As the hunt for Khalistan sympathiser Amritpal Singh continues, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday said that there is no Khalistan wave in Punjab and the Centre is keeping a close watch on the situation.
The Bharatiya Janata Party has stepped up its campaign for Karnataka assembly polls with party chief JP Nadda holding a roadshow and rally in Bidar and Union Home Minister Amit Shah holding a meeting with Karnataka BJP leaders
Shiv Sena (Uddhav Bal Thackeray) leader Sanjay Raut on Friday said that union ministers are "engrossed" in the campaigning for upcoming Karnataka Assembly Polls, while crucial issues like Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch terror attack are being ignored.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief JP Nadda held a roadshow in Bidar on Friday in support of party candidates as the campaigning gears up for the state assembly polls scheduled next month.
The battle in the Hubli-Dharwad Central constituency in the upcoming Karnataka assembly elections is set to get more interesting as a 'guru-shishya' fight between two prominent Lingayat leaders has raised election fever in the seat.
Earlier on Wednesday, the Congress released its list of 40-star campaigners for the Karnataka Assembly elections, where a notable absentee was Sachin Pilot.
Highly upset by the exit of two top Lingayat leaders from the Bharatiya Janata Party, former Karnataka chief minister BS Yediyurappa called a meeting of several MLAs belonging to the community to deliberate on the action plan as the state Assembly elections are less than a month from now, so
"I am not angry with BJP... those who have left BJP have to be brought back. We've to bring them back to BJP who are angry with our party and joined Congress. Our candidate will win this seat. BJP will win over 140 seats in Karnataka," Eshwarappa told ANI.
Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Thursday denied having made any decision by the party on the Lingayat chief minister and said that the meeting convened by senior BJP leader BS Yediyurappa was to take stock of the political situation in the state.
"Who do you think you are talking to? We are Kannadigas, we never needed a Narcissist's blessings to prosper. Does BJP get great joy in repeatedly insulting the people Karnataka? Prime Minister & BJP think that the entire nation was built only after 2014?," the Congress leader said in
Manjunath, a former BJP MLC and a prominent Lingayat face, quit the party on Thursday over the denial of the ticket from the Shivamogga constituency and joined the JD(S).