Mysuru: Asserting that the Congress has given seven tickets to Bhovi Community candidates in keeping with its push for social justice, Chief Minster Siddharamaiah has appealed the people to vote for the Congress. Addressing Bhovi community leaders and party workers yesterday at Lingambudhi Palya coming under Chamundeshwari constituency from where he is contesting, Siddharamaiah said…
Brijesh Kalappa questions why he was denied ticket
April 17, 2018Mysuru: Congress leader and senior advocate Brijesh Kalappa took to social media to express his disappointment at being looked over for a ticket from Madikeri. Kalappa, also a Supreme Court advocate and who had recently been appointed as the media coordinator for Congress in Karnataka, wrote a dramatic post on Facebook, alleging that this was…
Allotment of party ticket: Congress workers vandalise party office in Mandya
April 17, 2018Mandya: A day after the Congress announced its list of candidates for 218 Assembly seats, which also included Mandya, supporters of key aspirant Ravikumar (Ganiga Ravi) vandalised the Mandya District Congress office yesterday opposing the candidature of former Minister and actor M.H. Ambarish for Mandya Assembly segment. More than 30 supporters of Ravikumar, who gathered…
Two UoM Professors in soup for supporting Congress
April 17, 2018Mysuru: Two professors of the University of Mysore who allegedly took part in the campaigning organised recently on behalf of the Congress party have landed in soup for violation of norms. Prof. B.P. Mahesh Chandra Guru of the Department of Mass Communication and Journalism and Prof. Aravind Malagathi of Kuvempu Institute of Kannada Studies (KIKS)…
One candidate files nomination on Day-1
April 17, 2018Mysuru: Padmanabha Rao, a resident of Ramabai Nagar and an Independent candidate from Chamundeshwari Constituency, is the first candidate to file one set of nomination papers with the Returning Officer at Mini Vidhana Soudha here this morning in the run up for the 2018 Assembly polls scheduled for May 12. Returning Officers (RO) of all…
IPS Officers from Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh appointed as Police Observers in Mysuru
April 17, 2018Mysuru: The Election Commission has appointed two IPS officers from Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh to keep tab on the security arrangements for the ensuing Assembly polls in the district for which the polling will take place on May 12. While Yogesh Deshmukh, a 1995-batch IPS Officer from Madhya Pradesh has been given the task…
Battle for Chamundeshwari – 2018: CM, ex-CM hold Road Shows
April 16, 2018Mysuru: Even as his political foe H.D. Kumaraswamy (HDK), State JD(S) President and former Chief Minister, is winding up his second leg of poll campaign in Chamundeshwari Constituency tonight, Chief Minister Siddharamaiah hit the campaign trail for the second time this morning in the Constituency from where he is contesting. With the CM contesting from…
CM to contest from only one seat
April 16, 2018Bengaluru: After nearly a week of hectic parleying, the Congress on Sunday night, announced its candidates for 218 Assembly seats for the May 12 polls. The party also ended much speculation about the Chief Minister contesting in two seats, by fielding CM Siddharamaiah from only Chamundeshwari in Mysuru and KPCC President Dr. G. Parameshwara from…
Assembly polls: Filing of nominations from tomorrow
April 16, 2018Mysuru: Deputy Commissioner and District Electoral Officer K.B. Sivakumar has said that the District Polling Officials were ready to receive nomination papers from tomorrow for the Assembly polls. Addressing a press meet at his office here this morning, the DC said that the process of filing papers will begin tomorrow at 11 am and go…
Modi to campaign in State on Apr.18
April 16, 2018Bengaluru: The State BJP has drawn a road map for the party’s poll campaign and according to it PM Modi will address public rallies at over 20 places in the State. BJP National President Amit Shah has already been touring the State. Modi will launch his poll campaign on Apr.18 and will take part in…
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