BENGALURU: With Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar and former chief minister HD Kumaraswamy continuing their slugfest over Hassan JDS MP Prajwal Revanna’s alleged sex scandal, leaders cutting across party-lines, close to both of them, feel it is unwarranted, even as it is imperative for the guilty to be punished. Former minister V Somanna, speaking his mind, on Thursday suggested that …
The fight for the Vokkaliga vote is picking up steam in the Old Mysore region where the community is seen as the dominant one in electoral politics. Kumaraswamy-led government in 2019, and at Mr. Kumaraswamy himself for his “anti-mutt stance.” The meeting of JD and BJP leaders with the seer follows the earlier meeting of Congress leaders, including Chief Minister …
Even as the suspense over Karnataka Chief Minister continues, Congress’s top contender Siddaramaiah told a senior Vokkaliga MLA on Tuesday night that it has to be “either him or a third person, but not his competitor DK Shivakumar". Plus, the AHINDA — Minorities, Backward Classes and Dalits — have voted for the Congress in a big way, hoping that Siddaramaiah …
Ahead of the Congress Legislative Party meeting in Bengaluru, the supporters of DK Shivakumar and Siddaramaiah are leaving no stone unturned to intensify pitch for their leaders for the post of Karnatana chief minister. If erecting posters projecting him as the next CM was not enough, supporters of DK Shivakumar gathered outside his residence in Bengaluru and raised slogans of …
