JD(S) leader HD Kumaraswamy on Tuesday alleged that "personal freebies" were being distributed in Bangalore Rural parliamentary constituency from where Congress candidate DK Suresh, brother of Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar, will contest polls
Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister and Congress leader DK Shivakumar said on Friday that more names will be finalised for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections after the screening committee meeting on March 11.
Speaking at a convention of Gruhalakshmi beneficiaries here, he said, "We worship Earth as Mother Earth, every village has a village goddess, women get first preference even in our invitations. Women are the centre of our culture, they are the power driving our country."
Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar today said that his brother and MP DK Suresh is not the type who is scared of threats and all such threats will be handled 'appropriately'.
An FIR was filed against BJP Leader KS Eshwarappa who allegedly said that the law should be implemented to kill people like DK Suresh and Vinay Kulkarni as they are "Jinnah's descendants who talk about the partition of the country".
Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar today accused the BJP of not allowing Congress MP D K Suresh to raise his voice in Parliament on purported injustice meted out to Karnataka.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday hit out at the Congress for creating a north-south divide and ripped through the grand old party for working against the "interests of the nation."
"South Indian states contribute the maximum but are betrayed by the Union government. The budget share for the entire South is less than Rs2 lakh crores while the single state of Uttar Pradesh is Rs2 lakh crores," DK Suresh posted on X.
"Mohabbat Ki Dukan mein Nafrat Ka Saman bik raha hai...They want to divide the country. We will not let the country be divided. First, we saved the country from their loot, and now we will save the country from being divided," the Union Minister told ANI.
Reacting to Congress MP DK Suresh's "separate country" remark, party leader Manickam Tagore on Friday said that such words are "merely personal opinions" and the party does not "authorise them."
Reacting to Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi raising Congress leader and Karnataka minister DK Suresh's "separate country" remark in Rajya Sabha, Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Friday slammed the Union Minister and called it "unparliamentary".