Mysuru: In a show of strength and unity, the coalition partners — JD(S) and Congress — held a joint rally at the sprawling Maharaja’s College Grounds here last evening. The rally was aimed at sending a strong message on following ‘Coalition Dharma’ and fight the LS Polls unitedly to defeat the BJP. Addressing the gathering,…
Campaign reaches feverish pitch in Mandya hotbed
April 13, 2019Former PM H.D. Deve Gowda, CM HDK, his wife Anitha, son Nikhil, Sumalatha, Actors Darshan and Yash campaign Mandya: With just six days left for Lok Sabha polls, campaigning has touched a feverish pitch in Mandya with political leaders, candidates and film stars intensifying their campaigns, criss-crossing different areas. Mandya has garnered the attention…
Pratap Simha canvasses in K.R. Assembly segment
April 13, 2019Mysuru: With just five days to go for the polls, sitting MP and BJP candidate from Mysuru-Kodagu LS seat Pratap Simha held a brisk campaign in several areas of K.R. Assembly segment in the city this morning. Pratap Simha who addressed public gatherings at different places coming under the Assembly segment, went in a rally…
‘Run for Democracy’ to create voter awareness flagged off in Mysuru
April 13, 2019Mysuru: The District Administration, Mysuru City Corporation, SVEEP (Systematic Voters’ Education and Electoral Participation) and other organisations had jointly organised ‘Run for Democracy’ a 3-km run to create voter awareness, in the city this morning. The nonagenarian former VC Prof. B. Sheik Ali flagged off the run in front of Kote Anjaneya Swamy Temple at…
KSRTC bus facility for election staff from mustering centres
April 13, 2019Mysuru: KSRTC has arranged bus facility for those appointed to conduct the 2019 General Elections. The bus arrangement has been made on Apr.17 at 6 am at the Assembly constituency mustering centres for election staffs that has been deployed to be ferried to various polling booths. Mustering centres 210 – Periypatna: Pushpa Convent on Gonikoppa…
Special arrangements for physically challenged to vote welcomed
April 13, 2019Mysuru: The Election Commission of India (ECI), District Administration and Mysuru Vikala Vikasa Trust has lauded the efforts of the Administration for creating facilities to the Physically Challenged (Persons with Disabilities) and weak senior citizens to freely cast votes without any hindrance. Trust’s Managing Trustee S.S. Vaidyanath, addressing a press meet at Pathrakartara Bhavan here…
Awareness Jatha for ‘Special’ voters
April 13, 2019Mysuru: A massive Jatha marked voter awareness campaign for specially abled persons, jointly organised by the District SVEEP Committee, Mysuru City Corporation (MCC), JSS Polytechnic for Differently Abled and other organisations in city yesterday. JSS Mahavidyapeetha Executive Secretary Dr. C.G. Betsurmath flagged off the rally at Bisilu Maramma Temple in T.K. Layout. Speaking on the…
Will Ashoka’s Navaratnas produce a great leader for India?
April 13, 2019Plato the Greek Philosopher had said that an unexamined life is not worth living. I am unable to get the sense of this precept. Whose life? If it is my own life, life of each individual, how to examine it? What are the standards and parameters? Does it also mean introspection? Further, does it mean…
Mysuru-Kodagu voters will not let me down
April 13, 2019Very few people know that Congress- JD(S) coalition candidate from Mysuru-Kodagu Lok Sabha Constituency C.H. Vijayashankar was in the Police Department 30 years ago. He hails from Haveri and was a Police Sub-Inspector, Hunsur Circle. He later plunged into politics and saw success by becoming MLA and two-term MP. Vijayashankar says that he is always…
Additional CEC Dr. Ajay Nagabhushan holds video conference
April 12, 2019Mysuru: Additional State Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Dr. M.N. Ajay Nagabhushan has asked the electoral officers in the district to ensure that the Model Code of Conduct is strictly implemented and a day-to-day account of the implementation must be sent to the State Election Commission (SEC). Along with the Model Code, expenditure of the candidates…
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