to Gandhi’s disqualification as a Member of Parliament.

The election battle in Karnataka is intensifying, Rahul Gandhi’s rally, finally after a lot of changes in the date for Kolar, is now underway with the senior Congress leader addressing the gathering.

Kolar, is the same place where Rahul Gandhi while campaigning in the 2019 general elections allegedly delivered Modi surname remark. The high voltage political drama has been in action since last month after the Surat court convicted Gandhi for a two year jail term in the defamation suit filed against him for his surname remark.

The Kolar rally is the mark of Gandhi’s official entrance into Congress’s campaign for the Karnataka assembly elections.

Gandhi makes a scathing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi saying that Modi can give thousands of crores to Adani but he has nothing to provide for the poor citizens of this country.

He said that whenever he raised questions to the governement demanding an explaination of PM Modi’s relations with Gautam Adani, his mic was turned off.

Gandhi also made big election promises during his speech, reaching out to the youths, he said Rs 3000 would be provided to graduates every month and Rs 1500 to diploma holders if his party is voted to power, he also added that all these will be brought into implementation in the first cabinet meeting after the formation of the government.

After the Surat court conviction, Rahul Gandhi, who formerly represented Wayanad constituency, Kerala in Lok Sabha was disqualified as a Member of Parliament which led to the opposition constantly attacking at the Centre ruled government and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.