Politics

Sudhir Mungantiwar said that the party could not afford to get stuck around the 100-seat mark in the Karnataka Assembly polls.

Actor turned politician, Kamal Haasan said "the Cauvery dispute between Tamil Nadu and Karnataka was not an "insurmountable problem"and that politics was impeding a solution."

Deceased MP Hukum Singh’s daughter Mriganka Singh is the BJP candidate from Kairana while Avani Singh, the wife of deceased MLA Lokendra Chauhan, will fight from Noorpur.

Just last year the heavy unseasonal rainfall had left many areas in this Assembly segment inundated. This 'gateway to the IT hub' needs an infrastructure fix and the chorus for this is only getting louder among the voters.

The PM was apparently referring to the Siddaramaiah government's controversial decision to celebrate ‘Tipu Jayanti’ every year on November 10 to commemorate the memory of Tipu Sultan, the legendary 18th century ruler of Mysore.

The Congress, Modi demanded, make it clear if it had a secret understanding with JD(S) or not. He said it was with the support of Deve Gowda's party that the Congress had its mayor in Bengaluru.

A political expert said that it was a state election and only state related issues should be discussed and debated, not the national issues.

The ruling Congress has accused the BJP-led Centre of using the Income Tax department to “harass” its leaders ahead of voting in Assembly elections on May 12, bringing the tax department into the state’s poll narrative for the first time.

The name of cricketer-turned-politician Sidhu, who switched over from the BJP to the Congress ahead of last year's assembly elections, does not figure in either of the two committees.

The Telugu Desam Party intended the Tirupati rally to be a reminder for the Narendra Modi-led BJP government, which has "failed" to keep up its promises made to the people of the Andra Pradesh.

Rahul Gandhi met Lalu Prasad Yadav on Monday. Prasad was undergoing treatment at AIIMS in New Delhi for a host of ailments for nearly a month.

Yeddyurappa hopes that the people of Shimoga district will vote for the BJP keeping in mind that he will be the chief minister once again if the party is voted to power.

The new BJP faces sworn in as ministers were the party's state unit chief Satpal Sharma and the MLAs from Kathua and adjoining Sambha, Rajiv Jasrotia and Devinder Kumar Manyal, respectively.

Speaking at a job fair organised by the Samast Gujarat Brahma Samaj in Gandhinagar recently, Speaker Rajendra Trivedi had described PM Narendra Modi and BR Ambedkar as “Brahmins” and Lord Krishna as an “OBC”.

The Kairana Lok Sabha seat fell vacant due to the death of BJP MP Hukum Singh in February, while the bye-poll to the Noorpur Assembly seat was necessitated due to the death of sitting BJP MLA Lokendra Singh Chauhan in a road accident the same month.

Farmer leader and president of the Desiya Thenindiya Nadhigal Inaippu Vivasayigal Sangam P. Ayyakannu expressed disappointment that the Madras High Court granted only one-day's permission for the protest.