Amid speculations over the chief ministerial face in Karnataka after Congress' emphatic victory in the Assembly polls, state party president DK Shivakumar on Sunday said that he has no differences with Siddaramaiah, who is being seen as a front-runner for the position of the top post.
The Congress party has won the Kittur Karnataka region from BJP, securing 33 out of 50 seats while retaining the Kalyan Karnataka region with 26 out of 41 seats in the state assembly elections announced on Saturday.
Speaking to ANI on Saturday, after the Congress raced past the majority mark in Karnataka, Pilot said, "The lesson that the BJP government at the Centre should draw from the defeat in Karnataka is that if they don't focus on development issues and only whip up issues around caste, religio
With the Congress' emphatic victory in the Karnataka elections on Saturday, ousting the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from power in the only southern state ruled by it, Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge said the election results marked a "BJP-free South India".
As the counting of votes for the Karnataka Assembly elections gave a clear edge to the Congress, the grand old party on Saturday shared a video featuring Rahul Gandhi during his Bharat Jodo Yatra.
Congress leader Siddaramaiah on Saturday launched a scathing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi after the mandate for the grand old party in the Karnataka Assembly elections and said that the Prime Minister's face value had done no good for the BJP in the state.
BJP karnataka Party state president Nalin Kumar Kateel said, "I take responsibility for the defeat as the state president. I will work responsibly as a good opposition party in the state."
The Election Commission on Monday issued a notice to the BJP's Karnataka president Nalin Kumar Kateel for publishing an advertisement in an English daily with "unsubstantiated" claims, as alleged by the Congress.
Ahead of the May 10 Karnataka Assembly elections, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday appealed to people not to vote for the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the state.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday slammed Congress over its promise to restore quota for Muslims in Karnataka and talking of an increase in quota to six per cent and said that the party should make it clear if it will slash the benefits of SCs, STs, Lingayats or Vokkaligas.
Attacking Congress over "appeasement politics" ahead of Karnataka assembly elections, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday said the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will not allow Muslim reservations in the state.
Sukhu said, "The mood of the people of Karnataka is moving towards change. For the past 4 years, BJP has been in power in Karnataka and today people are raising questions about employment, inflation, and the schemes that BJP brought in the last 4 years, through which unemployment has increas