Bangalore: Karnataka on Wednesday avoided the dubious distinction of delivering a fractured mandate for the third time in a row by giving clear victory for Congress and remained true to its reputation as a graveyard of regional outfits. Two regional parties were founded in just over a year by two former Bharatiya Janata Party leaders with the aim of ousting the "corrupt" national parties, the Congress and the BJP, from the state.
The Congress was set to win 121 seats and was ahead in two while the BJP and the Janata Dal-Secular were tied at second place with 40 wins each. As the millions of votes polled Sunday to elect the state's 14th assembly were counted on Wednesday, the parties formed by former BJP chief minister BS Yeddyurappa and former BJP minister B Sriramulu were set to win less than 10 seats together.
While Yeddyurappa at least had the satisfaction of realising his dream of defeating the BJP, Sriramulu had the mortification of seeing the only glamour quotient in his party, Kannada actress Pooja Gandhi, defeated in Raichur in north Karnataka, supposedly his stronghold.
Yeddyurappa retained his home seat of Shikaripura in Shimoga district but suffered a massive defeat personally when his staunch loyalist and the only woman minister in the BJP government Shobha Karandlaje was relegated to third place in Rajajinagar in Bangalore....
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05:26 AM, May 09, 2013
Congress won the Karnataka Assembly elections on Wednesday by a huge margin. ...
11:36 PM, May 08, 2013
Congress won the Karnataka Assembly elections on Wednesday by a huge margin. ...
11:13 PM, May 08, 2013
Bangalore: The Congress on Wednesday rode back to power in Karnataka after a gap of seven years, dethroning the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) which suffered mainly due to a split with ex-party strongman and former CM BS Yeddyurappa, whose party, the KJP ate into the BJP's vote share, resulting in the decimation of both and giving the Congress an easy path to power in the state. Battered by a series...
08:30 PM, May 08, 2013
JDS leader HD Kumaraswamy said his party will sit in the opposition to protect the interest of the state. "We will expose Congress if it will take illegal decisions. I am not disappointed with the result, will analyse the poll results and work to satisfy the people," he said. ...
05:59 PM, May 08, 2013
Bangalore: As the Congress juggernaut rolled on in Karnataka, 12 Ministers of the Jagadish Shettar Cabinet, including Deputy Chief Minister KS Eshwarappa, fell by the wayside, rubbing salt into the wounds of the vanquished BJP. Eshwarappa's loss in Shimoga is all the more significant as he was a former state unit President of the party and also held the key portfolios of Rural Development and Panchayat Raj and Revenue. Eshwarappa...
05:38 PM, May 08, 2013
Bangalore: BJP on Wednesday suffered a humiliating defeat in the Karnataka Assembly Elections as Congress appeared to be well on its way to wresting power on its own after a gap of seven years. Hit by the exit of former chief minister BS Yeddyurappa and the image of corruption during its tenure in the first government in the south. The party has won three seats and leading in just 36...
01:10 PM, May 08, 2013
Bangalore: The BJP was on Wednesday decimated in the Karnataka Assembly Elections with Congress set to form a government, may be on its own, wresting power after a gap of seven years. The BJP's southern fort where it came to power for the first time in 2008 crumbled and the party is pushed to the third position behind JD(S). Exploiting the split in BJP and the spoiler's role played by...
12:50 PM, May 08, 2013
Bangalore: Former prime minister HD Deve Gowda led JDS, which had hoped to play the role of a kingmaker in Karnataka, on Wednesday said it would sit in the Opposition. "..if people have blessed us to sit in the opposition, we will sit in the opposition," JDS state President and Gowda's son HD Kumaraswamy told reporters, as the results of the May five Assembly polls came in. The JD(S) is...
12:30 PM, May 08, 2013
Bangalore: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has been routed in the Karnataka Assembly elections and has been pushed to the third spot. The Congress has stormed back to power with HD Kumaraswamy-led Janata Dal Secular coming second in the Assembly results announced on Wednesday. Just five years ago Karnataka became the first state in South India to have a BJP government, but the party failed to build on its success...
11:33 AM, May 08, 2013
Bangalore: Former Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa dealt a body blow to the ruling BJP as it appeared set to slump to the third position behind the JDS, as the Congress was struggling towards majority in the Karnataka Assembly, latest trends showed. With trends available for all 223 seats which went to polls on May five, Congress was leading in 111 and has won 7 seats, followed by the JDS leading...
11:20 AM, May 08, 2013
Bangalore: With initial trends available for 221 constituencies of the total 223 which went to polls on May five, the Congress was leading in 105 segments, and has won 7 seats and the ruling BJP is leading in 35. JDS of former prime minister HD Deve Gowda was ahead in 42 constituencies and Karnataka Janatha Paksha of former chief minister BS Yeddyurappa in 14 segments. Initial trends suggested that the...
11:10 AM, May 08, 2013
Bangalore: Counting of votes for the recently held Assembly Elections in Karnataka began this morning amid projections about the Congress' comeback to power after an eight-year-long hiatus. The single phase poll was held on May 5 for 223 of the 224 constituencies with the poll in Periyapatna put off following the death of a BJP candidate. Counting was taken up on Wednesday morning under tight security at 36 centres and...
10:50 AM, May 08, 2013
Bangalore: The Congress has got majority in Karnataka and has ousted the BJP to form the government in the state. Reacting to the Congress's victory, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said, "I congratulates congress for working hard. Certainly corruption by BJP is a message of electorate. Corruption is a big issue for the country." Congress President Sonia Gandhi said, "I am happy with the victory, it's a joint effort and legislators...
09:46 AM, May 08, 2013
Bangalore: The Income Tax department has conducted searches on the premises of Janata Dal Secular candidate and former minister A Krishnappa and seized Rs 2.6 crore in cash, besides jewellery worth Rs 1.88 crore. "Rs 2.65 crore has been seized from the premises of A Krishnappa, an MLA after I-T searches were conducted yesterday (Thursday). He is contesting from the Hiryur Assembly constituency of the state. Jewellery worth Rs 1.88...
01:16 PM, May 03, 2013
New Delhi: A CNN-IBN-The Week pre-poll survey has revealed that Janata Dal (Secular) president and former Chief Minsiter HD Kumaraswamy is the most preferred CM candidate, with 18 per cent people voting in favour of him. While ex-BJP strongman BS Yeddyurappa came a close second, garnering 10 per cent votes, present Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar came last, with 6 per cent votes. Congress leader Siddaramaiah was at number 3, gaining...
06:43 PM, Apr 25, 2013
If you want to know how to complicate an easy thing, you better ask the Congress high command in New Delhi. Karnataka voters were strongly in favour of the Congress just a month ago. Urban local body results also proved that Congress was on the upswing. Sensing certain victory, all kinds of people started lobbying for Congress tickets and the so called high command in Delhi started behaving in a...
07:10 PM, Apr 16, 2013
It is being widely predicted that the BJP may be whitewashed from the only state in south India where it mattered just a year prior to the 2014 general elections. How severe is BS Yeddyurappa's departure? Can BJP cause an unlikely upset? S Prakash, Spokesperson, Karnataka State BJP, joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the issue. Q. Could you please highlight some of the achievements of the government specifically...
06:19 PM, Apr 10, 2013
Bangalore: Former prime minister HD Deve Gowda-led JDS on Friday announced its first list of candidates for the May 5 Karnataka Assembly elections. Former chief minister and sitting MP HD Kumaraswamy and his wife Anitha will both be contesting. She will be fielded from Channapatna - known as the stronghold of former minister CP Yogeshwar who has quit the BJP. On March 31, the party had said that it would...
06:17 PM, Apr 05, 2013
Former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda-led JDS on Sunday said the party would announce its list of candidates for the May 5 Karnataka assembly elections by the second week of next month. ...
03:41 PM, Mar 31, 2013
