Kumaraswamy changes complexion of battle against Moily

Former Minister Bache Gowda is now the BJP candidate.  Moily also carried the outsider tag in the last elections but pulled off a victory by a margin of nearly 51,000 votes.

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal has taken his anti-corruption battle against Moily to his home turf by holding a roadshow and campaigning against him in Chikkaballapur during his recent visit to the state.  

During his short run as Chief Minister of Delhi, Kejriwal had ordered filing of an FIR against Moily, former minister Murli Deora and RIL chief Mukesh Ambani for alleged collusion in the hike in prices of natural gas from KG basin.  

Moily has, however, called Kejriwal “ignorant” and said he did not know how government functions, adding that fixing of price of petroleum products is done as per expert advice. 

Sounding pretty confident of repeating his success, Moily told PTI here that the constituency was a traditional bastion of the Congress since 1977, except in 1996.