Parties roll out first lists of candidates

The former Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar, who had led the Bharatiya Janata Party's Assembly poll campaign, was on Tuesday unanimously elected its legislature party leader. Similarly, another former Chief Minister D.V. Sadananda Gowda was ...

Most of the houses constructed under the flagship Aasare scheme of the Bharatiya Janata Party government in the villages of Kongawad and Aratti in Navalgund taluk of Dharwad district remain unoccupied. They stretch out in long lines of small yellow ...

The former Chief Minister and president of the Karnataka Janata Paksha (KJP) B.S. Yeddyurappa is expecting a cakewalk in his home turf from where he has won six times before. Only once, in the Assembly elections in 1999, Mr. Yeddyurappa was humbled ...

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The election from Periyapatna Assembly constituency, slated for May 28, is likely to witness a direct contest between Congress and Janata Dal(Secular) with both parties looking to continue their dominance in Old Mysore. Initially, it was expected ...

After nursing political injuries, defeated candidates from the region have gone back to party work, or are keeping low, while some have also started planning the next major political step. For former Minister K. Amarnath Shetty, the face of Janata ...

The Congress high command is likely to probe into an allegation that conspiracy had led to the defeat of Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) chief G Parameshwara in the Koratagere constituency in the Assembly elections. "A four time-MLA, ...

New Delhi, May 8: The Karnataka wipe-out has triggered a blame game in the BJP, sotto voce, but the swords have yet to be unsheathed and whetted. What has shocked the leaders in Delhi is not the defeat ? for some time they were reconciled to the ...

Bangalore, May 8: The judgement day has finally come and poll trends clearly shows that anti-incumbency factor has worked terribly against Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Karnataka Assembly Elections 2013.BJP is staring at a humiliating defeat as ...