Bengaluru: Responding to the Congress party’s initiative of inviting applications from prospective candidates for the forthcoming Assembly polls, Opposition leader and former Chief Minister Siddharamaiah submitted his application on the last day yesterday, even as he maintained suspense over his choice of Constituency. The veteran Congress leader submitted application seeking the party ticket, through his…
Congress stages protest against Government’s anti-labour policies
November 22, 2022Mysore/Mysuru: Seeking fulfilment of various demands such as implementation of pension scheme and necessary facilities be provided to labourers by the Labour Department among other demands, the activists of Congress Labour Division staged a protest in front of the Office of the Labour Commissioner in city yesterday. The activists, who assembled in front of the…
Alleged voter data theft: Congress demands CM Bommai’s resignation
November 17, 2022File FIR against Basavaraj Bommai and arrest him, demands Randeep Singh Surjewala Bengaluru: The Congress in Karnataka demanded the resignation of Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai, alleging he is directly responsible for an alleged corrupt electoral practice by assigning a private entity to collect door-to-door voter information. Congress General Secretary and the party’s Karnataka in-charge Randeep…
Party High Command will decide on the Constituency that I would contest: Siddu
November 15, 2022Mysore/Mysuru: Maintaining that local Congress party workers from different parts of the State have appealed him to contest from their constituency, including Kolar, Chamarajpet, Varuna and Badami, Opposition Leader and former CM Siddharamaiah said that, however, he has left to the party High Command to decide on which constituency he should contest from in Assembly…
Grand welcome to AICC Chief Kharge in Bengaluru
November 7, 2022Bengaluru: Incumbent AICC President Mallikarjun Kharge on Sunday was given a rousing welcome by Karnataka Congress leaders and workers. Kharge, who was on a maiden visit to Bengaluru after assuming charge as AICC President, was received by State party leaders including D.K. Shivakumar (KPCC President) and Siddharamaiah (Opposition Leader), at the Kempegowda International Airport in…
‘Installation of Kempegowda’s statue in Bengaluru welcome’
October 24, 2022KPCC Spokesperson accuses BJP of election gimmick to woo Vokkaliga community Mysore/Mysuru: “The installation of Nadaprabhu Kempegowda near Kempegowda International Airport in Bengaluru is welcome. The statue could have been installed two years before itself. Just because the elections are nearing, the BJP, by installing the statue now, is trying to woo Vokkaliga community,” accused…
Mr. Mallikarjun Kharge, Congress President, I presume?
October 22, 2022Congratulations to our dear Kannadiga Sri Mallikarjun Kharge, the veteran Congressman, on his being elected as the 98th President of the Indian National Congress (INC) on October 19, 2022. By the way, the INC was founded by an english man by name Allan Octavian Hume and the first President of INC was Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee…
Congress must choose: Gandhis or Democracy
October 22, 2022India desperately needs a strong Opposition party. Sadly, Congress refuses to take that place. Its members always choose the Gandhi family’s wishes over their voters’. On Wednesday (Oct.19), 80-year-old M. Mallikarjun Kharge, the Congress party’s ‘consensus candidate’, beat 66-year-old Shashi Tharoor to be the new non-Gandhi Congress Party President in 27 years. Only the old…
Mallikarjun Kharge elected as new Congress Chief
October 20, 2022To assume office on Oct.2 New Delhi: Amid the daunting task of reversing its electoral slide which began with the defeat in the 2014 LS polls, the Congress on Wednesday elected veteran Party leader from Karnataka Mallikarjun Kharge, a first from non-Gandhi family, to head the 137-year-old party in 22 years. Kharge succeeds long-time Party…
Kharge sweeps AICC President poll
October 19, 2022Shashi Tharoor gets 1,072 votes out of 9,385 New Delhi: Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge swept the AICC (All India Congress Committee) Presidential polls this morning, paving the way for him to become the Congress’ first non-Gandhi President in over two decades. Kharge will replace interim Congress Chief Sonia Gandhi, who has been occupying the post…
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