PM to Launch BJP's Poll Campaign in Karnataka on Saturday with Rally in Cong Prez Kharge''s Home Turf

Prime Minister Narendra Modi would formally kickstart the BJP’s Lok Sabha election campaign in Karnataka on Saturday from CongressCongressCongress President M Mallikarjun Kharge’s home turf — Kalaburagi.

He is scheduled to address a mega public meeting at the district headquarters town’s N V Ground at 2 pm.

Kharge, who had represented Kalaburagi (Gulbarga Lok Sabha segment) twice in the past, lost to BJP’s Umesh Jadhav by a margin of 95,452 votes in the 2019 general elections here — the octogenarian leader’s first electoral loss in his political life spanning several decades.