Karnataka elections 2023 Highlights: Karnataka will poll in a single-phase on May 10, while counting of votes will happen on May 13. Over 9.17 lakh first-time voters will vote in this year's elections. The term of the current assembly will expire on May 24. A total of 5.21 crore people are eligible to vote
Karnataka election updates: In February last year, Amit Shah urged the people to give a chance to former chief minister BS Yediyurappa for forming a corruption-free government. He said that Congress and Janata Dal (Secular) are dynastic parties and such parties can never work for the welfare of the people.
Karnataka election updates: Infighting is wrecking Congress’s chances. Bigwigs Siddaramaiah and DK Shivakumar are jostling for the CM post without waiting for voters’ mandate. Congress’s campaign is missing cohesiveness and strategy
Reddy, who is an accused in an illegal mining case, had recently formed "Kalyana Rajya Pragati Paksha" (KRPP), snapping his two-decade-old association with the BJP.
Karnataka Elections: Srinivas was accused of cross-voting in the June 2022 Rajya Sabha polls, which according to the JD(S), contributed to the defeat of its candidate D Kupendra Reddy.
Karnataka polls 2023: The four percent reservation has been re-apportioned equally to the Lingayats and Vokkaligas, leaving the Muslims to compete for the 10 percent reservation provided for Economically Weaker Sections of the general category, which is decided based on family income.
JD(S) leader and former Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy met West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in Kolkata last week and requested the TMC boss to campaign in the Karnataka Assembly polls.
The Congress is the first party to release its candidates’ list for the elections in Karnataka. The Election Commission is yet to announce the schedule for assembly polls in the southern state.
Karnataka election updates: The Old Mysuru region accounting for 57 seats in the Karnataka assembly has been the weak link in BJP’s electoral strategy for decades. The party is making a determined push for dominance in the region but a breakthrough doesn’t look like happening in this election
Santhosh Kamath will fight the poll from Mangaluru South, Vijayanath Vithal Shetty from Mulki-Moodbidri and Sumana Bellarkar from Sullia, AAP Dakshina Kannada unit president Ashok Adamale told the press.
Chinchansur, a prominent leader of the Koli-Kabbaliga community in the Kalyana Karnataka region, resigned from his post of Member of the Legislative Council on Monday.
The Vijay Sankalp Yatra started on March 1 across Karnataka. The four parts of the yatra were launched from Chamarajanagar, Bidar, Belagavi, and Bengaluru.
Karnataka election news: All the deputy CMs BJP appointed since 2008, in the hope that they would become leaders to reckon with, have disappointed. Amid this lack of political imagination and ambition, can Shobha Karandlaje, who has survived many political downturns, make an impact?
The Aam Aadmi Party plans to field candidates in all 224 Assembly seats in Karnataka in a bid to increase its presence in the state.
Karnataka election updates: After the 2019 Lok Sabha election two factions have been created in Kolar. Former speaker Ramesh Kumar versus former Union Minister KH Muniyappa which is creating trouble for Siddaramaiah.
Karnataka polls: Bengaluru city accounts for one-eighth of the seats in the Karnataka assembly, and one-fourth of the city's MLAs are ministers too. Despite the city’s woeful infrastructure, most incumbents keep winning. Could committed and mobilised voters amid low voter turnouts explain this phenomenon?
Addressing a public meeting, he said, Congress leaders are involved in corruption, commission, criminalisation, and divide and rule is their policy.
The Wayanad MP will hold a meeting with the Congress leaders and workers regarding the preparations made for the Yuvakranti Samavesha in Belagavi, which is scheduled on Monday afternoon.
For decades, the BJP has struggled to spread its wings in the Vokkaliga community-dominated Old Mysuru region, with the well entrenched JD(S) and Congress holding sway.
The former Chief Minister, who took part in the Congress' Central Election Committee meeting in New Delhi, said, the meeting also discussed regarding poll strategy and Rahul Gandhi's visit to the state.
Karnataka polls: Both BJP and Congress have to deal with powerful regional leaders and factionalism in Karnataka, which constrains the choices before the high commands of both parties in cultivating loyalties, awarding tickets and driving political strategy
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Nadda will arrive at the Toranagallu Airport on Friday afternoon and will participate in the party's 'Vijaya Sankalpa Yatre' at Challakere from 3 PM, PTI wrote quoting BJP's State general secretary Siddaraju. Karnataka Assembly Elections 2023 are due in May.
The decision to hike the salaries is made after several rounds of talks between the government and employees of KPTCL and ESCOMs, and transport corporations on the demand for wage revision. Karnataka Assembly elections are due by May.
The victory-obsessed BJP high command has pushed former chief minister BS Yediyurappa to the fore in the election campaign putting CM Basavaraj Bommai in the absurd position of being the captain who can’t lead his side