Chief Minister Siddaramaiah announced that he would be contesting his next assembly elections from Chamundeshwari in Mysuru. Addressing Congress workers in Chamundeshwari, he said, "I became a taluk board member in 1978. It was Chamundeshwari which sent me to the Assembly the first time in 1983 as an independent and again in 2006, when I resigned after I was expelled from JD(S). You elected me five times from 1983 to 2006 and if I had lost twice in between, it was not because of you but because of my mistakes and divisions in the Janata Party. In 2008 I had to contest from Varuna because Revansiddaiah who was supposed to contest there, joined BJP. I have become CM today because of you. I want my last election to be from here to make Chamundeshwari a model constituency to repay you.”
