Can Congress end BJP's 20-year winning spree in Bengaluru? Here's what we knowHistorically, the Congress has faced challenges in securing victories across all three seats. In Bangalore South, the BJP has enjoyed an un...
12 Apr, 2024, 10.58 AM IST
Siddaramaiah in Maharashtra: Congress’ stratagem to turn Dhangar votes?Having led a landslide victory in the May 10 polls in Karnataka and cemented his position as a champion of backward classes and minorities,...
27 Jun, 2023, 10.59 PM IST
BJP's Hind card will outplay Congress's Ahinda strategy, says CT RaviRavi, a sitting MLA in Karnataka, also came in defence of his party leader and chief minister Basavaraj Bommai, who has been under continuo...
09 Apr, 2023, 11.48 PM IST
Karnataka Polls: BJP banks on recast Quota Policy to combat Congress's Ahinda cardThe Basavaraj Bommai government's decision to increase the reservation quota for STs from 3% to 7% and for SC's from 15% to 17%, as well as...
30 Mar, 2023, 12.11 AM IST
Bengaluru: Kuruba rally unlikely to upend Congress vote bankThe backward community accounts for an estimated 7% of Karnataka’s population and as its political influence rises, there is a scramble amo...
09 Feb, 2021, 11.08 AM IST
It's inflection point for state Congress with Siddu's resignationA section of the Congress leaders wants the 71-year-old leader to continue to lead the party and considers his leadership indispensable in ...
12 Dec, 2019, 11.15 AM IST
Moves on Lingayats and Vokkaligas cost Siddaramaiah dearThe damage was so intense that Siddaramaiah, who confidently expected Vokkaligas to vote for him in his old constituency of Chamundeshwari,...
16 May, 2018, 07.25 AM IST
Siddaramaiah offers crown to foe Kumaraswamy years after expulsion from JD(S)Siddaramaiah was thrown out of the JD(S) for anti-party activities following his sharp differences with its leadership over Kumaraswamy's g...
16 May, 2018, 06.30 AM IST
Politicians play the caste formula in KarnatakaThe Vokkaligas and Lingayats are expected to vote according to their traditional preferences, for the JDS and BJP.
11 May, 2018, 10.40 AM IST
Will the AHINDA card work for SiddaramaiahHe has framed policies and made targeted interventions among the microscopic communities to stitch together the alliance.
10 May, 2018, 02.25 PM IST
Suspect JDS getting indirect funding from BJP, says SiddaramaiahKarnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said the BJP was indirectly funding Gowda's JDS and India was an ATM for the saffron party.
10 May, 2018, 11.46 AM IST
Amid Siddaramaiah-Sreeramulu contest, less-known Mavinamarad of JD(S) is putting up a fightMavinamarad quit the Congress a year ago to join the JD(S), is making it a triangular fight.Observers say it is a straight contest between ...
08 May, 2018, 06.30 PM IST
How smaller OBC votes can swing big battlesIdigas hold the key in several Dakshina Kannada, Shivamogga and Kalaburagi seats while Nekaras are significant in the north.
28 Apr, 2018, 11.52 AM IST
Ahinda to Gen Z, here's everything about the Karnataka pollsHere's the A to Z in the run-up to the southern state’s 14th election to its 224-seat House which currently has 122 Cong MLAs and 40 each o...
22 Apr, 2018, 11.09 AM IST
Back in the ring? Janata Dal (Secular) bets on BSP, NCP pacts to emerge strongerThe regional party, which has been out of power for a decade, hopes that the alliance will help it win the constituencies where it emerged ...
01 Mar, 2018, 01.15 PM IST
Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah most corrupt: Amit ShahSiddaramaiah rode to power in Karnataka in 2013 on the back of the support of the Ahinda. Since then, the Siddaramaiah government is often ...
28 Nov, 2016, 01.34 AM IST
PM Modi has hyped himself up too much: SiddaramaiahThere is nothing wrong in favouring the Ahinda, who have always been wronged, but I have been inclusive in most of my programmes, says Sidd...
14 May, 2015, 05.00 AM IST