Poll Updates

Bengaluru, Apr 13: The Bharatiya Janata Party on April 8, announced the first list of 72 candidates who will contest the May 12 Karnataka assembly polls. Among them 57 are the ones who had contested in 2013. Karnataka Election Watch and Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) that have analysed the affidavits of incumbent MLAs, revealed that 19 of the 57 sitting BJP MLAs who have secured tickets

Bagalkot, Apr 13: The State BJP President B S Yeddyurappa on Friday expressed confidence that the BJP would repeat the performance in Karnataka it had registered in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections. "Just 29 days remain for Assembly elections and the dream of Congress free Karnataka will be a reality," he said at a party convention here. He called upon the party workers and leaders not to

Chitradurga, Apr 13: The police resorted to lathi charge to control the situation when Molakalmuru MLA S Thippeswamy's supporters hurled stones and footwears at MP B Sriramulu's car on Friday morning at Nayakanahatti. As the police caned mob, hundreds of them ran helter-skelter. Several BJP workers who had gathered at Thipperudraswamy temple to receive the MP fled to safety. For a while, the

Belagavi, Apr 13: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) National President Amit Shah on Friday said that the wave in favour of BJP in Karnataka has forced Chief Minister Siddaramaiah to change his assembly constituency from Varuna to Chamundeshwari and people in the state will bring the party to power with a huge majority. Speaking to reporters at Kittur town in the district after paying tributes to the

Udupi, Apr 13: In a move that could directly harm the Congress party and indirectly benefit the BJP in Udupi, the Janata Dal (Secular) has decided to field its candidates in four of the five assembly constituencies in the coastal district and back Bahujan Samaj Party candidate in the remaining one constituency. Yogesh Shetty, president of district unit of JD(S) told media persons that his party

Bengaluru, Apr 13: Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah and Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee chief D G Parameshwara have reportedly been asked by the party high command not to contest more than one seat in the May 12 Assembly elections. With growing clamour among many leaders to contest from two segments, the party has decided to reject all proposals and will give an opportunity to other

Bengaluru, Apr 13: The BJP's nationwide fast led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi will result in the saffron party's sanyaas (renunciation) in the Karnataka Assembly elections followed by vanvaas (exile) in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, AICC national spokesperson Randeep S Surjewala said on Thursday. "The time for upvas (fasting) is over. The time for sanyaas from seat of power begins with a defeat in

Hubballi Apr 12: BJP supremo Amit Shah, who visited Siddharooda Mutt here on Thursday to seek the blessings and support for the upcoming Karnataka assembly polls, was taken aback when Sri Paramarooda Swamiji of Seemikeri directly demanded the saffron party’s B Form to contest the polls from Bilagi constituency in Bagalkot district. "I have already campaigned in 130 villages, and have forwarded an

Bengaluru, Apr 12: The Congress party on Thursday requested Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah to contest the upcoming elections from Badami Assembly constituency too. Congress leaders from Badami in Bagalkote district met the Chief Minister and said that if he contests the polls from their region then it will benefit the party in north Karnataka. Siddaramaiah, however, said that the leaders

Bengaluru, Apr 12: Karnataka BJP president B S Yeddyurappa has warned his party’s candidates that they would not get expected results in the Assembly elections if they failed to woo Dalits and backward classes in their constituencies. Speaking at a pre-poll workshop of the BJP on election management, the former chief minister stressed the need for taking all the communities with the party to