<p>The BJP on Tuesday announced that it has fielded K Narayan, a businessman with an RSS background, for the Rajya Sabha election in Karnataka.</p>.<p>The bypoll for one Rajya Sabha seat is scheduled for December 1.</p>.<p>The seat fell vacant after the death of <a href="http://www.deccanherald.com/state/top-karnataka-stories/newly-elected-rajya-sabha-mp-ashok-gasti-dies-of-covid-19-889094.html" target="_blank">Ashok Gasti</a>. Gasti had contracted Covid-19 within two months of getting elected into the Rajya Sabha, and succumbed at a hospital in Bengaluru on September 17.</p>.<p>Narayan, who is into printing business, belongs to backward-class Devanga Community.</p>.<p>Born in Mangaluru, Narayan is currently settled in Bengaluru.</p>.<p>Narayan did his Primary, High School and College Education at Mangaluru, and shifted to Bengaluru in 1971.</p>
<p>The BJP on Tuesday announced that it has fielded K Narayan, a businessman with an RSS background, for the Rajya Sabha election in Karnataka.</p>.<p>The bypoll for one Rajya Sabha seat is scheduled for December 1.</p>.<p>The seat fell vacant after the death of <a href="http://www.deccanherald.com/state/top-karnataka-stories/newly-elected-rajya-sabha-mp-ashok-gasti-dies-of-covid-19-889094.html" target="_blank">Ashok Gasti</a>. Gasti had contracted Covid-19 within two months of getting elected into the Rajya Sabha, and succumbed at a hospital in Bengaluru on September 17.</p>.<p>Narayan, who is into printing business, belongs to backward-class Devanga Community.</p>.<p>Born in Mangaluru, Narayan is currently settled in Bengaluru.</p>.<p>Narayan did his Primary, High School and College Education at Mangaluru, and shifted to Bengaluru in 1971.</p>
