Sadananda Gowda, who assumed charge as Karnataka chief minister on Thursday, has a tough task ahead. Ironically, that task is not the administration of the state, but to keep the Bharatiya Janata Party flock in Karnataka together.
Gowda said the campaign will be held in three phases and he will be participate in all three. He also said that a national executive committee meeting of the party will be held in February to take stock of the developments.
He rubbished claims that Kumaraswamy was set to leave the JD-S and said that the JD-S would soon begin its election campaign.
Prakash, former state home minister, who has launched a banner of revolt against Gowda for certain 'unilateral' decisions adopted by him on party matters including toppling of the BJP-led coalition government, called the meeting to decide future course of action.
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.
Former Karnataka Chief Minister Sadananda Gowda will battle it out against Congress strongman Narayanaswamy in this IT hub constituency of Bangalore North, which is all set to vote on development, infrastructure issues. Vicky Nanjappa reports.
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Today even those who support Prime Minister Modi feel there is a certain sense of listlessness in this government. What is it intending to achieve? This is not easy to say, notes Aakar Patel.
The Congress government in Karnataka will provide financial assistance to those allegedly sexually assaulted by Janata Dal-Secular leader Prajwal Revanna, the national party said on Sunday.
The former prime minister said that he will take a decision about transferring power to the BJP after meeting top party leaders on September 27.
How the ambitions of Deve Gowda's third son Revanna nixed the BJP's first shot at power below the Vindyas.
The crime investigation department booked Prajwal, grandson of former prime minister HD Deve Gowda, after a JD-S worker from Hassan lodged a complaint against him.
Rajnath did not say anything about the exact date of power transfer
Karnataka Home Minister Dr G Parameshwara on Thursday said a lookout circular has been issued to arrest Hassan Janata Dal-Secular MP Prajwal Revanna who is facing allegations of sexually abusing women.
Manoranjan D was associated with a social media page 'Bhagat Singh Fan Club" and appeared to be a "revolutionary type", police sources said.
The role is tailor-made for Diganth.
Amid simmering tension in Mandya over the removal of Hanuman flag from a 108 feet tall flagpost, the Keragodu village Panchayat Development Officer has been suspended.
Ace Indian discus thrower Vikas Gowda has qualified for the Rio Olympics after the world athletics governing body, the IAAF lowered the entry standards "to have more athletes" taking part in the track and field events in the 2016 Games.
Party workers who sat alongside Gowda told rediff.com that the man did not talk a word throughout the cardiac operation which lasted almost three hours.
He said the Congress not only humiliated his party leaders but also tried to engineer defections and bring about a split.
Priyanka Gandhi asked whether Prime Minister Narendra Modi will remain silent on the matter.
The BJP will do a 'Munnabhai' over former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda using unparliamentary language against Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa, bysending him a 'get well soon' message.
Municipal Administration Minister Bhalachandra Jarkiholi on Wednesday threatened to pull down the Bharatiya Janata Party government if Chief Minister D V Sadananda Gowda was replaced.
With the Indian Air Force asking former prime minister H D Deve Gowda to make a payment of over Rs 54 lakh for using its aircraft, allegedly for non-official purposes, the former prime minister said on Thursday that the amount has to be paid by the political party concerned.
There seems to be no end to the woes of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party in Karnataka.The meeting of the legislature party -- to elect Jagadish Shettar as its leader and the next chief minister -- has been delayed following a massive protest by supporters of incumbent CM Sadananda Gowda.
Gowda is not expected to come to any conclusion immediately and would seek another round of talks with the BJP in which he would try and convince them to continue with the same combination.
Ace discus thrower Vikas Gowda won the silver medal in the IAAF Diamond League Series in Doha, on Friday.
India's Vikas Gowda became only the seventh Indian to qualify for the finals of a track and field event at the Olympic Games when he hurled the disc to 65.20 metres for automatic qualification.
The in-fighting within the Bharatiya Janata Party has taken its toll and the party has lost the prestigious constituency of Udupi-Chickmagalur to the Congress. The by-election to this Parliamentary constituency, which was earlier held by Chief Minister D Sadananda Gowda, was won by the Congress candidate by over 40,000 votes.The seat had fallen vacant as Gowda had resigned as a member of Parliament after he was appointed the chief minister.
The Bharatiya Janata Party's first list of 20 candidates for Lok Sabha elections in Karnataka has caused dissidence among leaders in the state with few claiming that they would switch over to Congress.
Are Karnataka Chief Minister Sadananda Gowda's days numbered? Former chief minister B S Yeddyurappa, who is currently camping in New Delhi, has raised his pitch to change Gowda, a move that is being strongly opposed by senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader L K Advani.
The petition was filed by a few independent legislators in which they sought the disqualification of the JDS legislators after they entered into an alliance with the BJP 21 months back and formed the government without the approval of the party high command.
India's Vikas Gowda qualified for his maiden finals in the World Championships with a creditable 63.99m effort in the men's discus throw qualification round in Daegu, South Korea, on Monday. He hurled the disc to 63.99m in his second attempt to qualify for Tuesday's finals, as the eighth best out of 12.
Moves are being made by senior leaders of Janata Dal (Secular) for his expulsion from the party.
Of the two rate structures on the table, one suggests tax slabs of 8 per cent, 16 per cent, and 24 per cent. The other proposes tax slabs at 9 per cent, 18 per cent, and 27 per cent.
Bharatiya Janata Party President Nitin Gadkari on Tuesday night spoke to Karnataka Chief Minister Sadananda Gowda over phone on the issue of two ministers of the state being caught on TV camera watching allegedly porn clippings on mobile phone during state assembly proceedings in Bangalore.
Gowda through senior advocate Shanti Bhushan had moved an application seeking the withdrawal of Justice Arijit Pasayat from the matter on the ground that the judge was going to retire in three months.
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday named 72 more candidates for the Lok Sabha elections, including Union ministers Nitin Gadkari, Piyush Goyal and Anurag Singh Thakur, and former chief ministers Manohar Lal Khattar, Trivendra Singh Rawat and Basavaraj Bommai.
Janata Dal-Secular leader and former Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy on Wednesday hinted that his party was interested in the agriculture portfolio in the new National Democratic Alliance government.
