Tag: Karnataka Polls

Bhubaneswar: The wrangle for power in Karnataka is at its nail-biting best. No matter how much one reads into the script, the plot that unfolds leaves even the best poll analysts surprised. No wonder, such high drama has also triggered speculations as to what if Odisha ends up in a Karnataka-like situation of a hung […]

Bengaluru: Heightened security and extra vigil have turned Karnataka’s secretariat, which houses the state legislature, into a fortress on Saturday for the crucial floor test of BJP Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa in the hung assembly. “Elaborate security arrangements have been made at the secretariat and the nearby legislators’ home to facilitate smooth conduct of the […]

New Delhi: BJP President Amit Shah on Thursday justified his party forming government in Karnataka with B.S. Yeddyurappa taking oath as Chief Minister and hit out at Congress President Rahul Gandhi for terming the political developments as “mockery of Constitution”. “The murder of democracy happened the minute a desperate Congress made an ‘opportunist’ offer to […]

New Delhi: The micro-blogging platform registered over 30 lakh tweets related to Karnataka assembly polls in the past three weeks, with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) garnering 51 per cent of the share of voice, Twitter announced on Wednesday. Congress registered 42 per cent and Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) seven per cent of mentions on Twitter […]

Bangarapet (Karnataka): After having lost the assembly elections in Maharashtra, Goa, Assam and Himachal Pradesh among other states, it was time for the Congress to bid adieu to Karnataka, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said here on Wednesday. “It is now time for the Congress Party to depart Karnataka. Wherever in the country there has been […]

Kolar (Karnataka): Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Monday took a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi by likening him to a mobile phone, saying that “Modiji uses only speaker and airplane mode and not work mode”. Gandhi’s retort came in response to a query from reporters about Modi’s jibe at an election rally that the […]