With leaders from Karnataka state Congress  demanding party national president Rahul Gandhi to contest from Karnataka , all eyes are on whether the Congress President will make up his mind to contest from Bengaluru Central . On Friday after the Congress-JDS co-ordination committee chairman and former Chief Minister Siddaramaiah took to Twitter and urged the Congress party chief to face polls in Karnataka , partymen echoed the sentiment with several leaders taking to Social media appealing to Rahul Gandhi.

His tweet read, “Karnataka has always supported & encouraged @INCIndia leaders. It has been proved in case of Smt. Indira ji & Smt. Sonia ji. We also want our next Prime Minister of India Shri. @RahulGandhi to contest from Karnataka & herald new developmental paradigm. #RaGaFromKarnataka.”Minutes before Siddaramaiah took to Twitter to demand Rahul to contest from Karnataka, legislators from both Congress and JDS whose constituencies are in Bengaluru North Lok Sabha gathered to sketch strategies for elections.

State Minister Krishna Byregowda, JDS MLA Gopalaiah, Congress’s ST Somashekhar, Manjunath, MLA’s Byrathi Suresh and Byrathi Basavaraj participated in the meeting. The legislators have decided to work things together and conquer victory in the constituency.

After the meet, Krishna Byregowda addressed the gathering and said that the legislators from Bengaluru North constituency anonymously decided to work for former Prime Minister and JDS supremo HD Deve Gowda’s victory if the former PM decides to face elections from the constituency.

“We will make sure HD Deve Gowda will win without any hassle from Bengaluru North if he contests elections from here. But the party workers are demanding our national president Rahul Gandhi ji to contest elections from Karnataka. We welcome Rahul Gandhi to fight election from Bengaluru . The demand among party workers are mounting up and in North constituency Congress has more number of MLAs,” Byregowda said.

Presently, former Chief Minister and Union Minister DV Sadananda Gowda holds the Bengaluru North constituency. With the demand growing Rahul Gandhi’s two day visit to Karnataka is likely to clear the air on the issue. It maybe recalled that Sonia Gandhi had contested Bellary in 1999 and before that Indira Gandhi had contested in 1978 from Chikkamagalur constituency.