Bengaluru: The factional fight within the State BJP is showing no sign of scaling down with Leader of the Opposition in the Council K.S. Eshwarappa attending a rebels’ meet at the Palace Grounds this morning. Addressing the rally, Eshwarappa dared Yeddyurappa to take disciplinary action against him. Accusing the State Chief of branding genuine party…
BJP sweeps MCD polls
April 26, 2017New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is set to rule Delhi’s Municipal Corporation (MCD) for the next five years after the party is leading by huge margins in 186 seats combining all three civic bodies (North Delhi, South Delhi and East Delhi). The elections were held in 270 seats in all three civic bodies…
Misuse of Government machinery by Congress led to defeat, feels BJP
April 24, 2017Bengaluru: An introspection meeting convened by the State BJP at its headquarters in Malleswaram yesterday attributed the loss in the recent Nanjangud and Gundlupet by-elections to ‘gross misuse of the Government machinery, muscle and money power by the ruling Congress.’ The BJP top brass also felt a tactic understanding between the Congress and JD (S),…
Top leaders skip introspection meet
April 24, 2017Bengaluru: 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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