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Karnataka Energy Minister HD Revanna’s crass remark about actor Sumalatha -- the wife of late Congress MP and actor Ambareesh -- questioning her foray into politics just months after her husband's demise, is yet another example of how women in politics are treated by their male counterparts. Speaking to reporters in New Delhi, HD Revanna said, “It’s not even been a month since her husband died and instead of grieving, she is already displaying political ambitions and is saying she wants to contest elections. See what level they have stooped to.”

Sumalatha is going to be contesting as an independent candidate in the upcoming 2019 general elections from the Mandya Lok Sabha segment. Earlier, she approached the Congress and sought a ticket from the Congress-JD(S) alliance to contest from Mandya. This put the Congress in a spot as the pre-poll alliance with JD(S) ensured that a JD(S) candidate would contest from Mandya, and not a Congress one.

Revanna added that the Mandya seat was for a JD(S) candidate and in order to fight Sumalatha, the JD(S) had no choice but pick Nikhil Gowda (CM Kumaraswamy's son) to contest from Mandya as Sumalatha was adamant that she would not contest from any other segment. “We were planning on fielding one of our workers from Mandya but she said she will contest only from Mandya. So, we changed our plan and decided to bring in Nikhil,” Revanna added.

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