As the state capital, Bengaluru, grappled with a drinking water crisis, former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda on Tuesday said the state should continue to release water from the Cauvery River to neighbouring Tamil Nadu.
Former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda has played a big role in addressing the problems of Karnataka and everyone was proud of him as he has been the first Kannadiga to hoist the Kannada flag atop the Red Fort, said Former Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai.
Former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda on Friday stated that he will visit Ayodhya with his family on January 22 and attend the 'Pran Pratishtha' event at the Ram Temple.
Janata Dal-Secular (JDS) Chief and former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda congratulated the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday as it is comfortably heading towards a landslide triumph in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan.
Newly appointed Leader of Opposition in the Karnataka Assembly, R Ashoka called on former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda at the latter's residence here on Saturday.
The High Court of Karnataka on Monday once again ordered the re-issuing of summons to HD Revanna, son of former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda, in connection with a case of alleged election irregularities.
Hours after triggering a political storm by claiming that the LDF government in Kerala had consented to an alliance of the Janata Dal (Secular) with the BJP, former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda has backtracked saying that he never said that CPM in Kerala supports BJP-JDS alliance.
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Friday rejected former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda's claim and termed his statement as "untrue" and "absurd".
"I want to congratulate the Prime Minister. He has taken the decision yesterday in the cabinet which was pending since 1996 when the UF (Unted Front) government led by me took the Women's Reservation Bill in 1996," former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda said.
Amid speculations of an alliance with the JD(S) ahead of the Lok Sabha elections next year, BJP leader R Ashoka clarified on Friday that the tie-up hadn't been finalised yet as the final call on the same rests with the party's high command.
Former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda submitted a memorandum to PM Modi on issues focusing on the Hassan Green Field airport project in Karnataka; allocation of waters of inter-state rivers Cauvery, Krishna, Mahadayi and inclusion of Kunchitiga as a sub-caste of Vokkaliga in central list of OB