Bengaluru: Sparking off a row, BJP National General Secretary and former Karnataka Minister C.T. Ravi on Saturday called on Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai to rename Indira Canteens, a flagship initiative of the previous Congress Government named after late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. The demand came a day after the Union Government on Friday renamed the…
Bengaluru: In a first, Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai has given his predecessor B.S. Yediyurappa (BSY), a Cabinet-rank status. This is the first time ever in Karnataka that a former CM has been accorded the status without holding any statutory post. A notification to this effect was issued by the Protocol Wing of the Department of…
Bengaluru: Basavaraj Bommai has taken charge as the Chief Minister of Karnataka and expanding the Ministry will be his first big challenge as he will have to navigate through the Cabinet formation exercise by maintaining balance between factions within the ruling BJP. Bommai is likely to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister…
To meet PM Modi this evening; Cabinet expansion likely in a week Bengaluru: Lingayat leader Basavaraj Bommai took oath as the 30th Chief Minister of Karnataka at 11 am today. Bommai was announced as the new CM at a party meeting at a private hotel in Bengaluru last evening. Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot administered the oath…
A cricket fan, Basavaraj Bommai once headed Karnataka State Cricket Association, Dharwad Bengaluru: A close confidante of Lingayat strongman and former CM B.S. Yediyurappa, Karnataka’s new Chief Minister 61-year-old Basavaraj Somappa Bommai was Minister for Home Affairs, Law, Parliamentary Affairs and Legislature in Yediyurappa’s Council of Ministers. He was also the Minister in-charge of Haveri and…
Bengaluru: Basavaraj Bommai took a deep plunge into politics under his father late S.R. Bommai’s tutelage. Somappa Rayappa Bommai was the Chief Minister from 1988-1989 and is immortal in the law books after the Supreme Court gave a landmark judgement disapproving the way he was removed as CM. The senior Bommai along with Ramakrishna Hegde,…
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