In order to increase reservation in education and employment for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in the state, the Karnataka government on Thursday submitted the proposal to the ventral government for inclusion of Karnataka Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Reservation in Posts in
In the run-up to the Karnataka Assembly elections, Union Home Minister Amit Shah is scheduled to visit the poll-bound state giving pace to the Bharatiya Janata Party's campaign.
"BS Yeddyurappa (BSY) was not planning to retire, but he retired to make a BSY-free BJP. When they learned that there is no credible face in BJP, they again started roaming around holding hands with Yeddyurappa", MLA Kharge said.
Karnataka Congress Chief DK Shivakumar on Friday said that the party wants to give more tickets to women and youth, ahead of assembly elections in the state.
The Congress Central Election Committee will meet in the national capital on March 17, Friday, to pick the candidates for the upcoming Karnataka Assembly elections, sources said.
Bharatiya Janata Party national president JP Nadda will chair a meeting of the party's national general secretaries at the party headquarters on Wednesday evening to deliberate on the agenda to analyse and prepare further for the upcoming elections.
Former Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa on Monday, said "PM Modi has confidence in me and I have confidence in him. For making sure that Modi Ji becomes PM again, we will work hard towards winning maximum seats in Karnataka assembly elections and also Lok Sabha elections".
Terming Congress as a special purpose vehicle for Independence, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday said that the party neither had any cultural ideology nor any ideology related to the economy and formation of the nation.
Shah gave examples of providing gas cylinders to the 10 crore women who bore the pain of cooking food for their families in firewood at the cost of their health.