Karnataka: Sumalatha Ambareesh to join BJP, refrains from contesting Lok Sabha polls against KumaraswamyMandya MP Sumalatha Ambareesh announced her decision to join the BJP instead of contesting the polls this year, a relief for JDS leader HD ...
04 Apr, 2024, 01.26 AM IST
Kumaraswamy to contest as NDA candidate from Mandya, Sumalatha’s future uncertainJD(S) leader H D Kumaraswamy hinted at contesting the Lok Sabha elections from the Mandya constituency, stating that an official announceme...
26 Mar, 2024, 08.46 PM IST
BJP should retain Mandya seat, it will send message to Old Mysuru region: Sumalatha AmbareeshSumalatha Ambareesh denied that she ever approached the Congress for a ticket. In fact, it was the other way round, she added. Her husband ...
11 Mar, 2024, 01.38 PM IST
With Congress name out & JDS likely to get Mandya, will Sumalatha contest again as independent?Sumalatha Ambareesh, the only independent candidate to have won in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, is keen to seek reelection from Mandya. With t...
10 Mar, 2024, 07.36 PM IST
Lok Sabha polls: Congress will win atleast 20 seats in Karnataka, says CM SiddaramaiahThe BJP swept the 2019 Parliamentary polls in Karnataka by winning 25 seats, while an independent (Sumalatha Ambareesh from Mandya) backed ...
18 Feb, 2024, 02.08 PM IST
Amit Shah to discuss LS poll strategy with Karnataka BJP leaders todayHe also said the meeting is likely to discuss facing the polls together with alliance partner JD(S), with proper coordination between worke...
11 Feb, 2024, 01.33 PM IST
JD(S)-BJP LS poll understanding: Discussions are at initial phase, says KumaraswamyStating that no one is indispensable to anyone, either for him or for the BJP, Kumaraswamy further said the JD(S) had already contested par...
11 Sep, 2023, 01.54 PM IST
Karnataka polls: JD(S) leader H D Kumaraswamy's son Nikhil loses in RamanagaramAnitha Kumaraswamy, the wife of H D Kumaraswamy, is the outgoing MLA of the Ramanagaram segment. Nearly three decades after Ramanagaram pro...
15 May, 2023, 12.26 PM IST
Karnataka polls: Congress' Ravikumar Gowda wins Mandya by 2,019 votesIn 2018, JD(S) candidate M Srinivas won the seat by defeating Congress' P Ravikumar by a margin of 21,608 votes.
13 May, 2023, 05.49 PM IST
South Indian film actor-turned-MP Sumalatha unlikely to join BJP now, to decide on a party laterThe ruling party, which won 25 of 28 Lok Sabha seats in Karnataka in 2019, does not have a strong presence in Mandya district.
27 Apr, 2022, 06.57 PM IST
Congress would have won 10 seats without JDS: Sumalatha AmbareeshThe wife of deceased Kannada star-turned-politician Ambareesh said the JDS-Congress coalition regime looked shaky from day one.
06 Jun, 2019, 07.43 AM IST
Karnataka JDS chief quits, flays functioning of coalitionVishwanath also apologised for the "disparaging remarks" made by some JD(S) leaders against Sumalatha Ambareesh during the election campaig...
04 Jun, 2019, 05.12 PM IST
Nihil vs Sumalatha: Election Commission intervenes, government transfers Mandya DCThe government has ordered the new DC to immediately take charge without any loss of time.
09 Apr, 2019, 09.27 PM IST
Three Sumalathas join fray to ‘confuse’ votersThe presence of three other Sumalathas is being seen as an attempt by the ruling JDS-Congress combine to confuse voters.
27 Mar, 2019, 08.47 AM IST
Sumalatha Ambareesh accuses CM Kumaraswamy of misusing powerSumalatha said that there were instances of a few men trying to gather information from her security guards and attempting to take photogra...
25 Mar, 2019, 04.08 PM IST
Sumalatha Ambareesh to take on Nikhil Kumaraswamy in Mandya as an independentBJP is expected to throw its weight behind her by not fielding any candidate from the Mandya constituency.
19 Mar, 2019, 10.00 AM IST
LS polls: Congress rules out fielding late Ambareesh's wife from MandyaSections within the Congress were hopeful of gaining the Mandya seat, banking on Ambareesh's popularity in the region and sympathy wave fol...
05 Mar, 2019, 03.51 PM IST