Bengaluru: BJP State President B.S. Yeddyurappa yesterday appointed former Minister V. Sreenivasa Prasad as the Vice-President of the State BJP unit. Prasad is a recent entrant into the party from the Congress. Yeddyurappa also appointed M. Nagaraj, former Congress Corporator of Bengaluru, as a special invitee to the BJP’s State Executive Committee meeting to be…
I have not been invited for BJP’s Mysuru meeting: Eshwarappa
May 3, 2017Raichur: Leader of Opposition in Legislative Council K.S. Eshwarappa has said that he has not been invited for the BJP’s State Executive Committee meeting to be held in Mysuru on May 6 and 7. “I have not been invited and I have not decided on attending or not attending the meeting,” he told reporters yesterday…
POINT BLANK: BJP at large!
May 2, 2017New face for city’s K.R. seat? By K.B. Ganapathy, Editor-in-Chief In William Shakespeare’s play ‘Hamlet,’ Polonius says at one point “Though this be madness, yet there is method in it.” This precisely seems to be the state of Karnataka BJP which will go to the Assembly polls next year, 2018 to challenge the incumbent Congress…
POINT BLANK: Is the State BJP falling apart?
April 30, 2017By K.B. Ganapathy, Editor-in-Chief W.B. Yeats in his poem The Second Coming has said the universal truth when he wrote: Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,…… The ugly spectacle of violent dissent that was seen in Bengaluru on April 27 at the Palace Grounds where K.S. Eswarappa,…
BJP has no connection with Brigade: High Command
April 30, 2017New Delhi/ Bengaluru: Bogged down by the infighting within the Karnataka unit of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) between the factions led by party State President B.S. Yeddyurappa and Leader of the Opposition in the Karnataka Legislative Council K.S. Eshwarappa, the party High Command has issued a set of three rules for the State leaders to…
Yeddyurappa sacks Computer Operator at BJP Office
April 29, 2017Bengaluru: BJP State President B.S. Yeddyurappa has sacked a Computer Operator, working in the party State Head quarters at Malleswaram in Bengaluru, who is said to be a close aide of RSS functionary B.L. Santosh. The action comes a day after Yeddyurappa squarely blamed Santosh as the mastermind behind the rift in the State BJP….
Is State BJP heading for a split ?
April 27, 2017Bengaluru: The factional fight within the State BJP is showing no sign of scaling down with Leader of the Opposition in the Council K.S. Eshwarappa attending a rebels’ meet at the Palace Grounds this morning. Addressing the rally, Eshwarappa dared Yeddyurappa to take disciplinary action against him. Accusing the State Chief of branding genuine party…
Misuse of Government machinery by Congress led to defeat, feels BJP
April 24, 2017Bengaluru: An introspection meeting convened by the State BJP at its headquarters in Malleswaram yesterday attributed the loss in the recent Nanjangud and Gundlupet by-elections to ‘gross misuse of the Government machinery, muscle and money power by the ruling Congress.’ The BJP top brass also felt a tactic understanding between the Congress and JD (S),…
Top leaders skip introspection meet
April 24, 2017Bengaluru: The crucial meeting called to discuss the BJP’s poll debacle in Nanjangud and Gundlupet was skipped by many leaders signalling all is not well within the party. Other than Union minister H.N. Ananth Kumar, Yeddyurappa’s confidants Shobha Karandlaje, Aravind Limbavali and V. Somanna, and defeated candidates V. Sreenivasa Prasad and C.S. Niranjan Kumar, no…
Eshwarappa supporters want party to rein in Yeddyurappa
April 23, 2017Bengaluru: Even as the BJP braces for the 2018 Assembly election, dissension has continued to haunt the party, with State BJP Chief Yeddyurappa’s friend-turned-foe K.S. Eshwarappa and his supporters deciding to exert pressure on the BJP top brass to save the party from the clutches of Yeddyurappa. Eshwarappa’s supporters have convened a meeting at the…
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