Bengaluru: With the May 12 Assembly Polls fast approaching, Congress leaders are said to be exhorting pressure on Priyanka Gandhi, sister of All India Congress Committee (AICC) President Rahul Gandhi, to campaign in the State. Some top Congress leaders who met Chief Minister Siddharamaiah and KPCC President Dr. G. Parameshwara, have urged them to convince…
HDK says Bhavani Revanna’s remark was not against MLA
April 24, 2018Mysuru: State JD(S) President and former CM H.D. Kumaraswamy (HDK) has maintained that party leader Bhavani Revanna’s remark in a video was not aimed at defeating K.R. Nagar MLA S.R. Mahesh and the remark was in fact a call to defeat father-son duo. Making a reference to Bhavani Revanna’s remark which went viral a few…
Stones pelted at BJP office in city
April 24, 2018Mysuru: In the wake of BJP denying ticket to party State President B.S. Yeddyurappa’s son B.Y. Vijayendra to contest from Varuna, irate party workers threw stones at the party office in Nazarbad this afternoon. Angry party workers, shouting slogans in support of Vijayendra, pelted stones at the portraits of leaders that were pasted outside the…
Congress to release poll manifesto on Apr.27
April 24, 2018Bengaluru: The State Congress will release its manifesto for the upcoming Assembly polls on Apr.27. The manifesto, said to be containing more than 200 promises, will be released simultaneously at different places by top leaders of the party. While AICC President Rahul Gandhi, who will be campaigning in the State, will release the manifesto at…
Boat Burners of BJP
April 24, 2018BJP will win Karnataka only if Amit Shah and B.S. Yeddyurappa work together to the exclusion of others with ambition Are we going to see in Varuna Constituency a replay of 2006 by-election in Chamundeshwari Constituency where Siddharamaiah contested as Congress candidate after quitting JD(S) and also his MLA seat? One S. Shivabasappa, a political…
Varuna: BJP High Command withholds B.Y. Vijayendra’s nomination
April 23, 2018Nanjangud: Even as the BJP top brass is yet to officially announce its final list of 11 candidates, including the high-profile Varuna Assembly Constituency, from where Chief Minister Siddharamaiah’s son Dr. Yathindra is contesting as the Congress candidate, BJP probable candidate B.Y. Vijayendra, younger son of State BJP President B.S. Yeddyurappa, who was scheduled to…
BJP NR candidate Sandesh Swamy files nomination papers
April 23, 2018Mysuru: – S. Satish (Sandesh Swamy), who recently quit JD(S), filed his nomination papers as BJP candidate from N.R. Constituency this morning. Sandesh Swamy, who came in a mammoth procession after performing puja at Huliyamma Temple in Kyathamanahalli, submitted his papers to Returning Officer (RO) R.K. Kantharaj at Chamundi Vihar Stadium. Sandesh Swamy was accompanied…
Sr. Advocate H.S. Chandramouli misses B-Form
April 23, 2018Madikeri: A week after it released the list of party candidates for 218 Assembly seats, the Congress on Sunday changed the candidature of its Madikeri nominee. The party replaced senior advocate H.S. Chandramouli with K.P. Chandrakala following objections against him for being part of the legal team of PNB scam accused Mehul Choksi. Chandrakala, a…
Voters will decide on CM, not Siddharamaiah or Yeddyurappa: HDK
April 23, 2018Mysuru: The five crore people of the State will decide who is going to be the Chief Minister of Karnataka in the May 12 Assembly election, not the current Chief Minister Siddharamaiah or the former Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa, said JD(S) State President and former Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy (HDK). He was reacting to questions…
N.A. Haris figures in Congress final list
April 23, 2018Bengaluru: The Congress on Sunday released its final list of candidates, bringing in change of candidates in 6 Assembly Constituencies, including Badami from where Chief Minister Siddharamaiah will contest. The Congress, brushing aside public outcry that erupted following the pub brawl involving his son Mohammad Nalpad, has fielded two-time MLA N.A. Haris from Shanthinagar Assembly…
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