Mysuru: The Election Commission and the District Administration are setting up special ‘Sakhi’, or ‘Pink’, polling booths for the upcoming Karnataka Assembly Election. These special booths will be staffed entirely by women — from the presiding officers to the micro-observers and security personnel. This is being done to attract more women to vote. There will…
Campaigning gains momentum in Mysuru
May 6, 2018Mysuru: With the poll date fast approaching, candidates from all political parties and also independents, in the three Assembly segments of the city, have stepped up campaigning. Yesterday, K.R. BJP candidate S.A. Ramdas continued his brisk campaigning covering Vidyaranyapuram, Chamundipuram and surrounding areas. He was accompanied by Corporator M.V. Ramprasad and other leaders. Speaking to…
Former Minister Sreenivasa Prasad seeks votes for his son-in-law in Nanjangud
May 6, 2018Nanjangud: Former Union Minister and State BJP Vice-President V. Sreenivasa Prasad predicted that in the Assembly elections on May 12, BJP is going to sweep to power and State BJP President B.S. Yeddyurappa will be the Chief Minister. Prasad was speaking after going on a door-to-door campaign in Shankarapura, Sreerampura, Anandpura Layouts along with hundreds…
Model Code of Conduct Violation: Rs.8 lakh cash seized from Dist. Congress President brother’s car
May 6, 2018Periyapatna: Election officials, led by Tahsildar Govindaraju and Sectoral Magistrate Krishna, along with the Police and Paramilitary Forces, have seized Rs.8 lakh cash yesterday, which was allegedly being transported in a car belonging to Mysuru District Congress President Dr. B.J. Vijaykumar’s brother B.J. Basavaraju to be distributed among the voters. The driver of the car,…
Violence in Chamundeshwari: Four injured
May 6, 2018Mysuru: Four Congress party workers were allegedly attacked by a group late last night at Naganahalli village on the Mysuru-Bengaluru Highway near Siddalingapura. This is the first such violence reported from the Chamundeshwari Constituency, Mysuru, after the poll dates were announced on Mar. 27 till date. The incident took place at Naganahalli coming under high-profile…
CPI to extend support to Cong.
May 6, 2018Mysuru” As a mark of solidarity with secular forces, the CPI has extended support to the Congress in the Assembly polls. Announcing this at a press meet here this morning, CPI (Communist Party of India) Secretary H.R. Seshadri said that the party is contesting in - Sira in Tumakuru district and Kudligi in Ballari district…
A one-horse race in Varuna: Cake-walk for Dr. Yathindra
May 6, 2018Last Friday, 4th May 2018, I gave a sprinter’s chase to Dr. Yathindra, son of Chief Minister Siddharamaiah, who was on a roller-coaster election tour of his Varuna Constituency as a Congress party candidate. A medical doctor by profession, he was brought into politics by his father after the sad and untimely demise of his…
Amit Shah skips Varuna show
May 5, 2018Mysuru: In a last-minute change in his schedule, BJP National President Amit Shah today cancelled his visit to the core areas of Varuna Constituency where he was supposed to hold a public rally and a road show. He instead chose to take a chopper from Bengaluru HAL Airport to Mysore Airport at Mandakalli and from…
BJP’s poll manifesto promises farm loan waiver up to Rs.1 lakh
May 5, 2018ACB will be abolished Cow slaughter to be banned Sanitary pads for poor women STF to end sand, land & illegal mining mafia Free accident insurance up to Rs.2 lakh Rs.100 crore to be earmarked for ‘Raitha Bandhu’ student scholarship Rs.25,000 cash and 3 gram gold thali for BPL family bride Free laptop for college…
‘Alliance with JD(S) doesn’t arise as Cong. will return to power’
May 5, 2018Bengaluru: Energy Minister D.K. Shivakumar has dismissed suggestions that Congress President Rahul Gandhi, by calling JD(S) as the ‘B Team’ of BJP, had closed the doors of an alliance with JD(S) in case of a fractured mandate. The Minister, however, was quick to insist that such an eventuality would not arise as there would be…
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