Yellapur: The All India Congress Committee on Thursday announced the names of the candidates for 8 of the 15 assembly constituencies, where the bye-elections are scheduled to be held on 5th December, 2019.

The party has announced Bhimanna Naik as the candidate from Yellapur constituency, who is an incumbent Uttara Kannada district Congress Committee President. He was chosen over another major contender Prashant Deshpande, former Revenue Minister RV Deshpande's son. It shall be remembered that Bhimanna had contested in 2018 assembly elections from Sirsi constituency and had lost to Vishweshwar Hegde Kageri, the incumbent speaker of Karnataka Legislative Assembly.

The bye-elections were necessitated after 13 of the party legislators rebelled and resigned in July this year, which led to the fall of Congress-JDS coalition government in the state. The Congress has been faced with selecting the worthy candidates as rebel leaders are likely to be offered tickets to contest the bye-elections by the BJP.

Following is the list of candidates from other constituencies:
• Hirekerur - B H Bhannikod
• Ranebennur - KB Koliwad
• Chikkaballapura - M Anjanappa
• K R Puram - M Narayanaswani
• Mahalaxmi layout - M Shivaraj
• Hoskote - Padmavati Suresh
• Hunsur - H P Manjunath