In old Mysuru region, Shivakumar and Gowdas fight for Vokkaliga leadershipThis time, the JDS first family also has the heft of the BJP. The former prime minister and his son have been campaigning for both JDS and ...
Karnataka: BJP holds out olive branch after JDS show of defianceThe former CM had been upset over the way the BJP announced candidates for 20 seats without consulting it, and over not inviting the party ...
Ex-PM Deve Gowda's son-in-law Manjunath to meet Yediyurappa, likely to join BJPBJP and JD(S) are in an alliance in Karnataka and, according to sources, JD(S) may contest in three seats -- Mandya, Hassan and Kolar, and ...
What is Congress's Operation Hasta to counter BJP's Lotus if Karnataka throws fractured mandate?Karnataka election: Exit polls predict a tight contest between the Congress and the BJP in the high-stakes Karnataka Assembly polls with mo...
Congress and JDS tap commuter angst on Bengaluru-Mysuru expresswayJDS youth wing president Nikhil Kumaraswamy led a protest in Bengaluru on Thursday urging authorities to stop toll collection till the proj...
Sonia Gandhi joins Bharat Jodo Yatra in Karnataka; 60 seats at stake in Vokkaliga beltThe Gandhis arrived at Pandavapura by helicopter on Thursday morning after spending the previous two days at a resort in Kabini when the ya...
JDS leader H D Kumaraswamy calls GST regime 'monster symbol' of curtailing states' financial autonomy"The GST regime has stood like a monster symbol of curtailing the financial autonomy of states in the federal system of governance. The GST...
Congress, JD(S) tense as BJP win may weaken them furtherA lot depends on the outcome of the byelection for the Congress and the JD(S). Siddaramaiah, who is also the leader of the Opposition, is p...
7 Short, but BJP confident it’ll win trust voteBJP’s legal brains are exploring if it is possible to lure away MLAs from the rival camp without attracting the anti-defection law.
Nitish Kumar-led JD(U) in search of a new party symbol as it plans national forayJD(U) Rajya Sabha members KC Tyagi and RCP Singh took this issue to the EC in March and submitted an application that a new poll symbol be ...
JD(U) plans to change symbol from 'arrow' to 'wheel'Nitish Kumar said that efforts are on to change the JD(U) symbol from arrow to 'Chakra' (wheel) as the party lost many seats due to confusi...
Janata Party merger turns tricky since all six are regional parties, says ex-CEC SY QuraishiOne such circumstance is a post-Bihar poll scenario, where the strength of the performance may give the new party enough proportion of vote...
Nitish Kumar in Delhi to merge Janata Parivar into 'Samajwadi Janata Party or Dal'Kumar will be in Delhi after which efforts to formally merge the five parties of Janata Parivar into 'Samajwadi Janata Party or Dal' will b...
Janata Parivar to meet on Sunday; merger announcement likelyThe six parties of erstwhile Janata Parivar could announce decision to merge following a meeting in which name of new political entity will...
- Samajwadi Janata Dal merges with Gowda led JD(S)
Bihar-based Samajwadi Janata Dal (Democratic) led by former MP Devendra Yadav on Tuesday merged with the Deve Gowda led JD(S) ahead of the ...
- In Kerala, CPM bullies allies into submission
Parties usually enter into political contracts for mutually beneficial reasons. But CPM allies, it appears, are duty bound to swell the kit...
- JD(S) sets out to woo minorities
Wooing minorities, Dalits and backward classes through symbolic gestures is the new JD(S) mantra ahead of next month’s transfer of power to...