After the results of the Karnataka Assembly elections were announced on 15th May 2018, we have come a long way, yet we do not see a full-fledged government in place. Yes, this might be due to the “coalition compulsion,” a boring, untenable excuse UPA government used to give as justification or reason for its massive…
Canvassing for Council Polls
June 1, 2018The newly-elected Chamaraja MLA L. Nagendra is seen canvassing for BJP candidate B. Niranjan Murthy, who is contesting the Legislative Council elections from South Teachers’ Constituency, at Maharani’s Arts College in city recently. Karnataka Rakshana Vedike District President and Bjp leader K. Madesh and others accompanied the MLA. The elections will be held on June…
CM Kumaraswamy keeping options open on aligning with BJP?
May 30, 2018Bengaluru: Said to be fed up with the Congress attitude over Ministry formation and allotment of portfolios, Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy (HDK) who aligned with the Congress in forming JD(S)-Congress coalition Government is now said to be keeping his options open on entering into an alliance with the opposition BJP. Although HDK’s meeting with Prime…
Demand for farm loan waiver: Poor response to BJP’s call for ‘voluntary’ bandh
May 28, 2018Mysuru: The Opposition BJP’s appeal to farmers and the public to ‘voluntarily observe a State-wide bandh’ today to demand the H.D. Kumaraswamy led new Congress-JD(S) coalition government to announce farm loan waiver, evoked poor response in the city as educational institutions, commercial establishments, business houses, cinema halls, petrol bunks, public offices and the like functioned…
Demanding full farm loan waiver, BJP calls for voluntary State-wide bandh tomorrow
May 27, 2018Mysuru: Demanding full farm loan waiver, the Opposition BJP has called for a State-wide bandh (except Bengaluru urban district) tomorrow. Announcing this a press meet here this morning, City BJP President Dr. B.H. Manjunath said that before the elections, CM H.D. Kumaraswamy in JD(S) manifesto, had promise farm loan waiver within 24 hours of coming…
BJP Legislature Party Meeting this evening
May 24, 2018Bengaluru: With H.D. Kumaraswamy, who took oath as the CM yesterday, seeking Trust Vote in the Floor of the Assembly tomorrow, the Opposition BJP will be holding a crucial meeting with Party Legislators here at 6 pm today. Prior to that, former CM B.S. Yeddyurappa will hold a meeting with the party’s defeated candidates at…
How did Bjp manage to lose Karnataka?
May 24, 2018By N.K.A. Ballal, Retd. Sr. Vice-President, ITDC A very old saying, “The enemy of my enemy is my friend.” But this is not true in politics. BJP learnt this the hard way. With 104 seats in a 222 seat Assembly, they had to concede defeat and sit in the opposition. For another five years. It was…
Anti-People’s Mandate Day by BJP
May 23, 2018Mysuru: Even as the CM-designate H.D. Kumaraswamy (HDK) is all ready to be sworn-in as the 25th CM of the State this evening in Bengaluru, the leaders and workers of the BJP protested against the unholy alliance of Congress and JD(S), observing it as ‘Anti-People’s Mandate Day.’ The leaders and the workers gathered near the…
Post Karnataka fiasco: BJP looks for the ‘fall guy’
May 21, 2018New Delhi: Did BJP miss the services of leaders like Ram Madhav and Himanta Biswa Sarma in Karnataka? In the wake of unceremonious exit from the corridors of power in Karnataka, a quick soul searching and analysis have already begun in the BJP camp and there is a sense that Union Minister Prakash Javadekar could…
King-maker becomes the King: BJP’s defeat in victory
May 20, 2018Yesterday was Saturday and the whole country watched with bated breath the Saturday Political Fever of Karnataka. Voting was on May 12, 2018 and when the results came on 15th May 2018 the numbers were as follows: BJP 104, Congress 78, JD(S) 38 and others 2. The exit polls predicted a hung Assembly with the…
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