BANGALORE: The Chief Minister of Karnataka, Veerendra Patil, said he was unaware of any proposal to put up former federal home (interior) minister Buta Singh from Karnataka in the March 29 elections to the upper house of parliament.

“It is for the party high command to decide,” the chief minister told reporters when asked whether he favored an outsider contesting from the state,

Article extracted from this publication >> March 16, 1990