Mysuru: Already in election mode in Karnataka, State BJP President B.S. Yeddyurappa, the party’s declared CM candidate, is travelling across the State as if he has fixed wheels to his legs. His aim is to bring down the Congress Government that is at present ruling the State. He was in Mysuru this morning to address…
Leaders lobby for BJP ticket in Nanjangud
January 20, 2018Nanjangud: With the State Assembly polls just a couple of months away, hectic political activities have begun in Nanjangud BJP, with leaders vying with each other for getting the party ticket. Former Minister and senior BJP leader V. Sreenivasa Prasad, who quit his Assembly seat from Nanjangud after being unceremoniously dropped from Siddharamaiah’s Cabinet, contested…
Two JD(S) MLAs join BJP
January 20, 2018Bengaluru: In a severe setback to the JD(S) just a couple of months before the Assembly polls, two party MLAs from Raichur district quit the JD(S) and joined the BJP at the BJP State headquarters in Malleswaram here on Thursday. Lingasugur MLA Manappa Vajjal and Raichur city MLA Dr. Shivaraj Patil, after quitting their Assembly…
BJP seeks ban on PFI, SDPI; Cong. passes buck to Centre
January 5, 2018New Delhi/Bengaluru: Following the murder of Deepak Rao, a pro-Hindu organisation volunteer in Dakshina Kannada, the BJP has reiterated its demand to ban Popular Front of India (PFI) and Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI). The Karnataka Government, however, has put the onus on the Centre asking the BJP to get the Union Government to…
City BJP condemns murder of Deepak Rao
January 5, 2018Condemning the murder of BJP activist Deepak Rao at Katipalla near Surathkal, city’s N.R. Constituency BJP activists led by State Backward Classes Secretary and Corporator B.M. Nataraj staged a protest near FTS Circle in city yesterday. Deputy Mayor Rathna Lakshman, Mysuru City Election in-charge M.V. Ravishankar, Henmanth Kumar Gowda, N.R. Constituency President S. Murali and…
‘Not too difficult to win Karnataka’: Amit Shah addresses party leaders in Bengaluru
January 1, 2018Bengaluru: Maintaining that it will not be difficult for the BJP to win the forthcoming Karnataka Assembly polls, BJP National President Amit Shah has stressed on the need for unity among party leaders in the State to achieve victory. Addressing the party leaders at a hotel near Yelahanka on the outskirts of Bengaluru on Sunday,…
Amit Shah to visit State tomorrow
December 30, 2017Bengaluru: With the State BJP mired in internal dissidence, BJP National President Amit Shah is scheduled to visit the State on Dec.31. Shah has convened a meeting of party MPs, Legislators and office-bearers at the party State headquarters here tomorrow. He is said to have asked the party leaders to come up with statistics and…
Astrologically speaking…: JD(S) will be a ‘King-Maker,’ predicts noted astrologer
December 23, 2017Bengaluru: Vellore Shankaranarayana Dwarakanath Guruji, popularly known as Dwarakanath Guruji, who is deemed to be very close to Energy Minister, D.K. Shivakumar has predicted that JD(S) will be the ‘King-Maker’ in 2018 Assembly elections and the State will get a new Chief Minister. Interestingly, JD(S) Supremo H.D. Deve Gowda has said that in the changing…
BJP SC Morcha condemns rape and murder of Vijayapura Dalit girl
December 23, 2017Mysuru: More than 500 members of BJP SC Morcha staged a demonstration in front of the DC’s office here this morning in protest against the rape and murder of a minor Dalit girl in Vijayapura recently. The protesters, who marched in a procession from Maharaja’s College Grounds to the DC’s office, raised slogans against the…
PM Narendra Modi to announce special package for Karnataka
December 21, 2017Bengaluru: Prime Minister Narendra Modi after winning the Gujarat elections for the fifth time in a row is now focusing all his energies on Karnataka to wrest power from the ruling Congress party by planning to announce a special package to the State. He is likely to announce a special package of thousands of crores…
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