BJP workers decorating Ballari city with part flags on Friday ahead of party’s Scheduled Tribes conference to be held on Sunday. | Photo Credit: SRIDHAR KAVALI The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost deposits in 31 constituencies — 13.8% of the seats the party contested — in the recently concluded Karnataka Assembly elections. Notably, the party … Read more
D. Sridhar Babu, AICC secretary (in-charge of Kalyana Karnataka), addressing a media conference at local party office in Kalaburagi on May 7, 2023. | Photo Credit: ARUN KULKARNI Referring to the audio clip in which Manikanth Rathod, a BJP candidate for Chittapur allegedly expressed his intentions to “finish off” All India Congress Committee (AICC) president … Read more
Mahadev Mahaling Mali, aged 103 years and four months, cast his vote from his home in the presence of election duty officials in Ingali village of Belagavi district on Tuesday. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT A centenarian chose to vote from home in this elections in Ingali village of Chikkodi, Belagavi district, on Tuesday. Mahadev … Read more
Bengaluru Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) Chief Commissioner Tushar Giri Nath, who is also the Bengaluru City District Election Officer, said there have been no cases of alleged digital bribes found in the city so far. Mr. Giri Nath on Tuesday participated in the ‘Meet the Press’ event organised by the Press Club of Bangalore … Read more
State Election Management Committee convener and Union Minister Shobha Karandlaje, State unit president Nalin Kumar Kateel, Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai, BJP national president J.P. Nadda, former CM B.S. Yediyurappa, former CM D.V. Sadananda Gowda, Union Minister Pralhad Joshi release BJP manifesto for the Karnataka Assembly elections, in Bengaluru on May 1, 2023. | Photo Credit: MURALI … Read more
JD(S) leader Kumaraswamy, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi. Karnataka Assembly elections this time around were, according to rhetoric, supposed to be transformative. These polls were to make the BJP go beyond the Lingayat vote, the Congress beyond the Vokkaliga and Ahinda base and the Janata Dal (S) beyond its pocketbrorough of … Read more
The former Chief Minister and BJP leader B.S. Yediyurappa has said that his decision to quit as Chief Minister was based on the overall well-being of the party. | Photo Credit: FILE PHOTO “I resigned from the post of Chief Minister of my own volition. I was not removed by the BJP leadership,” the former … Read more
Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai taking part in a roadshow in Yamakanamaradi for BJP nominee Basavaraj Hundri on Wednesday. P.K. Badiger | Photo Credit: P.K. Badiger The former Minister and BJP leader Ramesh Jarkiholi has been lauded for his work for the party by senior leaders | Photo Credit: FILE PHOTO The former Minister Ramesh Jarkiholi … Read more
A file photo of former CM Jagadish Shettar with BJP national president J.P. Nadda and party veteran B.S. Yediyurappa. BJP is bringing J.P. Nadda to Hubballi to ensure that the cadre does not follow Mr Shettar to the Congress. 1. A day after its senior leader and former Chief Minister Jagadeesh Shettar, after being denied … Read more
Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) president D.K. Shivakumar, Janata Dal (Secular) leader H.D. Kumaraswamy, his brother H.D. Revanna, Housing Minister V. Sommana, and B.Y. Vijayendra, son of former Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa, were among the 842 candidates who filed their nominations for the May 10 Assembly polls on Monday. Aspirants across parties filed their papers … Read more