Giving a sportive touch to the ongoing awareness campaign on voting, Systematic Voters Education and Electoral Participation (SVEEP) Committee, together with Zilla Panchayat (ZP), Taluk Panchayat (TP), and Department of Youth Empowerment and Sports (DYES), had organised a Kabaddi Tournament for male employees of Gram Panchayats (GPs) of the taluk at Chamundi Vihar Stadium here…
JD(S) promises 100% loan waiver to farmers
May 8, 2018Bengaluru: The JD(S), touted as a potential kingmaker in the Karnataka elections, released its manifesto yesterday. The party, headed by former Prime Minister H.D. Deve Gowda, has promised 100% loan waivers to farmers within 24 hours if elected to power. The loan waiver will include all agricultural loans including crop loans, horticulture loans, and medium-term…
JD(S) Supremo holds Road Show for Prof. K.S. Rangappa in Chamaraja
May 8, 2018Mysuru: JD(S) supremo and former Prime Minister H.D. Deve Gowda yesterday held Road Shows in different parts of Chamaraja constituency to drum up support for the party candidate Prof. K.S. Rangappa. Deve Gowda commenced his mega Road Show from Subramanyeshwara Temple in Hebbal, campaigned in M.G. Koppal, Abhishek Circle, Surya Bakery, Kumbarakoppal, Tollgate, Brindavan Extension,…
Journalist manhandled, illegally confined by Minister Sait’s men
May 8, 2018Mysuru: Journalist Shivendra Urs, a stringer with The Times of India, Mysuru, was manhandled and illegally confined, allegedly by the supporters of Karnataka’s Primary and Secondary Education Minister Tanveer Sait, when he was covering the Minister’s election campaign at Gayathripuram, under Narasimharaja Assembly segment in city yesterday morning. In a complaint to the Police and…
Election taunts Chief Minister Siddharamaiah sends Defamation notice to Prime Minister
May 8, 2018Bengaluru: Chief Minister Siddharamaiah has sent notice for defamation to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP National President Amit Shah and State BJP President and former Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa for accusing him of corruption and has demanded a public apology. Siddharamaiah has accused the top BJP leaders of making “baseless, false and untrue remarks” about…
“Development cannot take place unless ‘Sidda Rupaiah Sarkar’ is voted out”
May 8, 2018Somwarpet: Claiming that there can be no development unless ‘Sidda Rupaiah Sarkar’ (Corrupt Congress Government) is voted out, Union Minister Smriti Irani has said that the Congress Government lacked the will to resolve agrarian and other burning issues. Speaking at a BJP rally organised here yesterday, Smriti said that the Congress had no idea of…
Deve Gowda dismisses pre-poll surveys
May 8, 2018Mysuru: Asserting that his party will come to power on its own in the Assembly polls, JD(S) Supremo and former PM H.D. Deve Gowda has said that the JD(S) will take the support of Independent candidates, who are likely to win over a dozen seats, if the party falls just short of the majority mark….
Government not possible without JD(S)
May 8, 2018Chikkamagaluru: In a departure from the earlier stand that any post-poll alliance was a strict no, former CM and JD(S) State President H.D. Kumaraswamy yesterday said the next government cannot be formed without JD(S) and his party would “speak” to those parties that will implement schemes and programmes in its manifesto. However, he was quick…
Congress High Command will decide on CM: Kharge
May 7, 2018Mysuru: Maintaining that the Congress Chief Ministerial candidate cannot be discussed on streets, Congress leader in the Lok Sabha Mallikarjuna Kharge has said that it is the Congress High Command which will decide the Chief Minister. Kharge was campaigning for K.R. Constituency Congress candidate M.K. Somashekar at Silk Factory Circle on Manandavadi Road here on…
CM confident of victories in Chamundeshwari, Varuna
May 7, 2018Mysuru: Chief Minister Siddharamaiah was in high spirits this morning, as he came out of his residence in T.K. Layout after holding a meeting with the party workers and supporters. The reason was they had expressed confidence of the Congress party’s victories in both Chamundeshwari and Varuna Constituencies. This Joie de vivre he carried while…
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