Mysuru: State JD(S) President and former Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy (HDK) kicked off the party’s poll campaign titled ‘Kumara Parva-2018’ atop Chamundi Hill this morning thus sounding the bugle for the 2018 electoral battle. Kumaraswamy, accompanied by his wife Anitha Kumaraswamy, performed puja at Chamundeshwari Temple at around 8.30 am. Earlier in the day, former…
Bengaluru: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) National President Amit Shah yesterday flagged off the Nava Karnataka Nirmana Parivarthana Yatra, a 75-day tour across Karnataka led by its State President B.S. Yeddyurappa, kicking off the party’s campaign for Assembly elections due in 2018. The rally, in which other senior State and Central leaders will also participate, started…
Mysuru: State BJP President B.S. Yeddyurappa yesterday used the platform of farmers convention organised by his party at Maharaja’s College Grounds here to hit out at Chief Minister Siddharamaiah. Lashing out at the Congress Government, Yeddyurappa termed the CM as a ‘Commission Agent.’ Accusing Siddharamaiah of getting commission for every project that he introduces in…
Bengaluru: Elections to the Karnataka Legislative Assembly will be held in the first week of May 2018 and the tentative date of voting is May 2, a Tuesday. The notification of the elections is likely to be issued on March 17, 2018. Though no official announcement has been made to this effect by the Election…
Mysuru: Maintaining that he was not at all scared about his opponents coming together to defeat him in Chamundeshwari Constituency in the 2018 polls, Chief Minister Siddharamaiah has said that he won the Chamundeshari bypolls in 2006 even though all his opponents came together. Speaking to press persons upon his arrival at Mysore Airport in…
Mysuru: With Chief Minister Siddharamaiah announcing that he will contest from Chamundeshwari Constituency in the 2018 Assembly Polls, senior JD(S) leaders G.T Devegowda (GTD) and A.H. Vishwanath (AHV) visited the house of former Minister and State BJP Vice-President V. Sreenivasa Prasad at Jayalakshmipuram here this morning. The two leaders held a closed door meeting with…
Mysuru: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is reportedly considering fielding former Director General and Inspector General of Police, Shankar Bidari from Varuna Assembly constituency in Mysuru district to take on Chief Minister Siddharamaiah’s son, Dr. Yathindra Siddharamaiah, a political novice who is set to make his political debut from the constituency in the 2018 Assembly…
Mysuru: Chief Minister Siddharamaiah said that the 2018 Assembly polls will be the last election he will contest in his lifetime. Addressing a party workers convention in Hootagalli, Chamundeshwari Assembly Constituency yesterday, the Chief Minister said that he had reserved the last election of his life to the constituency which gave him a political rebirth….
Bengaluru: In a surprise development, the BJP National leadership on Saturday appointed Union Minister D.V. Sadananda Gowda (DVS) to head the State BJP’s Conventional Campaign Committee. The Committee will have 30 members who include Opposition leader Jagadish Shettar, Opposition leader in Legislative Council K.S. Eshwarappa, MP Shobha Karandlaje, former Dy. CM R. Ashok and others….
Bengaluru: Even as the BJP national leadership is toiling hard to bring unity among the State BJP leaders, dissension has surfaced once again in the State BJP unit over the formation of Booth-level Committees. A meeting to discuss the issue was scheduled to take place at the BJP office here on Saturday for which State…
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