Mysuru: The elections to the Karnataka State Assembly is round the corner and the leaders and the supporters of political parties are making all efforts to garner seats to contest. The Congress party is no exception as the Congress Bhavan near the City Railway Station was a beehive of activity this morning. The aspirants, with…
Tit for Tat Politics of Congress and BJP …and helpless people suffer
January 25, 2018State BJP to declare Bandh in every district Rahul would visit in retaliation to today’s bandh Mysuru: Brace up for two more bandhs in the next 20 days. While pro-Kannada activists have called for a Bengaluru bandh on Feb.4, the day of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Bengaluru, the BJP, in a retaliatory move,…
‘Congress workers have responsibility of contributing to party’s growth’
January 4, 2018Mysuru: Observing that Congress workers have the responsibility of contributing to the growth of the party, for which Mahatma Gandhi and other great leaders have made sacrifices, former ZP President Dr. Pushpa Amaranth has underlined the need for unity among the Congress workers for retaining power in the State. She was speaking at the 133rd…
Astrologically speaking…: JD(S) will be a ‘King-Maker,’ predicts noted astrologer
December 23, 2017Bengaluru: Vellore Shankaranarayana Dwarakanath Guruji, popularly known as Dwarakanath Guruji, who is deemed to be very close to Energy Minister, D.K. Shivakumar has predicted that JD(S) will be the ‘King-Maker’ in 2018 Assembly elections and the State will get a new Chief Minister. Interestingly, JD(S) Supremo H.D. Deve Gowda has said that in the changing…
A day before Rahul’s anointment: Sonia says “I will retire”
December 15, 2017New Delhi: Congress President Sonia Gandhi broke silence on her role within the party a day ahead of Rahul Gandhi’s anointment as AICC President. Speaking to mediapersons, the veteran Congress leader said that her role is to retire now. Rahul was declared elected as the new President of the Congress party on Dec. 11. The…
‘Rahul era’ begins for Congress
December 12, 2017New Delhi: As expected, Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi was elected unopposed as President of the Indian National Congress yesterday. He will formally take over the position from his mother Sonia Gandhi on Dec.16. The announcement, made by the party’s Central Election Authority Chief Mullapally Ramachandran, came at the end of an internal poll process in…
Looking beyond a sham Election
December 12, 2017By TJS George No harm would have come to the Congress Party if Rahul Gandhi was named President one fine morning. Much harm was done to its image by staging a charade of an election. As many as 89 sets of nomination papers filed for Shri Gandhi. Not even one nam-ke-wastay opponent. (Dissidents? What dissidents?)…
With Ramya Canteen, food politics picks up pace in Mandya
December 4, 2017Mandya: With Assembly Polls is just about 4-5 months away, political activities in Mandya has already started to gain momentum with supporters of various political leaders opening canteens and serving food in a subsidised rates. After the successful launch of ‘Indira Canteen’ in Bengaluru by the Congress State Government, it was the turn of JD(S),…
Congress to launch Jan Ashirwad Yatra soon
November 29, 2017Bengaluru: Not to be left behind ahead of the 2018 Assembly Polls, the Congress party will launch a Jan Ashirwad Yatra across the State as a reply to the BJP’s ongoing ‘Parivartana’ rally. Addressing press persons here yesterday, Chief Minister Siddharamaiah said that he will launch Jan Ashirwad Yatra in March. Pointing out that ahead …
To mock a PM on social media is to demean one’s country
November 23, 2017By K.B. Ganapathy, Editor-in-Chief On reading about the new controversy over mocking Prime Minister Narendra Modi by showing him as mispronouncing the internet vocabulary meme, I decided to know more about it. I went to the internet: An Internet meme, pronounced MEEM, is an activity, catchphrase or piece of media which spreads, often as mimicry…
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