Today hundreds of our anxious well wishers & BJP karyakartas visited our house. I told them AnanthKumar ji always… https://t.co/XAXhU7eMFN — Chowkidar Tejaswini AnanthKumar (@Tej_AnanthKumar) 1553508995000

BENGALURU: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), in its efforts to deny further growth of legacies in Karnataka appears to have kept the candidatures of the prestigious Bengaluru South constituency, rural and three others on hold in the state.The last day for filing nominations is Tuesday till 5 pm for the first phase, of which Bengaluru South and rural will also be going to polls.On Monday late evening, the front runner for Bengaluru south and wife of late Union minister H N Ananth Kumar, Tejaswini Ananth Kumar appeared to indicate that she had virtually given up on the ticket.“Today hundreds of our anxious well wishers and BJP karyakartas visited our house. I told them AnanthKumar ji always believed in: Nation First, Party Next, I Last. On the same lines let's all abide by the decision of the central leadership and work towards #NamoAgain,” tweeted Tejaswini.According to sources in the party, in November 2018 when prime minister Narendra Modi arrived to lay a wreath at former union minister H N Ananth Kumar’s home, he confided in the state leadership and said: “Ab Ananth Kumar ka (political lineage) inke saath hi jaane do.” (Let the political lineage of Kumar end with him.)Despite this, the party state leadership recommended the name of Tejaswini, considering none other to be “eligible” to succeed Kumar’s legacy in Bengaluru south, a “safe” constituency.However, sources said the central leadership took exception to this with PM Modi personally against encouraging another lineage in the state BJP.“The prime reason for holding back on Tejaswini’s candidature and that of four other constituencies appears to be the same. To end political dynasty rule,” said one senior state leader.The BJP leader quoted the example of the saffron party founder L K Advani’s daughter Pratibha, for whom the nanogenrian political stalwart had said he will not seek.“When Advani himself denied a ticket to his daughter, the central leadership appears to be firm on cutting all dynastic ties in the country,” said the BJP leader.It is said now that the party is looking at technocrats from the segment and even local Brahmin MLAs to fill the shoes of Kumar.Apart from Tejaswini, the trouble of dynasty has also plagued the seats of Chikkodi, Bengaluru Rural and Koppal.In Chikkodi, the party is caught between the brother of sitting legislator Umesh Katti, Ramesh, and Annasaheb Jolle, wife of its sitting MLA Shashikala.In Bengaluru Rural, the state unit had proposed the name of C P Yogeeshwara or his daughter Nisha. However, even here the party was forced to retract as the candidates were not ready to spend a rupee on campaigning for the polls.For Koppal, the party appears to be in a quandary after it is said national president Amit Shah had taken it “personally” when the sitting MP Karadi Sanganna tried to “blackmail” the central leadership to secure a ticket for his son from Koppal.“Arrey aisen aadmi ko kyu ticket dein?” Shah is said to have posed a questioned to Yeddyurappa and others.In Raichur, the party is still not comfortable with Amaresh Naik.