<p>Bengaluru: The <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/congress">Congress </a>on Sunday released its list of seven candidates for the biennial <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/mlc-elections">MLC elections</a> on June 13.</p>.<p>The elections were necessitated due to the retirement of 11 members on June 17.</p>.<p>As expected, the Congress has fielded Karnataka Science and Technology Minister N S Boseraju and Chief Minister Siddaramaiah's son Dr Yathindra Siddaramaiah.</p>.<p>The other candidates are Vasanth Kumar, K Govindraj, lvan D'Souza, Bilkis Bano and Jagdev Guttedar.</p>.Woman kidnap case: SIT searching for Bhavani Revanna, mother of rape-accuse Prajwal.<p>The party also announced Basanagouda Badarli for the forthcoming MLC byelection for a seat that fell vacant owing to the resignation of former chief minister Jagadish Shettar, who joined the Congress briefly after he rebelled against the BJP when he was denied a ticket in the 2023 assembly election.</p>.<p>"The election dates to fill that post have not been announced yet but our party has declared him as our candidate whenever the election takes place," a Congress leader told <em>PTI</em>.</p>.NGT asks MSCL to halt waterfront project in Mangaluru.<p>Shettar contested the assembly election in 2023 on a Congress ticket and after his defeat, his new home rewarded him with an MLC seat.</p>.<p>Earlier this year, he went back to his parent organisation and is contesting the Lok Sabha election on a BJP ticket from Belgaum (Belagavi) constituency against Congress's Mrinal Hebbalkar, who is the son of Women and Child Development Minister Laxmi Hebbalkar. </p>
<p>Bengaluru: The <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/congress">Congress </a>on Sunday released its list of seven candidates for the biennial <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/mlc-elections">MLC elections</a> on June 13.</p>.<p>The elections were necessitated due to the retirement of 11 members on June 17.</p>.<p>As expected, the Congress has fielded Karnataka Science and Technology Minister N S Boseraju and Chief Minister Siddaramaiah's son Dr Yathindra Siddaramaiah.</p>.<p>The other candidates are Vasanth Kumar, K Govindraj, lvan D'Souza, Bilkis Bano and Jagdev Guttedar.</p>.Woman kidnap case: SIT searching for Bhavani Revanna, mother of rape-accuse Prajwal.<p>The party also announced Basanagouda Badarli for the forthcoming MLC byelection for a seat that fell vacant owing to the resignation of former chief minister Jagadish Shettar, who joined the Congress briefly after he rebelled against the BJP when he was denied a ticket in the 2023 assembly election.</p>.<p>"The election dates to fill that post have not been announced yet but our party has declared him as our candidate whenever the election takes place," a Congress leader told <em>PTI</em>.</p>.NGT asks MSCL to halt waterfront project in Mangaluru.<p>Shettar contested the assembly election in 2023 on a Congress ticket and after his defeat, his new home rewarded him with an MLC seat.</p>.<p>Earlier this year, he went back to his parent organisation and is contesting the Lok Sabha election on a BJP ticket from Belgaum (Belagavi) constituency against Congress's Mrinal Hebbalkar, who is the son of Women and Child Development Minister Laxmi Hebbalkar. </p>