Karnataka Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and former chief minister BS Yediyurappa's son B Y Vijayendra who got the party ticket from Shikaripura on Wednesday hit out at Congress for creating a divide in the Lingayat community and assured that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the part
Arvind Chauhan, who was BJP Kalaburagi District Yuva Morcha General Secretary and former Zilla Panchayat member, has resigned from the Bharatiya Janata Party after he was denied a BJP ticket from Chittapur assembly constituency.
Congress leader and former minister KJ George filed his nomination from Sarvagna Nagar constituency on Tuesday for the upcoming Karnataka Assembly elections.
The Banjara community has influence in more than 30 Assembly seats out of 224 in Karnataka. Aware of this, the Bharatiya Janata Party and Congress have fielded 13 and 3 candidates, respectively, from the influential community.
The wealth of Congress's Karnataka chief DK Shivakumar has increased by 68 per cent as compared to 2018, the affidavit filed by him while submitting his nomination papers filed for the May 10 Assembly polls have revealed.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin and DMK leader Kanimozhi might campaign for the Congress ahead of the Karnataka Assembly election next month, sources in the grand old party said.
BJP on Monday announced its candidate for the Hubballi-Dharwad Central seat hours after former Karnataka Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar joined the Congress as the electioneering picked up momentum in the southern state with the nomination process to end in two days.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday exuded confidence that the newly fielded candidate Mahesh Tenjinakai will win the Karnataka Assembly polls with a margin of 50,000 votes.
Karnataka Congress president DK Shivakumar on Monday filed his nomination from Kanakapura constituency in the Ramanagara district for the State Assembly polls and said that the party will surpass the 150 seats mark in the 224-member Karnataka Legislative Assembly.