‘Congress dividing people through religion’

April 15, 2023

In an exclusive interview with NewsX, our sister organization, B.Y. Vijayendra shares his political journey after BJP decides to field him from Shikaripura. Q: The next generation of the BSY family is going to contest the poll finally from Shikaripura after the initial din over your fighting from Varuna constituency....

Siddaramaiah in a pickle, now demands ticket from Kolar

April 14, 2023

With the BJP dropping a bomb by nominating Lingayat strongman V Somanna to contest from Varuna constituency from where former chief minister Siddaramaiah is fielded by the Congress, the AHINDA (acronym for OBC, SC/ST and minorities) leader now seems to be in a tricky situation and has now requested the...

Siddu finds an enemy, DK a friend in Kharge

December 15, 2022

It is all coming to a full circle in Karnataka Congress as Mallikarjun Kharge took charge as AICC president. The change in dynamics has affected the big two—former chief minister and CLP leader Siddaramaiah and KPCC president D. K. Shivakumar. In 2006, after getting a political re-birth with a wafer-thin...

Confident of defending border dispute with Maharashtra: Karnataka CM

November 30, 2022

The almost 19-year-old Karnataka-Maharashtra border dispute case will be heard in the Supreme Court on Wednesday, and Chief Minister Basavaraja Bommai said that he is confident that senior lawyer Mukul Rohatgi will argue effectively on behalf of Karnataka.Responding to the media after meeting senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi in New Delhi...

Karnataka Congress mops up Rs 25 cr from ticket aspirants

November 23, 2022

In what may be seen as a new precedence, the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee has collected over Rs 25 crores from over 1250 ticket aspirants from the party. Monday was the last date to receive applications from prospective candidates for the 2023 assembly elections in the state.Sources in the party...

Shivakumar, Siddaramaiah spar over entry of turncoats to party

November 5, 2022

While the pictures of bonhomie between state Congress president D K Shivakumar and legislative party leader Siddaramaiah during Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra in Karnataka was widely talked about, just days after the yatra both the leaders are sparring over the inclusion of over 15 MLAs who defected to BJP...

BJP, BSY NEED EACH OTHER MORE THAN EVER

August 19, 2022

Whoever wrote the political obituary of former chief minister Lingayat strongman B.S. Yediyurappa and added him to the latest list of BJP’s margadarshak mandal, will now have to swallow their pride! Just a fortnight after BSY declared that his son B.Y. Viyendra would be his political heir by making a...

Act tough, go aggressive: Amit Shah to Karnataka CM Bommai

August 6, 2022

Ever since the hijab controversy broke out, last year, the Karnataka BJP which has been bracing up for the all important assembly elections in 2023, had been revitalized to play the Hindutva card in the elections. However, now seems to have been counter-productive, with Yuva BJP karyakarthas breathing fire against...

SPECIAL COURT GRANTS BAIL TO SHIVAKUMAR, 4 AIDES IN ED CASE

August 3, 2022

The special Enforcement Directorate (ED) court on Tuesday granted bail to Karnataka state Congress president, DK Shivakumar and four others in a case related to money laundering. Speaking to mediapersons in Delhi after securing bail, he said: ‘’ none of us have done any wrong. We have confidence in the...

SOCIAL MEDIA ABUZZ WITH SIDDARAMAIAH’S ‘ANTI-VOKKALIGA’ STAND

July 29, 2022

Even today, whenever former Chief Minister Siddaramaiah is in Mysore, he stays in his close aide Mariswami’s house, a Vokkaliga from Kuppegala, where Siddaramaiah did his schooling. But the paradox is that it is widely perceived that he is anti-Vokkaliga. So much so that, in recent days, social media platforms...