Time has come for people of Karnataka to choose a Government of their choice after five years. The State Assembly elections are expected around May 2023, this year. The election is almost at our doorsteps though the Election Commission has not yet announced the calendar of events. As expected, we see heightened resurgence of political…
Congress to wave black flags to protest against Expressway toll
March 1, 2023Mysore/Mysuru: The Congress party will hold a black flag demonstration on Mar. 11 to protest against what it called exorbitant toll levied on motorists using the Mysuru-Bengaluru 10-lane Access-Controlled Expressway (National Highway-275). Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to inaugurate the Expressway in Maddur on Mar. 11. Addressing a press conference at the Congress Office…
MLA Tanveer Sait decides to retire from active politics
February 28, 2023Mysore/Mysuru: In a surprise development, Congress MLA Tanveer Sait has decided to retire from active politics. Tanveer Sait, also a former Minister, who had won successively five times including one by-election from Narasimharaja (N.R.) Constituency on a Congress ticket, has decided to quit electoral politics citing health issues. The MLA is said to have written…
List of Congress candidates from Mysuru district finalised?
February 28, 2023Bengaluru: With the Assembly polls fast approaching, the Congress is said to have finalised the list of party candidates for the 11 Assembly segments of Mysuru district in order to make a headstart over its rivals — the BJP and JD(S). While it is almost certain that sitting MLAs Anil Chikkamadu of H.D. Kote, Dr….
MCC puts brakes on BJP, Congress poster war
February 22, 2023Mysore/Mysuru: Amid the heated poster war between ruling BJP and principal Opposition party Congress in the State, Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) has started cracking down on sticking posters on Government owned buildings in the city, that mar the beauty of the structures otherwise. This follows the instructions of Chief Electoral Officer Karnataka, prompting MCC officials…
Former JD(S) MLC Sandesh Nagaraj joins Congress
February 22, 2023Mysore/Mysuru: Former JD(S) MLC Sandesh Nagaraj, who had quit BJP late last year, joined the Congress Party at the KPCC Office in Bengaluru on Monday, the party which he had served two decades ago. Sandesh Nagaraj, who is also a Film Producer, had joined the BJP ahead of the Legislative Council polls from Mysuru-Chamarajanagar in…
Poster campaign launched against BJP
February 20, 2023Mysore/Mysuru: In a counter to the BJP’s poster campaign on its achievements, the Opposition Congress on Sunday launched a counter poster campaign against the BJP in the city, charging the ruling party of false propaganda and terming the budget presented by Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai as a bundle of lies. Accusing the BJP of fooling…
First list of Congress candidates on Feb. 28
February 20, 2023Bengaluru: With the Assembly polls round the corner, the Congress in an effort to make a head-start to its poll campaign, will release its first list of 126 candidates on Feb. 28. The Congress, which held a survey on its chances of winning in each of the 224 Assembly segments of the State, has come…
Siddu assures funds for folk arts
February 1, 2023‘Rajya Janapada Prapancha’ Award conferred Mysore/Mysuru: Leader of the Opposition in Legislative Assembly Siddharamaiah has assured to address the demands to foster folk arts with special funds, with Congress party expected to return to power in the forthcoming Assembly elections in the State. Siddharamaiah, who addressed the gathering at a programme organised by Kannada Janapada…
Congress will win all Assembly segments in Mysuru: Siddharamaiah
January 27, 2023Mysore/Mysuru: Asserting that the Congress will win all 11 Assembly Constituencies in the district, Opposition leader and former Chief Minister Siddharamaiah said that the Congress will implement all stalled projects in the district if voted to power in the Assembly polls. He was addressing a mammoth gathering of the party’s ‘Prajadhwani Yatra’ at J.K. Grounds…
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