Facing fresh trouble after the Supreme Court ordered a Central Bureau of Investigation probe into his alleged role in illegal mining, former Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa on Saturday held consultations with his loyalists on his political future.
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday released its second list of candidates for the Lok Sabha polls. The Election Commission has cleared 52 candidates of which 20 are from Karnataka.
Founder president of Karnataka Janata Party Padmanabha Prassana Kumar on Wednesday claimed that he faced threats to his life in Karnataka from B S Yeddyurappa, who is heading KJP now, and he wanted 'political asylum' in Tamil Nadu. Kumar alleged that he has been receiving threats from Yeddyurappa and his son ever since he wrote to the Election Commission stating that KJP had decided to revoke the decision to nominate Yeddyurappa as state unit president.
In a relief to former Chief Minister and KJP leader B S Yeddyurappa, the Karnataka high court on Tuesday quashed a land grab complaint against him.
Former Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa finds himself in a spot of bother, yet again after the Bharatiya Janata Party announced Jagadish Shettar, also a Lingayat as the chief ministerial candidate in the next elections. Ironically, Yeddyurappa himself had installed Shettar's as the CM when he was with the BJP. Vicky Nanjappa reports.
Former Karnataka chief minister B S Yeddyurappa on Thursday said that he was confident of getting a majority and forming the next government.
All the 13 legislators, who resigned from the Karnataka assembly membership on Tuesday, will also give up their primary membership to the Bharatiya Janatha Party.
A Central Bureau of Investigation court in Bangalore Tuesday directed former Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa and his two sons to appear before it on March 23 in connection with the illegal mining kickback case.
"There is no crisis in Karnataka. Our government will complete its term. There is nothing to suggest anything to Jagadish Shettar as he is a very intelligent person," BJP president Rajnath Singh said.
Karnataka Governor H R Bhardwaj has accepted the resignations of two Bharatiya Janata Party ministers -- Shobha Karandlage and C M Udasi. The two ministers, who had tendered their resignations to Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar, will now join B S Yeddyurappa's Karnataka Janata Party.
The BJP in Karnataka appears to be on the brink of losing its government now, as 14 members of Legislative Assembly have reached the Vidhan Soudha to tender their resignations.
Power minister and former Karnataka chief minister B S Yeddyurappa loyalist Shobha Karandlaje is all set to announce her exit from the Bharatiya Janata Party.
The much-publicised threat to topple the first Bharatiya Janata Party government in the south by the newly formed Karnataka Janata Party of B S Yeddyurappa turned out to be a damp squib as the maiden meeting of the former chief minister's outfit on Friday postponed the deadline to January 15.
Eager to stall the presentation of an election budget by the state government headed by Jagadish Shettar, B S Yeddyurappa's Karnataka Janatha Party is holding its executive committee meeting in Bangalore on Friday to finalise 'an action plan' to bring down the first Bharatiya Janata Party government in the south.
Karnataka Janata Paksha president B S Yeddyurappa Saturday described the Congress win in May 5 assembly polls as good for the state, but said it remained to be seen how the party was going to govern.
Although the much-touted Yeddyurappa impact has managed to split the BJP votes in Karnataka, the newly-formed KJP has nothing to cheer about over its performance in polls, notes Vicky Nanjappa.
The Bharatiya Janata Party was on Wednesday decimated in the Karnataka assembly elections with Congress set to form a government, may be on its own, wresting power after a gap of seven years.
Former Bharatiya Janata Party leader B S Yeddyurappa's ominous warnings about destroying the party in the state assembly election were not merely empty threats. On poll verdict day, not only is the ruling party lagging behind the Congress, which is leading by a considerable margin, it may not even be able to flex its muscles as the main opposition party in the next five years. The Janata Dal Secular is likely to beat it to that position.
Serving anxious moments to the Bharatiya Janata Party government in Karnataka, party MLA Basavaraj Patil Attur, a known loyalist of former chief minister B S Yeddyurappa announced that he would resign his assembly membership on Friday.
Even as voting began on a dull note in Karnataka, leaders from across parties expressed confidence about their performance in the ongoing elections.
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday downplayed Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's absence from its national executive meeting in Delhi.
A win on his home turf Hubli has become a matter of both survival and prestige for Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar as he is going the whole hog for a fifth victory from Hubli-Dharwad constituency.
The pre-poll conducted by CSDS for CNN-IBN shows that the Congress party is set to improve its position in the upcoming Karnataka assembly elections and the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party will likely suffer major losses.
The Bharatiya Janata Party has hit back at the Karnataka Janatha Party, which recently made some serious allegations against the party's top leaders, including L K Advani.
The Karnataka Janatha Party's strategy to divide constituencies into two categories could split the vote share of the BJP and Congress, reports Vicky Nanjappa
Former Karnataka chief minister B S Yeddyurappa has called for a meeting of his loyalists to review their decision on whether to topple the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government in Karnataka. The meeting -- slated to be held at his Dollar's Colony residence in Bangalore at 10.30 am on Saturday -- will have 30 Bharatiya Janata Party Members of Legislative Assembly and seven ministers attending it.
Addressing the gathering at the Malleshwaram grounds in Bengaluru, Sushma said she was proud of the work that her party had done in the state.
Opening a new chapter in Karnataka politics, former Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa On Sunday formally launched Karnataka Janata Party and took over as its president at a massive rally in north Karnataka.
The Bharatiya Janata Party has acted against two senior leaders from Karnataka for their public loyalty to former chief minister B S Yeddyurappa. While B Puttaswamy, cabinet minister in the ruling BJP government, has been sacked, Member of Parliament G Basavaraj has been suspended from the party. The decision was taken at the meeting of the core committee of the BJP held in New Delhi on Saturday and announced by Karnataka Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar.
Ignoring party warning, about 23 legislators and seven ministers on Friday attended the breakfast meet hosted by former Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa, who broke away from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party recently, in a virtual expression of solidarity with him.
A complaint was on Wednesday filed in the Lokayukta court against four former Karnataka chief ministers, including former prime minister H D Deve Gowda and External Affairs Minister S M Krishna, for alleged irregularities in the Bangalore-Mysore expressway project.
Some leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party's Karnataka unit are ready to switch their loyalties if the ruling party fails to come back to power.
Karnataka Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar is optimistic about the Bharatiya Janata Party's chances in the forthcoming assembly elections.
Vicky Nanjappa explains Yeddyurappa's Plan B, and tells us what made him go soft on Bharatiya Janata Party today.
The Bharatiya Janata Party has suspended B Y Raghavendra, son of B S Yeddyurappa from the party.
The aggression that former chief minister B S Yeddyurappa often displays in Karnataka's political circles was noticeably absent when he was questioned by the Central Bureau of Investigation in connection with cases of illegal mining and land de-notification. Even as the political uncertainty in the state reached a crescendo on Sunday, Yeddyurappa spent six hours being interrogated by the CBI.
The party is hopeful that the return of the former Karnataka chief minister will boost its performance in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.
Former Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa on Friday said though regional parties were a failure in the state earlier, the Karnataka Janata Party, the new party to be launched by him, would play a stellar role in the "changed political scenario".
Stating that he would resign as Bharatiya Janata Party legislator from the assembly by the month end, former Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa Thursday said he would focus on building his new party.
Nine Karnataka ministers from the B S Yeddyurappa camp withdrew their resignation on Monday after being assured by the central Bharatiya Janata Party to resolve the ongoing crisis.
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