<p class="title">MLA Shamanur Shivashankarappa announced on Sunday that his son and former minister, S S Mallikarjun, would contest the Lok Sabha elections from the Davangere seat as the candidate of the Congress-JD(S) coalition.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Addressing reporters here, Shivashankarappa said Mallikarjun had expressed his willingness to contest and that the latter would win the election.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Shivashankarappa expressed confidence that the Congress would win the Lok Sabha elections, despite the increase in the ratings of Prime Minister Narendra Modi by 10% in the aftermath of the airstrikes on terror camps in Pakistan.</p>
<p class="title">MLA Shamanur Shivashankarappa announced on Sunday that his son and former minister, S S Mallikarjun, would contest the Lok Sabha elections from the Davangere seat as the candidate of the Congress-JD(S) coalition.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Addressing reporters here, Shivashankarappa said Mallikarjun had expressed his willingness to contest and that the latter would win the election.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Shivashankarappa expressed confidence that the Congress would win the Lok Sabha elections, despite the increase in the ratings of Prime Minister Narendra Modi by 10% in the aftermath of the airstrikes on terror camps in Pakistan.</p>