Ms Kusuma is said to have agreed to contest the  bypoll and has  begun preparing for it on the direction of former CM Siddaramaiah.

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â€œMy brother is getting involved in unnecessary political activity. I have advised him and appealed to him not to quit the Congress\'\'.

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