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Karnataka polls: Outgoing CM Bommai wins from Shiggoan for 4th time in row
Haveri: Outgoing Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Saturday registered his fourth consecutive victory from the Shiggoan constituency in Haveri district, defeating his nearest rival Yasir Ahmed Khan Pathan of the Congress…
- India
AAP scores in Jalandhar, runs out of luck in Karnataka elections
New Delhi: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) came up trumps in the by-election to the Jalandhar Lok Sabha seat but its fortunes seemed to have nose-dived in the Karnataka Assembly elections, where…
- Bangalore
Karnataka elections: ‘South Kicks Out BJP’ trends on Twitter
As the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) conceded the defeat after the Karnataka election result showed a full-on dominance by the Congress, ‘South Kicks Out BJP’ trended on Twitter on Saturday. By losing…
- India
Karnataka polls: ‘Nafrat ka bazaar bandh…’: says Rahul Gandhi
New Delhi: Former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Saturday thanked the people of Karnataka on party’s expected victory and said that “market of hate has been shut and shops of love have…
- Telangana
Karnataka results will have no bearing on Telangana: KTR
Hyderabad: Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) working president and Telangana minister KT Rama Rao remarked that the Karnataka election results will have no bearing on the upcoming Telangana elections end of this year.…
- India
Lingayat factor deals blow to BJP in north Karnataka
Hubbali: The massive victory of the Congress in the seven districts of north Karnataka is considered as a major setback for the BJP in its bastion. The BJP, which held 40 seats…
- India
No one contacted me till now…: Kumaraswamy ahead of counting of votes in Karnataka
Bengaluru: With hours to go for the final results of the Karnataka Assembly polls to be declared, JD(S) leader HD Kumaraswamy on Saturday said that he has not been contacted as yet…
- India
Manipur: 5 BJP MLAs among 10 tribal legislators demands separate state for tribals
Imphal: Amid the ethnic unrest in Manipur, 10 tribal MLAs of various parties, including that of the BJP in a significant development, on Friday, indirectly demanded a separate state for the Kuki…
- Bangalore
‘We will see tomorrow’, Kharge on BJP’s claims of forming govt with JD-S
Bengaluru: Responding to reports suggesting the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) holding talks with the Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) in Karnataka over forming the government, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge on Friday said “we will…
- India
Bajrang Bali very angry with BJP: Tejashwi Yadav
Patna: Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav on Friday invoked the “Bajrang Bali” metaphor to predict a less than favorable outcome for the BJP in Karnataka assembly polls. “Lord Bajrang Bali is…
- India
When BJP comes to power, it stops projects started by Cong govts: Gehlot
Jaipur: Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Friday alleged that whenever a BJP government is formed in the state, it stalls the projects started by a Congress government. He cited the Barmer…
- Bangalore
Kharge, Sonia to decide on CM post: Shivakumar
Bengaluru: Karnataka unit Congress President D.K. Shivakumar on Friday claimed there is a huge wave for his party in the state, while underlining that INC president Mallikarjun Kharge and his predecessor Sonia…
- Telangana
KCR faces anti-incumbency challenge as he attempts to score a hat-trick
Hyderabad: The Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) will have anti-incumbency and history stacked against it when it faces the Telangana Assembly elections in the next few months. The K. Chandrasekhar Rao-led BRS will…
- Opinions
BJP’s loss would mean rejection of ‘double engine sarkar’ in Karnataka?
Double-engine government (the same party BJP in the centre and the same party in the state), if BJP loses in Karnataka, may lose its only engine (government) in southern India. Actually the…
- Telangana
BJP promises to fill 2L govt job vacancies in Telangana if voted to power
Hyderabad: Slamming the BRS government over the TSPSC paper leak issue, Telangana BJP president Bandi Sanjay Kumar has said his party would fill up two lakh job vacancies and annually release ‘job…