Senior Congress leader Luizinho Falerio has been appointed the Chairman of the party's Screening Committee for poll-bound Karnataka, where assembly elections are due in 2013. Union Minister Jitender Singh and AICC general secretary in-charge for the state Madhusudan Mistri are other members of the five-member Committee. ...
12:48 AM, Mar 17, 2013
As the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) continued to crack down on his supporters in the ruling dispensation, Karnataka Janata Paksha (KJP) president BS Yeddyurappa on Tuesday threatened retaliation, hinting that he is no longer keen on survival of the Jagadish Shettar government in the state. ...
05:34 PM, Dec 25, 2012
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday appeared to have finalised the formula for the leadership change in Karnataka. According to sources, while the party has decided to make former chief minister BS Yeddyurappa's aide Jagadish Shettar the CM, it is likely to send Sadanand Gowda to the Rajya Sabha. Following a meeting of the BJP, sources further said that KS Eshwarappa is slated to be made the...
08:49 PM, Jul 07, 2012
New Delhi: With several loyalists of B S Yeddyurappa gunning for his head, Karnataka Chief Minister D V Sadananda Gowda on Monday said he would accept any "direction" issued to him by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leadership. "Right from the beginning I used to say I am a disciplined soldier of the party. Whatever direction my party gives I am prepared to accept it," he told reporters in New...
05:16 PM, Jul 02, 2012
Bangalore: The Karnataka government of DV Sadananada Gowda was plunged into a fresh crisis on Friday with eight ministers loyal to former chief minister BS Yeddyurappa resigning from the government demanding a change in the chief ministership. Yeddyurappa has been leading a rebellion against state government and demanding that his loyalist Jagadish Shettar should be the Chief Minister of Karnataka replacing Gowda. This came hours after as many as 10...
06:54 PM, Jun 29, 2012
Bangalore: In a fresh trouble for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in Karnataka, as many as 10 ministers loyal to former chief minister B S Yeddyurappa have threatened to resign from the state Cabinet by Friday evening. The ministers have demanded that the Central leadership should take a call on the change in chief ministership. The ministers have been demanding that Chief Minister Sadanand Gowda be replaced by Yeddrurappa's...
04:39 PM, Jun 29, 2012
Bangalore: Former Karnataka chief minister B S Yeddyurappa and housing minister V Somanna were on Wednesday granted bail by a Lokayukta court in a case relating to alleged irregularities in denotification of land. Yeddyurappa and Somanna appeared personally before special Lokayukta court judge N K Sudhindra Rao, who granted bail to them, Somanna's wife Shailaja and one Lingaraju and posted the case to June 30 for further hearing. On March...
08:15 PM, Jun 20, 2012
Former Karnataka chief minister B S Yeddyurappa on Thursday showered praises on Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi. ...
05:02 PM, May 24, 2012
Bangalore: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Central leadership is deputing a two-member team including its senior leader Arun Jaitley to defuse the crisis that has besieged the ruling party in Karnataka in the wake of revolt by former chief minister B S Yeddyurappa. Jaitley accompanied by Dharmendra Pradhan, who is also in-charge of BJP affairs in Karnataka, will arrive in Bangalore on Friday and during their two-day stay will interact...
05:49 PM, May 17, 2012
Bangalore: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday conducted raids at eight premises belonging to former Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa, his sons B Y Raghavendra, B Y Vijayendra and son-in-law Sohan Kumar in Bangalore and Shimoga district. The raids by the investigating agency were carried out a day after registering of an FIR against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader. Meanwhile, CNN-IBN has accessed the details of...
05:36 PM, May 16, 2012
Mysore: Hours after the Supreme Court ordered an enquiry by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) into the allegations against former Karnataka chief minister B S Yeddyurappa, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader alleged that it was a conspiracy against him to make him an accused. "The Supreme Court has ordered probe into illegal mining that pertained to my tenure as Chief Minister. I request the Prime Minister to order...
05:35 PM, May 11, 2012
Bangalore: The special Lokayukta court in Bangalore on Friday issued summons to former Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa and his aide V Somanna in connection with land denotification case. The court has asked Yeddyurappa and his aide to appear before it on April 30. Ordering issue of summons, judge N K Sudhindra Rao directed Yeddyurappa, Somanna, his wife and a person named Lingaraju to appear without fail on the...
07:27 PM, Apr 13, 2012
New Delhi: In the latest development with regard to the Karnataka political crisis, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday decided to reinstate B S Yeddyurappa as the Chief Minister of the state, said sources. According to sources, Karnataka Chief Minister Sadananda Gowda has complained to the party high command against the decision. Gowda has in fact maintained that he has been asked to continue as the Chief Minister of...
05:20 PM, Mar 22, 2012
India signals it may back off from the Norway child custody case. Pressure builds on BJP leadership to reinstate Yeddyurappa as Karnataka CM. ...
11:48 PM, Mar 21, 2012
New Delhi: Former Karnataka chief minister B S Yeddyurappa on Wednesday reached New Delhi to meet the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) high command over the ongoing political crisis in Karnataka following the loss of the party in the Udupi-Chikmagalur bypoll. On his arrival in the national capital, when asked about his becoming the new Chief Minister of Karnataka, Yeddyurappa said, "I have no idea. I can only tell after meeting...
10:47 PM, Mar 21, 2012
Bangalore: In further relief to former Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa, the High Court on Tuesday granted him anticipatory bail in a case relating to an alleged land scam, holding no allegation of monetary benefit has been made out in the complaint. Justice Subhash B Adi also allowed the anticipatory bail pleas of housing minister Somanna, his wife Shailaja and land owner Lingaraju in the case pertaining to alleged...
07:20 PM, Jan 17, 2012
Nothing is ever certain in an ever changing world and most of all political power. If there was any doubt about that then 2011 dispelled it completely. In more ways and more cases than one it was truly the year of the fall of some of South India's most powerful regional chieftains. Starting with Karuna, to Yeddy and the Reddys in Karnataka to Jagan Mohan in Andhra Pradesh, they all...
04:50 PM, Dec 15, 2011
Bangalore: A Karnataka Lokayukta police officer who investigated former chief minister B S Yeddyurappa is shifted out. The officer also claims threats from former prime minister H D Deve Gowda. The senior police officer in the Karnataka Lokayukta, JV Gaonkar, was transferred out for writing that he was threatened by former prime minister Deve Gowda for ordering raids on his son Balakrishna Gowda. According to observers, the transfer had nothing...
11:28 PM, Nov 12, 2011
Bangalore: The hearing of former Karnataka chief minister B S Yeddyurappa's bail plea was on Monday adjourned till October 28. Earlier, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader had withdrawn his interim bail plea and then applied for regular bail. His counsel had on Friday sought a three-day bail so that Yeddyurappa could spend Diwali with his family at home. The BJP leader's plea was opposed on the ground that he...
05:36 PM, Oct 24, 2011
Bangalore: The bail plea of former Karnataka chief minister BS Yeddyurappa will come up for hearing on Friday. On Thursday, Yeddyurappa's counsel told the Karnataka High Court that no prima facie case could be made out against him under the Prevention of Corruption Act in connection with the land scams. Meanwhile, petitioner Sirajin Pasha opposed his bail plea in the High Court. Yeddyurappa was arrested on October 15 after a...
08:16 AM, Oct 21, 2011
