After the results of the Karnataka Assembly elections were announced on 15th May 2018, we have come a long way, yet we do not see a full-fledged government in place. Yes, this might be due to the “coalition compulsion,” a boring, untenable excuse UPA government used to give as justification or reason for its massive…
At last, 11 days after the election results came out, on 15th May 2018, Karnataka got its new Government with much drama and suspense. Now is the time for sharing the spoils of election-war. Without wasting time, the top leaders engaged themselves in the Ministry formation exercise immediately after the Assembly was adjourned following the…
Mysuru: Many people paid rich tributes to patient-friendly doctor, writer and art patron late Dr. Bellipadi Satish Rai, at a solemn function held at Ave Maria Golden Jubilee auditorium at Teresian College in Siddarthanagar here yesterday. Satish Rai died recently. Speaking on the occasion, film producer and entrepreneur Sudhakar Bhandari opined that Vaidyo Narayanahari was…
Yesterday was Saturday and the whole country watched with bated breath the Saturday Political Fever of Karnataka. Voting was on May 12, 2018 and when the results came on 15th May 2018 the numbers were as follows: BJP 104, Congress 78, JD(S) 38 and others 2. The exit polls predicted a hung Assembly with the…
The man of Power is ruined by Power. The man of Money by Money. The Submissive man by Subservience. The Pleasure-seeker by Pleasure. – Hermann Hesse, Nobel Laureate for Literature As I watched the Karnataka Assembly elections 2018 results this morning on TV, I could not help but recall the words of Hermann Hesse…
Voting for Karnataka Assembly’s 224 seats takes place tomorrow. [To be exact, it is 223 seats as polling for Jayanagar seat in Bengaluru has been countermanded following the death of BJP candidate B.N. Vijaya Kumar.] A fair and peaceful voting under the watchful eyes of the Election Commission and the security forces is expected —…
With three days to go for the Karnataka Assembly elections, we voters in Mysuru city are facing the onslaught of candidates seeking support based on their promises which they never deliver. And we voters, left with no choice, keep voting not wanting NOTA. After all, let there be someone to represent us as an MLA…
Last Friday, 4th May 2018, I gave a sprinter’s chase to Dr. Yathindra, son of Chief Minister Siddharamaiah, who was on a roller-coaster election tour of his Varuna Constituency as a Congress party candidate. A medical doctor by profession, he was brought into politics by his father after the sad and untimely demise of his…
A couple of days back I learnt from Dr. Shyam Prasad Shetty, Head of Cardiothoracic, JSS Hospital, Mysuru, that his cousin Dr. B. Satish Rai and my family doctor was admitted to Narayana Hrudayalaya, Bengaluru, in a serious condition. Yesterday around 4 pm he again called me to give the sad news. I first saw…
A Kannada TV Channel discusses why not a Bengalurean as CM this time?! The feeling among Lingayats all over the State is that in the event of a hung Assembly, should the BJP and the JD(S) form an alliance Government, the prospects of Yeddyurappa becoming the Chief Minister is very dim. And BJP’s Delhi High…
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