JD(S) youth wing president Nikhil Kumaraswamy leads campaign targeting 2028 polls

JD(S) youth wing president Nikhil Kumaraswamy has started the ‘Raitha Swabhimana Yatre’ campaign from Chief Minister D K Shivakumar’s Kanakapura constituency on Monday. The march is aimed at the 2028 Legislative Assembly election, and Nikhil aims to contest from Ramanagara, where he previously lost in 2023. Nikhil has also been involved in campaigns regarding farmers’ issues, including a three-day march from Bidadi to Bengaluru, and launched a social media campaign, ‘Nothing NICE’, against the NICE project.