Mysuru: Strongly condemning open consumption of beef at an event at Kalamandira on Sunday, over 100 members of BJP SC Morcha staged a demonstration at FTS Circle on Mysuru-Bengaluru Road here this morning to register their protest. Pointing out that Kalamandira is the topmost cultural centre in city, the protesters claimed that the ‘so-called’ intellectuals…
Amit Shah arrives in Puducherry
June 26, 2017Puducherry: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Amit Shah arrived in Puducherry on a two-day visit this morning. Shah was welcomed with a traditional song and a motorcycle rally from the airport. During his two-day visit, Shah will garland a statue of poet and journalist Subramania Bharati, followed by attending a party meeting to take stock…
Bihar Governor Ram Nath Kovind is BJP’s Presidential nominee
June 20, 2017New Delhi: The ruling BJP yesterday announced Bihar Governor Ram Nath Kovind as its Presidential candidate. A politically significant choice, Kovind, a senior Dalit leader of the party, belongs to Uttar Pradesh and has been a two-time Rajya Sabha member. To ensure consensus over his candidature, Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke on the phone with…
Big jolt to Congress: BJP’s Shankaramurthy to continue as Council Chairman
June 15, 2017Bengaluru: Congress party suffered a severe setback with JD(S) voting against the No Confidence Motion moved by the Congress against Legislative Council Chairman D.H. Shankaramurthy this morning. Council Deputy Chairman Marithibbegowda allowed the voting on the motion moved by Congress MLC V.S. Urgrappa. While the ‘For’ received 36 votes, ‘Against’ received 37 votes. The Congress…
With political help, lobbies put chemicals in our diet
June 13, 2017BJP must honour its pledge to keep GM food out Before the power of commercial lobbies, even the BJP government bows. The party’s manifesto took a strong stand against Genetically Modified (GM) foods; ignoring it, the Government’s Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC) green-lighted genetically engineered mustard in India. GM mustard is known to be more…
BSY to hold three-day Satyagraha from July 7
June 12, 2017Mysuru: State BJP President and former Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa said that he will hold a three-day satyagraha in Bengaluru from July 7 to 9 to urge the Government to waive off farmers’ loan in Co-operative Banks. Speaking to the media after performing puja to cattle at Pinjrapole at the foot of Chamundi Hill yesterday,…
‘BJP will get majority in next elections’
June 12, 2017Mysuru, June12- Asserting that the BJP will come to power in the 2018 Assembly polls, State BJP President and former CM B.S. Yeddyurappa said that the party can win 5-6 constituencies in the district if there was an honest effort by party workers. Addressing the party leaders and workers at the MMC&RI Auditorium in J.K….
Yeddyurappa kicks off Jana Samparka Abhiyana in city
June 11, 2017Mysuru: State BJP President and former CM B.S. Yeddyurappa set off the party’s ‘Jana Samparka Abhiyana’ campaign in the district by garlanding the statue of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar at FTS Circle on Mysuru-Bengaluru Road in city this morning. Later speaking to press persons, Yeddyurappa accused Siddharamaiah Government of inept handling of drought situation in the…
IAS officer Anurag Tiwari’s mysterious death: Govt. should clear Tiwari family’s doubts: BJP stages dharna in Assembly
June 9, 2017Bengaluru: The BJP staged a dharna in the Assembly yesterday demanding that the Government clear the doubts raised by IAS officer Anurag Tiwari’s family regarding his mysterious death. As soon as the Session began, the Opposition Leader Jagadish Shettar and a few others raised the issue and demanded that the death of Tiwari be allowed…
BJP approach to cattle trading will hurt the economy; but who cares since the idea is to create vote banks
June 6, 2017By T.J.S. George It’s clear: The cow dominates India. The world is changing in radical ways and life-and-death issues confront our country — GST’s impact on everyday life, the ‘dirty war’ in Kashmir, rising attacks on women, crisis in the IT industry, tensions with China. But none of them gets the national attention the cow…
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