Mysuru: Confusion prevailed for sometime during Chief Minister Siddharamaiah’s road show at Tagadur in Varuna Constituency after the Police took a youth said to be the follower of former Minister V. Sreenivasa Prasad into preventive custody. The youth is identified as Prajwal Shashi of Jai Bheem Nagar. Prajwal was standing along with few of his…
CM on Padayatra in Varuna
April 18, 2018CM Siddharamaiah, clad in his white kurtha-lungi, sporting a P-cap and wearing a half-shoe and socks, undertaking padayatra at Varuna Constituency yesterday canvassing for his son Dr. Yathindra who is contesting as a Congress candidate from the Constituency. The CM received a rousing reception from the voters during his poll campaign.
Ticket losers protest in front of CM’s house
April 17, 2018Mysuru: With Chief Minister Siddharamaiah camping in city to take part in poll campaigning at Chamundeshwari and Varuna Assembly segments since yesterday, supporters of Congress leaders from various districts, who were denied the party ticket for the May 12 elections, staged a demonstration in front of the CM’s Ramakrishnanagar residence here this morning Among the…
BJP fields Harshavardhan from N’gud, B. Siddaraju from H.D. Kote and Prof. Mallikarjunappa from Ch’nagar
April 17, 2018Bengaluru: The BJP Central Committee on Monday released its second list of 82 candidates for May 12 Assembly Polls. The BJP had announced 72 candidates, including a majority of sitting MLAs and Ministers from other parties in its first list announced on Apr.8. In the second list, the party has accommodated Sanna Fakirappa, kin of…
Congress has given seven tickets to Bhovi community: Siddharamaiah
April 17, 2018Mysuru: Asserting that the Congress has given seven tickets to Bhovi Community candidates in keeping with its push for social justice, Chief Minster Siddharamaiah has appealed the people to vote for the Congress. Addressing Bhovi community leaders and party workers yesterday at Lingambudhi Palya coming under Chamundeshwari constituency from where he is contesting, Siddharamaiah said…
Brijesh Kalappa questions why he was denied ticket
April 17, 2018Mysuru: Congress leader and senior advocate Brijesh Kalappa took to social media to express his disappointment at being looked over for a ticket from Madikeri. Kalappa, also a Supreme Court advocate and who had recently been appointed as the media coordinator for Congress in Karnataka, wrote a dramatic post on Facebook, alleging that this was…
Allotment of party ticket: Congress workers vandalise party office in Mandya
April 17, 2018Mandya: A day after the Congress announced its list of candidates for 218 Assembly seats, which also included Mandya, supporters of key aspirant Ravikumar (Ganiga Ravi) vandalised the Mandya District Congress office yesterday opposing the candidature of former Minister and actor M.H. Ambarish for Mandya Assembly segment. More than 30 supporters of Ravikumar, who gathered…
Two UoM Professors in soup for supporting Congress
April 17, 2018Mysuru: Two professors of the University of Mysore who allegedly took part in the campaigning organised recently on behalf of the Congress party have landed in soup for violation of norms. Prof. B.P. Mahesh Chandra Guru of the Department of Mass Communication and Journalism and Prof. Aravind Malagathi of Kuvempu Institute of Kannada Studies (KIKS)…
One candidate files nomination on Day-1
April 17, 2018Mysuru: Padmanabha Rao, a resident of Ramabai Nagar and an Independent candidate from Chamundeshwari Constituency, is the first candidate to file one set of nomination papers with the Returning Officer at Mini Vidhana Soudha here this morning in the run up for the 2018 Assembly polls scheduled for May 12. Returning Officers (RO) of all…
IPS Officers from Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh appointed as Police Observers in Mysuru
April 17, 2018Mysuru: The Election Commission has appointed two IPS officers from Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh to keep tab on the security arrangements for the ensuing Assembly polls in the district for which the polling will take place on May 12. While Yogesh Deshmukh, a 1995-batch IPS Officer from Madhya Pradesh has been given the task…
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