Bengaluru: KPCC President D.K. Shivakumar said that Congress candidate for Maski Assembly by-poll will file nominations on Mar. 29 and the candidate for Basa-vakalyan Assembly segment on Mar.30. Speaking to presspersons at the KPCC Office on Queens Road here on Saturday, Shivakumar said that the Congress has already announced that Basanagouda Turvihal will contest from…
Bedlam in Assembly on first day of Budget Session: Congress opposes ‘One Nation – One Election’
March 4, 2021Stages dharna inside Assembly Bengaluru: The Budget Session of the State Assembly, which began this morning with a debate on ‘One Nation – One Election’ became stormy with Opposition Congress members staging dharna in the Well of the House terming it as ‘RSS agenda.’ As the House assembled, Assembly Speaker Visveshwara Hegde Kageri started reading…
Mayoral Poll row: MLA Tanveer Sait gets notice
March 3, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: The Disciplinary Committee of Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) has served a notice on Narasimharaja (NR) MLA Tanveer Sait over the controversy shrouding the Mysuru Mayoral elections last week. Following instructions from the Party High Command, Disciplinary Committee President K. Rahman Khan has served a notice to Sait seeking detailed explanation on what transpired…
JD(S) will accept Tanveer Sait if Congress acts against him: S.R. Mahesh
March 1, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: K.R. Nagar JD(S) MLA S.R. Mahesh said that the JD(S) was willing to accept NR Congress MLA Tanveer Sait into the party fold, if the Congress party takes disciplinary action against him in connection with Mysuru Mayoral polls. Addressing a press meet at his Office near Rama Vilas Road here yesterday, Mahesh said that…
Tanveer Sait in Bengaluru, to meet KPCC President
March 1, 2021Bengaluru: N.R. Congress MLA Tanveer Sait arrived at Bengaluru this morning to meet KPCC President D.K. Shivakumar over the issue of Mysuru Mayoral polls. Sait was summoned by Shivakumar to seek an explanation on the circumstances that led Congress Corporators to support JD(S) candidate in Mayoral polls that was held on Feb. 24. But even…
Individual pride taking toll on Congress, says MLA
February 28, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: Asserting that he is a loyal Congressman and not a product up for sale, NR MLA Tanveer Sait, whose role in the just concluded Mysuru Mayoral polls has caused a rift in the Congress, said that it is not correct for any party leader to discredit others just for the sake of maintaining one’s…
Mayor’s post to JD(S) was a local decision: R. Dhruvanarayan
February 28, 2021Chamarajanagar: Even as the rift continues to rage in Mysuru City Congress over the Mayoral Polls, KPCC working President and former Chamarajanagar MP R. Dhruvanarayan, who was deputed as KPCC Observer for Mysuru Mayoral polls, has said that the decision to let go the Mayor post to the JD(S) was taken at the local level…
Mayor Election: Former Congress Mayors upset over outcome
February 27, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: Upset over the outcome of the recently held Mayoral polls, former Congress Mayors have demanded disciplinary action against the MLA Tanveer Sait for what they called violation of the party’s stand. Addressing a press meet here yesterday, two former Congress Mayors Arif Hussain and Ayub Khan accused Sait of joining hands with former Chief…
Sait defends his action
February 27, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: Even as Sait’s supporters indulged in sloganeering against Opposition Leader Siddharamaiah and former Assembly Speaker Ramesh Kumar for issuing notice threat to him, N.R. MLA Tanveer Sait said that the decision to hand over the Mayor post to JD(S), has only enhanced the prestige of the Congress as the party was successful in keeping…
Speculations galore as Siddharamaiah moves to resort for some ‘Rest’
February 27, 2021Bengaluru: Even as the rift in the Congress over the Mysuru Mayoral polls is yet to calm down, Opposition Leader and former Chief Minister Siddharamaiah, who is reportedly upset over N.R. MLA Tanveer Sait’s action of handing over the Mayor’s post to JD(S) in his hometown of Mysuru, in a breach of agreement between the…
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