Karnataka Chief Minister (CM) B S Yediyurappa said that he would be campaigning for the upcoming by-election in the Sira and RR Nagar constituencies. CM said that ‘Earlier I had no plans for going for election campaigns. But When (Congress leader) D K Shivakumar, (Janata Dal Secular leaders), H D Kumaraswamy and H D Deve Gowda have been campaigning; as a chief minister, if I don't attend the election campaigns, it sends a wrong message’. I will campaign today till evening in the Sira constituency and from Saturday I will campaign in RR Nagar,’he added. ‘Once the elections conclude and results are out, I will be going to Delhi and then will expand my Cabinet’ he said regarding the cabinet expansion.
Sira in Tumakuru district, along with Rajarajeshwari Nagar (RR Nagar) segment in the city, will go to bypolls on November 3.