Dharwad: My name should have come up in the first list. The national president called. So I am going to Delhi today. Jagadish Shettar, former Chief Minister and sitting MLA from Hubballi-Dharwad Central constituency, said he would go and discuss the issue.

Speaking at his residence in the city, he said he called him in the evening and national president asked me to come. So I’m going, shettar said, “Don’t discuss what’s going to happen right now. I am going to Delhi, let’s have an open discussion.

I said my stand, I’m sure I’ll get a ticket I will compete. I had never contacted anyone at the Delhi level. Now he only asked me to come. Shettar expressed displeasure over not having his name in the first list saying he would go today.