Bengaluru: The crucial meeting called to discuss the BJP’s poll debacle in Nanjangud and Gundlupet was skipped by many leaders signalling all is not well within the party. Other than Union minister H.N. Ananth Kumar, Yeddyurappa’s confidants Shobha Karandlaje, Aravind Limbavali and V. Somanna, and defeated candidates V. Sreenivasa Prasad and C.S. Niranjan Kumar, no…
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Eshwarappa supporters want party to rein in Yeddyurappa
April 23, 2017Bengaluru: Even as the BJP braces for the 2018 Assembly election, dissension has continued to haunt the party, with State BJP Chief Yeddyurappa’s friend-turned-foe K.S. Eshwarappa and his supporters deciding to exert pressure on the BJP top brass to save the party from the clutches of Yeddyurappa. Eshwarappa’s supporters have convened a meeting at the…
Abracadabra By K. B. Ganapathy, Columns
State BJP heading for Harakiri in 2018 ?
April 21, 2017The BJP Leader of the Opposition in the State Legislative Council and former Deputy Chief Minister K.S. Eshwarappa is again at his game of bashing State BJP President and former Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa. The State BJP does not seem to have learnt any lessons from its recent disgraceful defeat in the by-elections held for…
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By-polls defeat: Dissidence erupts in BJP again
April 21, 2017Bengaluru: The defeat in the recent by-polls has triggered fresh bout of dissidence in the BJP, with some leaders questioning the style of functioning of State BJP President B.S. Yeddyurappa (BSY). The dissidents, who call themselves as loyal activists of the party, are set to meet on Apr.27 to discuss the state of affairs in…
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Governance Vs administration
April 20, 2017An oft-heard comment is that India is the world’s best administered country, although with the rider that it is so only on paper. On the home front, voices have been aired in the circles of State Legislature that the present administration in Karnataka is the worst in its six-plus decades of history. While the incumbent…
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Congress by-polls victory is only temporary success: B.S. Yeddyurappa
April 18, 2017Accusing the Congress Government of rampant misuse of administrative machinery in the Nanjangud and Gundlupet by-polls, former CM and State BJP President B.S. Yeddyurappa said that the Congress victory in the by-polls was only a temporary phase. Speaking at a thanksgiving programme organised by the BJP at Yatri Bhavan on Ooty Road here yesterday, Yeddyurappa…
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BJP will pursue ‘Mission-150’: B.S.Yeddyurappa
April 17, 2017Mysuru – Maintaining that there was no change whatsoever in BJP’s pursuit of ‘Mission-150’ following the party’s defeat in Nanjangud and Gundlupet by-polls, State BJP President B.S. Yeddyurappa asserted that the Party would win the 2018 Assembly Polls and form the Government in the State. Speaking to press persons here this morning en route to…
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Yeddyurappa to visit Nanjangud and Gundlupet tomorrow
April 16, 2017Bengaluru – BJP State President B.S. Yeddyurappa will visit Nanjangud and Gundlupet on Apr. 17 (tomorrow) to meet party workers and enthuse them to prepare for the 2018 Assembly elections. BJP had to face an electoral debacle both in Nanjangud and Gundlupet at the hands of Congress in the recently held by-election. Apart from understanding…
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BJP High Command to seek explanation from State leaders
April 15, 2017Bengaluru – Bharatiya Janata Party’s failure to win both Nanjangud and Gundlupet Assembly by-elections has upset the BJP high command and it is seeking explanation from State leadership. BJP State President B.S. Yeddyurappa has already left for Bhubaneswar in Odisha where the two-day BJP National Executive is being held from Apr. 15 (today) and he…
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POINT BLANK: Fall of BJP – Will it Rise in 2018?
April 14, 2017Congress-JD(S) alliance in the horizon The whole world loves the winner, declared Indira Gandhi after winning a landslide victory in 1971 Lok Sabha elections, held a year before the normal 5-year term. She got 362 seats out of 520, a two-third majority. A similar feat was delivered by BJP under Narendra Modi in the 2014…
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