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…
Biennial election to seven Legislative Council seats on June 3
May 10, 2022Bengaluru: 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…
Basavaraj Horatti elected Legislative Council Chairman
February 9, 2021Bengaluru: 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…
M.K. Pranesh of BJP elected as Legislative Council Dy. Chairman
January 29, 2021Bengaluru: 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…
Five nominated to Legislative Council
July 23, 2020Bengaluru: 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…
Eleven elected unopposed to Legislative Council
June 5, 2018Bengaluru: 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…
Recent Comments