Bengaluru, March 27 -- Finally, the suspense over the NDA candidate from Mandya Lok Sabha was cleared with JD(S) State President and former CM H.D. Kumaraswamy (HDK) announcing his candidature for the seat here yesterday.

Kumaraswamy held separate meetings with JD(S) core committee, headed by MLA G.T. Devegowda and BJP leaders before officially announcing the names of the candidates for Mandya, Hassan and Kolar (SC) LS Constituencies which have been given to the JD(S) by the BJP as per the seat agreement.

While H.D. Kumaraswamy will be contesting from Mandya, Prajwal Revanna will be seeking re-election from Hassan and Mallesh Babu will contest as NDA candidate from Kolar.

Speaking to media, HDK said that he had taken a tough decision t...