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Change of trend in Karnataka: Even Lingayat didn't vote for BJPCongress had fielded 46 Lingayat candidates, of whom 37 won. Only 15 Lingayats from BJP secured victory, though it fielded 69 candidates fr...
Congress slaves of one family, Karnataka future in PM's hands: Nirmala SitharamanSitharaman said Congress leaders were liars by character and that they never fulfilled their promises in any of the states they were electe...
Congress bankrupt, dependent on BJP defectors: Amit ShahShettar left BJP and joined Congress last week after he was denied a ticket. He will be contesting the assembly elections from his home tur...
Karnataka election: BJP plans steps to counter Congress's Lingayat campaignBJP leaders discussed ways to counter Congress charges and remove doubts from the minds of voters with polls less than three weeks away.
BJP Lingayat leaders discuss about next CM from the communityThe meeting, held on Wednesday late evening at Yediyurappa’s residence in Bengaluru in the presence of chief minister Basavaraj Bommai and ...
BJP's leaders raise "Lingayat CM" pitch to counter Congress narrativeThe politically influential Lingayat community forms about 17 per cent of the State's population, mostly in northern parts of the State whi...
Congress counts political dividends after 2 key Lingayat leaders join it, BJP seeks to counter narrativeChief Minister Basavaraj Bommai, a Lingayat himself on Tuesday in Bagalkote said, one or two Lingayat leaders from BJP defecting to other p...
Congress, BJP seek to corner each other over Lingayat 'pride'Admitting Shettar, a six-time BJP MLA from Hubli-Dharwad Central, into Congress on Monday, KPCC president DK Shivakumar claimed Lingayat le...
Karnataka Polls: Congress seeks to corner BJP over Lingayat self-respect, BJP hits backThe Opposition Congress hit out at the BJP after formally admitting Jagadish Shettar into the party. The six-time BJP MLA from Hubli-Dharwa...
Congress reaches out to Lingayats as BJP deals with BSY 'retirement'Congress lost its influence over the community after then party CM Veerendra Patil was humiliated and sacked by party chief Rajiv Gandhi mo...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi subtly plays Lingayat card as BJP seeks to arrest their drift to Congress in KarnatakaThe warm relationship between the two leaders is not new. When Yediyurappa formed the first full-fledged BJP government in Karnataka in 200...
Shivakumar rejects allegations Congress is targeting Bommai as he is Lingayat"Has he (Bommai) become the Chief Minister on the basis of his Lingayat caste? He is in power as per the Constitution. We are targeting the...
Congress drifts in Chikmagalur amid fading Indira folkloreShankar is the Congress candidate from the Chikmagalur assembly constituency, seeking votes in the name of the very ‘hand’ he once tried to...
Expect many shocks in Karnataka as parties face tough poll contestMany of the incumbent and former ministers of all parties, too are walking the extra mile to ensure their win stressed by the tough contest.
Siddaramaiah pilloried for 'rowdy-speak' against YeddyurappaBJP spokesperson S Suresh Kumar, taking serious umbrage at this usage by the CM, said: “This is not the kind of language that a CM should u...
Unlike Mulayam Singh Yadav & Karunanidhi, Karnataka CMs keep kids outSources in the opposition admit that Siddaramaiah is reluctant to see his children in politics, similar to the stand adopted by CMs like Ra...
Siddaramaiah's son prove to be 'Achilles Heel', but he is not the first one in KarnatakaSiddaramaiah is accused of nepotism in the awarding of a contract for a lab at the government-run Victoria Hospital in Bengaluru to a compa...