Bengaluru: Amid reports that former Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa (BSY) is being slowly sidelined by the BJP top brass, Union Home Minister Amit Shah will meet Yediyurappa in a closed door meeting that is to take place between 1.15 pm and 1.45 pm on Apr.1, when Shah is expected to participate in the State BJP…
Amit Shah to visit State on Apr. 1
March 24, 2022Bengaluru: Union Home Minister Amit Shah will visit Bengaluru on April 1. He is likely to discuss the party organisational matters with the State Unit leaders. According to the BJP leaders, at the time of his visit to Bengaluru, a final decision on Cabinet rejig is likely to be taken. He is scheduled to hold…
Karnataka to have four Dy.CMs?
March 15, 2022Bengaluru: Reports on the State BJP leadership exerting pressure on the Central leadership to create four Deputy Chief Ministers (Dy.CMs) are doing the rounds in the political circles of the State. It is rumoured that appointment of four Dy.CMs to assist the Chief Minister is being worked out and it remains to be seen whether…
BJP on course for second term in UP, Uttarakhand
March 10, 2022It’s PunjAAP as AAP sweeps away everyone in Punjab; BJP leading in Goa and Manipur New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is set to return to power in Uttar Pradesh (UP), the biggest State in the country, as the party has crossed the halfway mark in early rounds of counting. It will be for…
Pinning hopes on Naari Shakti to retain power: Will Shobha Karandlaje replace Bommai as Karnataka CM?
March 8, 2022Bengaluru: Ever since Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai’s emotional remark last December that “political posts are not permanent”, the change of guard in Karnataka became a talking point in political circles. It has also fuelled speculation of leadership change. The BJP High Command is said to be seriously thinking of appointing Union Minister Shobha Karandlaje as…
BJP to stage Statewide protest against Congress on Feb. 27 and 28
February 26, 2022Bengaluru: Accusing the Congress Party of wasting the Legislature Session and playing petty politics over non-issues, the ruling BJP will stage a Statewide protest against the Opposition Party on Feb. 27 and 28. Announcing this at a press meet here on Thursday, State BJP General Secretary N. Ravikumar said that the BJP will stage a…
BJP’s public squabbling due to commission interest: Congress
February 1, 2022Hidden agenda is to privatise cooking gas distribution; prices to be burdensome Mysore/Mysuru: The ‘direct to home’ piped gas project is not an ambitious and people-friendly project launched by the Centre. Rather it is a project that comes with a handsome commission for which the BJP elected representatives are squabbling in public, alleged Karnataka Pradesh…
City-based international oil expert writes to PM
February 1, 2022Need to look into why some BJP leaders are opposing piped gas project in Mysuru Respectful Prime Minister Shri Modiji, I write this letter with the utmost urgency to draw your attention to the gross injustice that is being done to Mysuru city by your own party MLAs and Corporators of the city. They are…
MLAs, MP not owners but public servants, chides Vishwanath
January 31, 2022‘We seek votes to serve people, not rule’ MysoreMysuru: Joining the Piped Natural Gas project debate, BJP MLC A. H. Vishwanath today chided his party MLAs and the MP and said, “MLAs and MP are not the owners of their respective Constituencies and they are not rulers. Rather they are public servants and have been…
‘Direct to home’ piped gas project: Row over road-digging deepens
January 31, 2022Why is MP Pratap Simha in a tearing hurry to pass bills, asks MLA Nagendra; Miffed MLA rakes up Mysuru missing on Smart City, MLC election debacle Mysore/Mysuru: The public squabbling between the BJP elected representatives — Mysuru-Kodagu MP Pratap Simha, MLAs L. Nagendra and S.A Ramdas — over the Piped Natural Gas (PNG) project…
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