Mysore/Mysuru: In all, 13 Ministers and a many of the bigwigs irrespective of party, have bitten the dust in the recent Assembly elections, as per the results announced yesterday. The Ministers who lost the elections are Dr. K. Sudhakar in Chikkaballapur, B. Sriramulu in Kampli (ST Reserve), Govind Karjol in Mudhol, Murugesh Nirani in Bilgi,…
Mysore/Mysuru: With his sixth straight victory from Narasimharaja (NR) Assembly Constituency in the city, Congress MLA Tanveer Sait has equalled his late father and former Minister Azeez Sait’s record. Tanveer Sait, who forayed into politics after the death of his father, successfully contested the by-election held in 2002. Since then, Tanveer Sait has never looked…
Mandya: Darshan Puttannaiah of Sarvodaya Karnataka Party (SKP) is the only farmer’s representative of the State entering the Vidhana Soudha this time. The SKP, founded in 2005, has seen 2 Legislators thus far. They are the father son-duo of K.S. Puttannaiah and Darshan. While Puttannaiah had won in 2013 and 1994 (from Pandavapura), his son…
Bengaluru: The high profile Jayanagar Assembly constituency in Bengaluru, became the last result to be announced by the Election Commission, after several rounds of re-counting of votes was taken up following a complaint by BJP candidate C.K. Ramamurthy after his Congress rival and sitting MLA Sowmya Reddy was declared winner yesterday afternoon. Sowmya Reddy of…
Karnataka 2023 Assembly elections Indira Gandhi had reacted, rather cryptically, to a journalist who asked her how she felt after her 1980 Parliamentary elections’ victory trouncing the Janata Party, saying, ‘the whole world loves the winner.’ Of course, she did not say that the loser is an orphan. After yesterday’s unprecedented victory of the Congress…
What an emphatic victory for Congress and what a lesson the Karnataka voters have taught the State BJP that was corrupt, arrogant, incompetent and ill-prepared. The scale of Congress’ victory in the Karnataka Assembly elections is a record of both seats and vote share in over 30 years. The party has won 135 seats with…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD This article is not about what happened at the election that we have just had in our State and what its outcome was. It is also not about who should have won and who should have lost at the hustings this time. It’s too late for that, because, by…
Bengaluru: Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai has conceded defeat of BJP as the Congress sailed past the halfway mark at 2.30 pm, leading in 136 seats (winning 29 seats). The ruling BJP is leading in 63 seats (winning 13 seats) and H.D. Kumaraswamy’s JD(S) is ahead in 21 seats (winning 4 seats) while others led…
Mysore/Mysuru: Leader of Opposition in Legislative Assembly Siddharamaiah has termed the humongous victory of Congress party in the Karnataka Assembly elections as the mandate against Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP National President J.P. Nadda. Speaking to media persons in the city this morning, Siddharamaiah who is one of the frontrunners…
Bengaluru: KPCC President D.K. Shivakumar thanked all the leaders including AICC President M. Mallikarjun Kharge, former Congress Presidents Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul Gandhi and AICC General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi and former Chief Minister Siddharamaiah for scoring a big victory in the Assembly elections, the counting of votes of which were held today. Shivakumar,…
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