Before the two-day State BJP Executive meeting began at Rajendra Kalamandira this morning, BJP State President B.S. Yeddyurappa garlanded the statue of Basavanna near the Gun House Circle at 9 am along with his supporters former Ministers Shobha Karandlaje and S.A. Ramdas. At around 9.30 am, Leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Council and…
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…
Raichur: 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…
Mysuru: Even as the BJP High Command is trying to cool the flaring tempers between BJP State President B.S. Yeddyurappa and Leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Council K.S. Eshwarappa, reports that actor and TV personality Malavika Avinash will be fielded from the Krishnaraja Assembly Constituency in Mysuru for the 2018 elections has created…
New 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…
By 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,…
New 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…
Bengaluru: Concerned over the increasing rift among top leaders in the State BJP, the BJP top brass is said to have asked the party’s National Organising Secretary Ramlal to put an end to the crisis. Based on the instruction of National BJP President Amit Shah, Ramlal has asked the party’s Karnataka in-Charge Muralidhar Rao to…
Bengaluru: BJP National Joint Organising Secretary B.L. Santosh, who has been the centre of target by the Yeddyurappa faction, who accuse him to be behind K.S. Eshwarappa’s rebellion, is said to be attempting to make the most out of the rift between B.S. Yeddyurappa (BSY) and Eshwarappa, according to some sources in the BJP. Santosh,…
Mysuru: JD(S) Corporator B.M. Nataraj joined that BJP in presence of Backward Morcha State President B.J. Puttaswamy at the party office located at Nazarbad on Friday. Speaking to Star of Mysore, Nataraj said that he was quitting JD(S) as the leaders had neglected him and added that he would be submitting his resignation to party…
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