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Fissures appear in BJP-JDS alliance days before joint campaign

BJP leader G. Devaraje Gowda, who contested for Holenarasipur Assembly seat during the Assembly elections last year, had written to BJP State president B.Y. Vijayendra in December 2023, informing him about the video clips related to Prajwal Revanna. In his letter, which was released to the media recently, Mr. Devaraje Gowda opposed the BJP’s probable alliance with the JD and …

Karnataka Bharatiya Janata Party President BY Vijayendra on Friday questioned the opposition alliance of their prime ministerial candidate and asserted that the prime ministerial candidate of the BJP is Narendra Modi. In this Lok Sabha election, the Congress party will not win even 40 seats," Karnataka BJP President said. READ | HDK’s ministership is JD election strategy in Mandya During …

BJP State president B.Y. Vijayendra, who visited Hassan on Thursday, said that all BJP workers, including former MLA Preetham Gowda, will campaign for JD-BJP alliance candidate Prajwal Revanna in Hassan. Speaking to presspersons in Hassan on Thursday, Mr. Vijayendra said if Prajwal Revanna had to win, everyone had to campaign for him. Answering a question on the differences within the …

The Congress government in Karnataka has "sacrificed" the drinking water needs of the state's farmers and citizens for the "selfish" coalition politics of INDIA alliance, state BJP President B Y Vijayendra alleged on Thursday, following DMK's promise to stop construction of Mekedatu dam in its manifesto for the Lok Sabha polls. READ | BWSSB to supply water to Bengaluru's Chinnaswamy …

Union Home Minister Amit Shah has given state leaders a “winning formula” for the Lok Sabha elections to win all 28 seats in Karnataka in alliance with JD, by converting Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s popularity into votes, state BJP president BY Vijayendra said on Sunday. "Amit Shah's Mysuru visit was successful.He said that in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls the …

BENGALURU: BJP state president B Y Vijayendra predicted that the BJP-JDS alliance will win all 28 Lok Sabha seats in Karnataka, and said Chief Minister Siddaramaiah may have to quit politics after the poll results. He was hitting back at Siddaramaiah for his statement that he would quit politics if his allegations that the Centre has not released the state’s …

BJP-JD(S) alliance will win all 28 seats in Lok Sabha elections next year: HD Kumaraswamy

Amidst caste census row, BJP attempts to stitch a Lingayat-Vokkaliga alliance

The Bharatiya Janata Party, smarting from a humiliating Assembly poll defeat in Karnataka, is trying to script a comeback by stitching a Lingayat-Vokkaliga alliance which in the past has proved electorally formidable. This ensured the defeat of Congress in 2018,” said a senior BJP party strategist, adding that a lot also depends on how Karnataka government and Congress handles the …

The leadership of BJP's new alliance partner in Karnataka -- JD -- was among the political leaders who congratulated B Y Vijayendra on his appointment as the new president of the saffron party's state unit. The BJP on Friday appointed Vijayendra, the younger son of veteran leader and former Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa, as its state unit president. BJP, …