Tirath Singh Rawat in Uttarakhand, BS Yediyurappa in Karnataka, and now Vijay Rupani in Gujarat — the BJP has replaced three chief ministers in less than three months. In a surprise move Saturday afternoon, Rupani stepped down as chief minister in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state where elections to the 182-member Assembly are due … Read more
Former chief minister BS Yediyurappa on Sunday declined government facilities that are extended to Cabinet-rank ministers in less than 24 hours after chief minister Basavaraj Bommai ordered the same to him. The government on Saturday ordered that the former chief minister be extended all facilities that are applicable to a cabinet-rank minister. These were supposed … Read more
(This story originally appeared in on Jul 28, 2021) With a political career spanning over 21 years, S Basavaraj Bommai has always been considered a former socialist now owing allegiance to BJP. For, his father and former chief minister SR Bommai was from Janata Dal and he too began his political career from the same … Read more
Karnataka chief minister BS Yediyurappa on Thursday hinted that he may not continue as the CM after July 26, when the state government will complete two years in power, and that he will abide by the BJP leadership’s decision. In a resigned tone, the CM said he is waiting to receive a message from the … Read more
Karnataka chief minister BS Yediyurappa on Tuesday stood his ground on the Mekedatu project across the river Cauvery and said Tamil Nadu has not properly understood the points he explained in his letter to his Tamil Nadu counterpart MK Stalin. There are no legal hurdles for Karnataka to go ahead with the project, though Tamil … Read more
In a setback to Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa, a special court for public representatives on Saturday dismissed the ‘B-Report’ by the Lokayukta police seeking the closure of investigation against him in a 15-year-old case relating to denotification of prime land in Bengaluru. The court also directed the Lokayukta police to expedite the investigation and … Read more
RT-PCR negative report mandatory for travellers from Maharashtra (Image Source: PTI) Passengers entering Karnataka from neighbouring state Maharashtra will have to either show RT-PCR negative report or certificate for covid vaccination, stated an official order issued on Tuesday. The move comes at the backdrop of the Delta plus variant which, according to INSACOG (a consortium … Read more
Senior BJP legislator AH Vishwanath once again went public on Friday demanding the party leadership to replace chief minister BS Yediyurappa as he said the public opinion was not in favour of the state government. “When we helped BJP come to power in the state in 2019, the central leadership gave Yediyurappa a two year … Read more
BJP national general secretary Arun Singh has laid out a six-point programme for Karnataka’s ministers to take the party closer to people as the assembly polls are less than two years away. Singh, who is in charge of the party affairs in Karnataka, spent about two hours with ministers on Wednesday evening, on the first … Read more
The Opposition Congress in Karnataka resorted to a sit-in in the well of the assembly on Tuesday demanding resignation of six ministers for moving a court to overcome a suspected blackmail threat, and an independent probe led by the high court chief justice into the CD with a video clipping that allegedly showed former minister … Read more