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Fierce battle unfolds in Mandya as Kumaraswamy fights all important contest for JD(S)The upcoming Lok Sabha election in Mandya, Karnataka, is shaping up as a contest between H D Kumaraswamy, former Chief Minister representin...
Karnataka Assembly Polls: Battle of survival for JD(S) or kingmaker/king again?Will the 2023 Karnataka Assembly polls be a battle of political survival for former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda-led Janata Dal (Secular) ...
Assembly polls: Caste, corruption, region, religion, rebellion make mark in Karnataka battlefieldThe caste politics in Karnataka is like in the heartland states and every party tries to get the caste mathematics right. Lingayats and Vok...
A farmers' political collective aspires to take on the BJP and JD(S) in Mandya in KarnatakaThe face that stands out prominently, among the posters that are being loaded onto vans, was that of SKP's lead candidate Darshan Puttanaia...
Assembly polls: Battle of survival for JD(S) or king maker/king again?Will the 2023 Karnataka assembly polls be a battle of political survival for former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda-led Janata Dal (Secular),...
Not a setback to BJP, says Karnataka CM after prominent seer's call to stop raking up issue of Uri Gowda, Nanje GowdaA section of people in the old Mysuru belt and some ruling BJP leaders have claimed that erstwhile Mysuru ruler Tipu Sultan did not die fig...
Cong plans to field its lone LS member against Kumaraswamy’s son in Ramanagara to stem JD-S cloutThe regional party holds three out of four seats in Ramanagara district, which includes Channapatna, represented in the assembly by former ...
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...
Kumaraswamy plays down CBI raids & there lies a political message"There is no relation between bypolls and these raids. When a people's representative is fair and has not committed any illegal acts, no ag...
Ex-CM Kumaraswamy skips Vokkaliga rally protesting DK Shivakumar's arrestA few days ago, the JD(S) leader visited Shivakumar’s house at Kanakapura and consoled his mother. He also hit out at the BJP regime at the...
Shivakumar finds himself in the same spot as CM Yediyurappa did eight years agoED arrest of the 57-year old reminds of a similar tough time Yediyurappa went through eight years ago.
In Karnataka, BJP leadership creates three deputies to CM YediyurappaYediyurappa was swore in as the chief minister a month ago after the collapse of the year old JD(S) - Congress coalition government.
Riding on personal popularity, can Kumaraswamy bag two out of two?Three candidates are contesting from dual constituencies –– chief minister Siddaramaiah of Congress, B Sriramulu from BJP and HD Kumaraswam...
DK Shivakumar, the Congressman who knows no defeatIn August last year, Shivakumar hosted a group of Gujarat Congress MLAs at a resort in Bengaluru to prevent cross voting in the Rajya Sabha...
Deve Gowda readies for poll swansongDirectly fighting JD(S) in one region, the Vokkaliga belt, Congress would want to minimize Gowda’s tally to reduce his bargaining power in ...
JDS is BJP's B Team: Expect more strikes from Rahul GandhiThe ‘Sangh Parivar’ jibe came about as an estimated three percent of the JDS voteshare of 20% comprises the Muslims.
Karnataka’s Vokkaliga community pins high hopes on Sadananda GowdaThe spontaneous celebration was spurred by the fact that a Vokkaliga has become a prominent Union minister with the coveted railway portfol...