Newly appointed Union minister V Somanna, who had contemplated quitting the Bharatiya Janata Party and joining the Congress earlier this year, should be thankful to former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda for his current position. According to people familiar with the BJP’s inner workings, Somanna is seen as an influential Lingayat leader, second only to former chief minister BS Yediyurappa. …
Karnataka Election Result 2023 Shikaripura election results: BJP leader BY Vijayendra, son of former chief minister BS Yediyurappa has from the Shikaripura assembly constituencyon Saturday. The BJP leader won the election by securing 49.07 per cent of the total vote in Shikaripura constituency. In 2018, Yediyurappa won this seat comfortably, beating Congress's Goni Malatesh by a huge margin of 35,397 …
Former Chief Minister B.S. Appealing to the party workers, he said if they ensured at least 70% of people in each booth voted for Mr. Vijayendra, he would win with a margin of not less than 50,000 votes. Mr. Vijayendra said that he was contesting for Shikaripur as senior leaders of the party did put pressure on Mr. Yediyurappa and …
This announcement is seen as the veteran BJP leader ending his innings in electoral politics Shivamogga: Karnataka BJP strongman and former chief minister B S Yediyurappa on Friday said his son and party’s state vice-president B Y Vijayendra will be contesting 2023 Assembly polls from his Shikaripura constituency, which he will be vacating. To a question on the demand from …
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