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In the last week of February 2022, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi called for a meeting of around 20 senior leaders, including Siddaramaiah and DK Shivakumar. Sunil Kanugolu was part of Kishor’s team that spearheaded the Bharatiya Janata Party’s 2014 Lok Sabha campaign The meeting came amid a raging controversy in the state over barring Muslim girls wearing hijab from entering …

Weeks ahead of the Karnataka Assembly elections, posters targeting the state Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai were spotted across Bengaluru on 19 April. As per media reports, after scanning the QR code, the posters redirect to a '40 per cent Sarkara' website set up by the opposition Congress. However, Congress' state unit posted a video of a young man on Twitter …

Karnataka chief minister Basavaraj Bommai slammed the Congress on Saturday for "playing filthy tactics" after posters with the BJP leader's image - along with a QR code with “PayCM” written above them - were circulated in Bengaluru this week. ‘PayCM’ photos with Karnataka chief minister Basavaraj Bommai's likeness were seen in Bengaluru on Wednesday "They come to the house without …