Bengaluru: Congress Parliamentary leader in the Lok Sabha Mallikarjuna Kharge has said that a new KPCC President will be appointed in two weeks. In his first public statement on party matters in recent times, Kharge said the new KPCC President to replace Dr. G. Parameshwara will be announced shortly. AICC President Sonia Gandhi has discussed…
Digvijay Singh dropped as Congress Party in-Charge of Karnataka
April 30, 2017New Delhi: In a big shake up ahead of the 2018 Council Assembly elections in Karnataka, one of the few States in which the Congress is still in power, the party leadership on Saturday divested AICC General Secretary Digvijay Singh of the charge of Karnataka and Goa. Singh has been replaced by former Union Minister…
Nandini Chandrashekar is new Dist. Women Congress President
April 29, 2017Mysuru: Former ZP Member Nandini Chandrashekar took charge as the new District Women Congress President at a programme organised by the Mysuru District Congress at Chikkammaniketana Kalyana Mantap in Kuvempunagar here on Thursday. Speaking on the occasion, Chamarajanagar MP R. Dhruvanarayan appealed the Congress workers to work in unity for enabling the party to retain…
CM thanks voters, says money cannot win elections
April 27, 2017Nanjangud: Dismissing BJP’s allegations that the Congress won the Nanjangud and Gundlupet by-polls by money and muscle power, Chief Minister Siddharamaiah said that elections cannot be won by spending money and if it was so, big industrialists such as Tata, Birla and Ambani too would have attained power. Addressing the Congress thanksgiving meet at the…
Vishwanath meets supporters over next political move
April 25, 2017Mysuru: Former MP and senior Congress leader A.H. Vishwanath, who has rebelled against party leaders, including CM Siddharamaiah and KPCC President Dr. G. Parameshwara, held meeting with his followers to discuss about his next political move at Jaladarshini Guest House yesterday. He expressed his views on joining JD(S) at the beginning of the meeting and…
Former MP Vishwanath to quit Congress?
April 24, 2017Bengaluru: Upset over being continuously sidelined, former MP A.H. Vishwanath is said to have decided to quit the Congress, the party with which he was associated for over four decades. Vishwanath is all set to give a shock to the Congress, which is still in a celebratory mood following the Nanjangud and Gundlupet by-polls victory….
H.Y. Meti to be re-inducted into Cabinet?
April 23, 2017Bengaluru: Former Minister H.Y. Meti, who was forced to quit the Siddharamaiah Cabinet following a sex scam in December last, is likely to be re-inducted into the Cabinet. Chief Minister Siddharamaiah, who flew to New Delhi yesterday to take part in the NITI Ayog meeting today, is likely to meet the Congress High Command and…
Murthy takes over as new City Congress President
April 23, 2017Mysuru: Former Karnataka Exhibition Authority Chairman R. Murthy took Charge as the new President of Mysuru City (District) Congress Committee at a grand function at a site belonging to Congress near City Railway Station yesterday. Murthy by receiving the Congress party flag from Immediate Past President T.S. Ravishankar was officially inducted as the new President….
CM bats for unity of secular forces
April 22, 2017Bengaluru: Stressing on the need for all secular forces to put up an united front against the BJP, Chief Minister Siddharamaiah declared that he would expand his Cabinet soon. Speaking to press persons after oath taking ceremony of newly-elected MLAs Kalale Keshavamurthy and Dr. Geetha Mahadeva Prasad at Vidhana Soudha here yesterday, Siddharamaiah said that…
CM meets Ambarish
April 21, 2017Bengaluru: In a bid to mend fences with Mandya MLA Ambarish, who was dropped from the State Cabinet in June last, Chief Minister Siddharamaiah on Thursday visited the residence of Ambarish and reportedly had dinner with him. The meeting, said to have been facilitated by Bengaluru Development Minister K.J. George, saw the two holding talks…
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