After prominent Lingayat leader Jagadish Shettar defected to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and joined the Congress ahead of the upcoming Karnataka assembly elections, Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Monday said the former Karnataka chief minister would be used and later thrown out by C
"Reservation for SC/STs should be proportional to their population. (The Union government) should lift 50 per cent cap in reservation," Rahil Gandhi said.
Six-time MLA and former Karnataka Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar, who resigned from the Bharatiya Janata Party on Sunday questioned the double standards of the party as on one hand top leadership is giving an opportunity to the younger generation in electoral politics and on the contrary
Shettar, a six-time MLA from the constituency who was reportedly advised by the party to stand down and not seek a fresh term as MLA from the Hubli-Dharwad Central segment, following which his followers expressed their anguish against the party's high command.
The political fight ahead of the Karnataka Assembly elections is intensifying as the Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday sought clarification from Congress regarding its alleged relation with the banned outfit Popular Front of India and its political wing SDPI.
Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) will contest at least 40 seats in the upcoming Karnataka Assembly elections, said the party state president Hari R on Saturday.
NCP is likely to field candidates in the upcoming Karnataka Assembly elections, according to sources. During the 2018 polls, NCP contested 14 seats in Karnataka.
"There is no setback for BJP. Laxman Savadi lost the MLA election, if he was such a big leader, why was he defeated? The fact that he has left the party is a concern for him, not for us (BJP). Congress will soon show him his place" Arun Singh said.
After former Karnataka deputy chief minister Laxman Savadi decided to join the Congress on Friday, BJP Karnataka in-charge Arun Singh said that the former has made a big mistake and will regret it later.
Savadi met the Congress's state president Shivakumar and the Leader of Opposition in the Assembly Siddaramaiah at the latter's residence in Bengaluru on Friday.