Congress wrests Karnataka, BJP in gloom

The incumbent Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) is lagging behind to its opposition Congress Party and Janta Dal (Secular) in the initial trends of the counting that has begun since morning. The counting of the votes has begun for all 223 seats where ...

With the Congress emerged as a single-largest party in Karnataka assembly polls, Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Wednesday said winning with an absolute majority is a matter of pride for us. "Karnataka's victory is a moment of pride," Dikshit ...

Bangalore, May 9: His party -- Karnataka Janatha Paksha (KJP) could not match to its expectations during assembly election in Karnataka but BS Yeddyurappa has not been lamenting over the meek response of the voters. Rather the former Chief

India News: The picture, the BJP leaders are now portraying, is that of a party that has become "pure" after the exit of Yeddyurappa, who has been credited with mostly being responsible for installing the party's first-ever government in the South ...

Describing Yeddyurappa, who quit BJP late last year and formed a regional party Karnataka Janatha Paksha, as a "swayamsevak" who had been a dedicated BJP worker, Bharti said she had been attached to the former Karnataka chief minister.

Five years after he brought the Bharatiya Janata Party to power in Karnataka, former chief minister and Karnataka Janatha Party leader B S Yeddyurappa is today on a mission to wipe out his former party. In a brief interaction with rediff.com's Vicky Nanjappa, Yeddyurappa spells out his political plans after the assembly election on May 5. "My party has changed but I have not. I am still a humble man, a farmer and I will continue to strive for the poor. The people have begun to realise the ...

Janata Dal Secular supremo and former prime minister H D Deve Gowda on Monday did not rule out the possibility of his party emerging as a "king" in the May 5 Assembly elections in Karnataka, witnessing a multi-cornered contest also involving BJP, Congress and Karnataka Janatha Paksha. Gowda, whose party had run coalitions with Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party in the state, said that in politics, "nobody should be pessimistic" and cited the examples of Bahujan Samaj Party and SP which had ...

In a major blow to Karnataka Janatha Party (KJP) leader BSYeddyurappa, two of his close loyalists— Umesh Katti and Basavaraj Bommai—have decided to continue in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). They also attended a district-level ...

In continuing desertions from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party in poll-bound Karnataka, three more Members of Legislative Assembly on Thursday quit the party, apparently to join other parties before the assembly elections in May. Two of them -- Madal Virupakshappa and S V Ramachandra -- are set to be candidates of B S Yeddyurappa's Karnataka Janatha Paksha while Raju Gouda alias Narasimha Naik is in touch with the Janata Dal - Secular, sources said. Gouda had resigned from the cabinet recently ...