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…
Bengaluru: BJP candidate Baburao Chinchansur has been elected unopposed to the lone vacant seat in the Legislative Council. The seat had fallen vacant following the resignation of C.M. Ibrahim, who quit the Congress to join JD(S) a few months ago. Although the Election Commission had set Aug.11 as the date of polling to elect the…
Bengaluru: The biennial election to the seven Legislative Council seats that will fall vacant in the State will take place on June 3. Announcing the poll schedule this morning, the Election Commission of India (ECI) in a press release said that the elections to the seven Council seats to be elected by Members of the…
Bengaluru: Senior JD(S) MLC Basavaraj Horatti was today elected as the new Chairman of the Legislative Council. Soon as the Council Session began, Congress members staged a protest in the Well of the House claiming that their demand for a division of vote on the Prevention of Cow Slaughter Bill was overlooked. But the BJP…
Bengaluru: M.K. Pranesh of the ruling BJP was elected as the new Deputy Chairman of the Legislative Council on the second day today of the week-long Joint Session of the State Legislature. With the Opposition Congress fielding K.C. Kondaiah as its candidate yesterday, voting became a necessity and as such polling took place. Pranesh won…
Bengaluru: Governor Vajubhai R. Vala on Wednesday nominated five persons including former Ministers A.H. Vishwanath and C.P. Yogeshwar and three others to the State Legislative Council. The three others nominated are BJP Mahila Morcha President Bharathi Shetty, Academician from Belagavi Sabanna Talwar and Tribal activist Shantaram Budna Siddi. The nomination comes as a relief to…
Bengaluru: Eleven new members were elected unopposed to the Karnataka Legislative Council on Monday in the biennial elections to the Upper House. Out of the 11 members elected unanimously, five are from the BJP, four from the Congress and two from the JD(S). The new BJP members elected are Dr. Tejaswini Gowda, K.P. Nanjundi, Raghunath…
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