Senior BJP leader and former Karnataka chief minister BS Yediyurappa on Friday delivered a farewell speech in the state Assembly, saying he won't the state polls again but will fight till his last breath to make his party grow.
The greenfield domestic airport at Sogane in Shivamogga district has been constructed under the Centre's UDAN scheme aimed to make air travel affordable to all.
Former Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa said that a suggestion to rename Shivamogga Airport after Rashtrakavi Kuvempu will be forwarded to the Centre.
In the run-up to the big battle of Karnataka, the Bharatiya Janata Party will launch four mega rath yatras which the party is likely to call 'Vijaya Yatras'.
The funeral of Wing Commander Hanumanth Rao Sarathi, who lost his life in an air crash in Madhya Pradesh's Morena on Saturday, was held here in Karnataka's Belgaum on Sunday evening with complete state honour. Former Karnataka CM BS Yediyurappa also attended the last rites of the fallen hero
"Lingayat votes hold the key for our party and without a doubt, BSY is one of our most popular Lingayat faces and we are banking on him to take the saffron surge forward," a top BJP leader told ANI.
"Congress Party leaders talk about compassion to Tipu Sultan and terrorists. The people and law will not spare them if they support terrorists and Tipu Sultan," CM Bommai said while addressing a Jan Sankalp Yatra, on Friday that was attended by former Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa, in Pandav
Amid the 'widening' rift between the former Chief Minister of Karnataka Siddaramaiah and the state Congress chief DK Shivakumar, the latter said that this was only a "political strategy" of the party.
Refuting the opposition's allegation that Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is trying to finish him off, the former Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa said that the party is not neglecting him.