Bengaluru: The newly-elected 17 Members of Legislative Council (MLCs) took oath at the Banquet Hall of Vidhana Soudha here this morning. Council Chairman Basavaraj Horatti administered the oath of office. The newly-elected members of the Upper House include the six MLCs elected from the Teachers and Graduates Constituencies and 11 others elected from Legislative Assembly….
Bengaluru: A total of 11 candidates were elected unopposed to the Legislative Council from the State Assembly in the Biennial election held on Thursday. Of the 11, seven were from the Congress, 3 from the BJP and 1 from the JD(S). Those elected were Minister N.S. Boseraju, Ivan D’Souza, K. Govindaraj, Jagadev Guttedar, Dr. Yathindra…
Bengaluru: With today (June 3) being the last date for filing of nomination papers for 11 Legislative Council seats from the Assembly, all the three major parties — Congress, BJP and JD(S) — announced their candidates on Sunday. While the Congress will be contesting 7 seats, the Opposition BJP – 3 and the JD(S) –…
Mysore/Mysuru: Congress candidate for the Legislative Council polls from South Teachers Constituency Marithibbegowda has appealed party workers to support him to the hilt to ensure his victory. He was addressing a pre-election meeting of Congress Party workers at the Congress Bhavan near the City Railway station here yesterday. Pointing out that he had worked for…
Mysore/Mysuru: After much deliberations with its alliance partner in the State, the JD(S), the BJP High Command, put an end to all speculations on the continuation of the alliance on Saturday by releasing the list of party candidates for Five of the Six Legislative Council seats from Teachers and Graduates Constituencies that are going to…
Poll notification issuance: May 9 Last date to file papers: May 16 Scrutiny of nominations : May 17 Last date for withdrawal: May 20 Counting of votes: June 6 Bengaluru: Coming soon after the Lok Sabha-2024 polls, the biennial election to six Legislative Council seats in Karnataka will take place on June 3 as the…
Bengaluru: The Congress Government has recommended three nominees to the Legislative Council— Actress and former Minister Umashree (from Arts field), former Minister M.R. Seetharam (Educational field) and Sudham Das, a former ED official (Social service field). But as there are objections to the nomination of Sitaram and Sudham Das, Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot is said to…
Bengaluru: As expected, Congress candidates — former Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar, Minister for Minor Irrigation N.S. Boseraju and senior party leader Thippannappa Kamakanur — were elected unopposed to the Legislative Council on Friday. The three were officially declared elected unopposed by Returning Officer Vishalakshi yesterday, as only three candidates remained in the fray after the…
Bengaluru: The by-election to three vacant seats in the State Legislative Council will take place on June 30. The by-elections have been necessitated following the resignation of Baburao Chinchanasur, Laxman Savadi and R. Shankar, who quit their seats to contest the May 10 Assembly elections. The term of Chinchanasur was to end on June 17, …
Belagavi: Seniormost MLC Basavaraj Horatti of the BJP was elected as the Legislative Council Chairman for the third time at the ongoing winter session of the State Legislature at Suvarna Vidhana Soudha here on Wednesday. Horatti, who is also a former Minister, was elected unopposed as he was the only MLC who had filed nomination…
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