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Surya's candidature may raise a lot of eyebrows and is likely to divide the Bengaluru South party cadre. BENGALURU: In a late-night development, the BJP on Monday decided to field L S Tejasvi Surya , nephew of Basavanagudi MLA Ravi Subramanya, from Bengaluru South constituency.A "rising" star in the BJP ranks, Surya, 28, is Karnataka BJP Youth Wing secretary. He will take on Union minister D V Sadananda Gowda, who is seeking a second term.Congress leaders Siddaramaiah, G Parameshwara, D K Shivakumar, Dinesh Gundurao and other senior party leaders finalized Byregowda's name. Surya will take on Congress veteran B K Hariprasad.Earlier, supporters of Tejaswini Ananth Kumar staged a dharna outside her V V Puram home over a likely denial of ticket. BJP also announced the name of former MLA Ashwath Narayan from Bengaluru Rural where he will face D K Suresh, brother of Congress troubleshooter D K Shivakumar.Meanwhile, Congress decided to field rural development minister Krishna Byregowda for Bengaluru North LS constituency, returned by coalition partner Janata Dal(S)..