Bengaluru: Tabu Gundu Rao, wife of Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) President Dinesh Gundu Rao, is likely to be the party’s candidate from the Shivajinagar Assembly Constituency for the upcoming by-polls. According to Congress sources, party leaders of Shivajinagar have demanded to field Tabu from Shivajinagar Constituency and even Dinesh Gundu Rao has been putting…
Unholy Alliance
November 16, 2019One has to ask, what use is a pre-poll alliance if the partners cannot deliver a Government even after the people have given them the mandate? It is said Politics is the art of possibilities, but Shiv Sena and BJP have shown the art of irresponsibility. They have left Maharashtra, a State that makes up…
Economic slowdown: Congress stages protest against State and Centre
November 13, 2019Mysuru: Opposing ‘anti-people’ policies of BJP and blaming Central Government’s policies for economic slowdown, Congress workers lead by City Congress President R. Murthy and District Congress President B.J. Vijaykumar staged demonstration this morning at Gandhi Square in city. More than 150 activists of Congress participated in the protest. They raised slogans against Prime Minister Narendra…
Discontent brews in Congress over ticket distribution for by-polls
November 12, 2019Bengaluru: Even as the Congress has gone into poll mode with the issuance of notification for by-polls to 15 Assembly segments, trouble is brewing in the party as the fight between old party stalwarts and migrants has escalated over distribution of the party tickets. The differences came to light at the party meeting chaired by…
C.H. Vijayashankar to return to BJP tomorrow
November 4, 2019Mysuru: Former MP and Congress leader C.H. Vijayashankar, who had unsuccessfully contested on a Congress ticket from Mysuru-Kodagu Constituency in the Lok Sabha polls held in April this year, will rejoin the BJP at the party headquarters in Malleshwaram, Bengaluru, tomorrow at 3 pm. Vijayashankar was with the BJP since the 1990s and had represented…
Congress laps up CM’s audio clip; stages protest
November 4, 2019Mysuru: Stepping up their attack on Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa over a purported video containing his remarks on resignations of Congress and JD-S MLAs, Karnataka Congress staged a State-wide protest this morning. In Mysuru, over a hundred members of the city and district units of the Congress party staged a demonstration at Gandhi Square seeking…
Siddharamaiah leads Congress demonstration in city
September 4, 2019Party to intensify protests at taluks tomorrow Mysuru, Sept.4 (RK&DM)- Accusing the BJP of vindictive politics, hundreds of Congress workers belonging to Youth Congress, City Congress, District Congress and Mahila Congress staged a demonstration at Gandhi Square this morning, in protest against the arrest of party MLA D.K. Shivakumar (DKS). Addressing the protestors, CLP leader…
‘Follies of father-sons trio of JD(S) triggered Coalition Collapse’
August 24, 2019Bengaluru: A month after the JD(S)-Congress Coalition Government, headed by H.D. Kumaraswamy (HDK) collapsed, CLP Leader and former Chief Minister Siddharamaiah has blamed JD(S) Supremo and former PM H.D. Deve Gowda (HDD) and his son HDK for the collapse of the Coalition State Government. Addressing a press meet at his ‘Cauvery’ residence in Bengaluru yesterday,…
BJP is not doing what Congress did then
August 21, 2019The article titled “Congress did it then, BJP now” in the column Point of View by veteran journalist TJS George (SOM dated Aug. 20) should be an eye-opener for all those who love this country as a Secular Democracy. As a country, we have the Constitutional guarantee to Fundamental Rights — Justice (Social, Economical and…
Congress moving towards a split?
July 16, 2019By T.J.S. George Rahul Gandhi’s insistence on not continuing as Congress President was the best thing that happened to the Congress in a long time. He must stick to it. Confusion and chaos, perhaps even cracks and crumbling may follow. That, too, would be good for the party which is 134-years-old now. Everything needs renewal,…
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