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Chamarajanagar: The Bahujan Samaj Party ( BSP ), which has a strong base in Chamarajanagar district, has finalised its candidates for Chamarajanagar and Chikkaballapur Lok Sabha seats. “He has good network in Mysuru and Chamarajanagar and in fact, in south Karnataka,” Mahesh said.BSP state president A Hariram said the names for the rest 26 seats would be announced in a day or two. He works as a tutor at various IAS training centres in New Delhi, Hyderabad and Bengaluru. He had secured 7,752 votes in assembly polls. He teaches Kannada literature to aspirants of competitive exams.In the previous election, BSP candidate Shivamallu got 38,000 votes.Former minister and Kollegala MLA N Mahesh, the lone BSP legislator in Karnataka, said Shivakumar is an active party worker and he had been associated with his party for the past two decades..