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11:41 PM, Mar 29, 2012
Former Prime Minister Deve Gowda clarified that nobody offered him bribe and that he was never influenced by anybody. ...
09:42 PM, Mar 29, 2012
Bangalore: Former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda on Thursday denied he was approached by middlemen over defence deals, the claim which was earlier made by his son HD Kumaraswamy. Speaking at a Press Conference in Bangalore, Gowda said, "I do not want to react more than what has been written by former cabinet secretary TSR Subramanian in his book. There is no need for me to give any explanation, this...
06:18 PM, Mar 29, 2012
Bangalore: Janata Dal Secular leader and former Karnataka chief minister HD Kumaraswamy has claimed that his father HD Deve Gowda was offered bribes when he was the Prime Minister. "When my father HD Deve Gowda was the Prime Minister, middlemen used to approach him and try to bribe him to procure defence deals," Kumaraswamy claimed. Reacting to Kumaraswamy's claim, BJP leader Balbir Punj said, "It reconfirms the fact that bribes...
03:48 PM, Mar 29, 2012
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: JDS supremo H D Deve Gowda on Thursday alleged that former Karnataka chief minister BS Yeddyurappa was controlling the BJP government in the state from jail. "... Yeddyurappa sitting inside the jail is controlling the government. No doubt about it... Yeddyurappa is not in the seat but he controls everything. Whole world knows (it)," he told reporters here. Gowda claimed Chief Minister D V Sadananda Gowda could not remove...
07:00 PM, Oct 27, 2011
Bangalore: Former Karnataka Chief Minister and JDS leader HD Kumaraswamy on Saturday began an indefinite fast pressing for a CBI probe into ruling BJP's charge that his family members amassed illegal wealth to the tune of Rs 1,500 crore. Kumaraswamy, son of former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda, accompanied by thousands of JDS workers marched from his party office to the Freedom Park, the venue of his fast. The BJP...
11:51 AM, Jul 09, 2011
New Delhi: Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar has called for an all-party meet on Wednesday to discuss the Women's Reservation Bill. Looking to provide 33 per cent reservation to women in Lok Sabha and state assemblies, the Bill was passed by the Rajya Sabha in 2010. The Samajwadi Party and the Bahujan Samaj party have decided to boycott the meeting. The bill is being opposed by the Samajwadi Party, Rashtriya...
08:50 AM, Jun 22, 2011
Bangalore: JDS supremo HD Deve Gowda on Tuesday favoured Prime Minister and higher judiciary also to come under the ambit of the proposed Lokpal bill. "Except the President, all elected representatives should come under Lokpal", the former Prime Minister told in response to questions. Gowda argued that since the proposed Judges Accountability bill does not deal with corruption, judiciary also should come under the Lokpal purview. On the much talked...
08:43 PM, Jun 21, 2011
Bangalore: JDS chief H D Deve Gowda on Friday demanded that the Karnataka Governor H R Bhardwaj exercise his constitutional powers and dismiss the Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa-led BJP ministry in the wake of Supreme Court setting aside disqualification of 16 MLAs. Terming the disqualification order as an act of "fraud played on the Constitution", the former Prime Minister appealed to Bhardwaj to take a decision whether "this government...
07:14 PM, May 13, 2011
What is one to make of Manmohan Singh? Is he a clean politician forced by circumstance to travel with a boatload of crooks? A radical economic reformer trapped in the wrong party at the wrong time? Or is he just plain incompetent and irresponsible? Consider his recent statements and actions (or rather, in-actions). He dismissed A Rajas 2G skullduggery as being the result of coalition politics. Apparently, coalition compulsions are...
02:19 PM, Mar 18, 2011
Bangalore: In what could be seen as a counter to Governor HR Bhardwaj'sanction of prosecution against BS Yeddyurappa, a complaint was on Monday filed against four former Karnataka chief ministers, including SM Krishna, before a judicial commission set up by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government to investigate land scams. Vinod, an advocate, submitted the complaint seeking an investigation into denotification of lands during the rule of Krishna, now External...
11:43 AM, Jan 24, 2011
Bangalore: Seeking to turn the heat on Opposition JD-S, Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa's loyalists on Wednesday, charged the party chief HD Deve Gowda and his family with amassing "black money", saying they would produce documents to back their claim. The Chief Minister's Political Secretary, BJ Puttaswamy alleged that during the six-month period from March to August 2006 when Deve Gowda's son H D Kumaraswamy's was chief minister, members of their...
08:43 PM, Dec 15, 2010
Bangalore: Suspected JDS supporters attacked the residence of a key aide of Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa after he made allegations of land grabbing against former Prime Minister and their party chief HD Deve Gowda. Police said the supporters pelted stones at the house of Yeddyurappa's Political Secretary B J Puttaswamy on Tuesday night, damaging window panes and also a car, hours after he levelled the charge. They also raised...
12:16 PM, Dec 01, 2010
Bangalore: The Karnataka government, it seems, could finally survive the crisis after a late night drama on Thursday at a Goa hotel following which rebel BJP MLAs have indicated that they'll return to the Yeddyurappa fold. Twelve rebels MLAs holed up at the Taj Exotica in Goa held the key to the Yeddyurappa government remaining in majority in the Karnataka Vidhan Soudha. Rebel leader Renukacharya told a local TV station...
06:05 PM, Oct 07, 2010
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