As voting gets underway in Karnataka, Karnataka Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar urged people that they should not vote for the 'corrupt' Congress party. ...
11:52 AM, May 05, 2013
Hyderabad: An aircraft carrying senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader LK Advani made an unscheduled landing at the old airport at Begumpet in Hyderabad on Monday, after developing a technical snag. Advani was on his way from New Delhi to Bangalore to campaign for BJP for the May 2013 elections in Karnataka, party sources said. The former deputy prime minister had to wait for nearly two hours at the airport...
03:57 AM, Apr 30, 2013
Hubli/Dharwad: The twin cities of Hubli and Dharwad in Karnataka are known for their heritage in Hindustani music and art. But they have also been the epicentre of the Bharatiya Janata Party's growth in north Karnataka. In the 1990s, BJP surged here using local communal disputes, which threw up leaders like the present Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar. A dispute over hoisting the national flag here was used as a vehicle...
10:44 AM, Apr 23, 2013
Thirteen Bharatiya Janata Party MLAs loyal to Karnataka Janata Party chief and former chief minister BS Yeddyurappa on Tuesday submitted their resignation from Assembly membership to Speaker KG Bopaiah. ...
12:51 PM, Jan 29, 2013
Asserting that his government still enjoyed a majority even after 13 BJP MLAs announced their resignation, Karnataka Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar on Sunday said he is ready to face a no-confidence motion, if the opposition moves it. ...
04:50 PM, Jan 27, 2013
"Prove majority or go home" was the message from Congress as the BJP government in Karnataka was mired in a fresh crisis with 13 of its MLAs announcing their decision to quit their Assembly membership. The party slammed the BJP for its "never-ending 'natak' (drama) in Karnataka" saying it "represents the nadir of governance" and claimed that its government was "in shambles" in the southern state for long. ...
05:56 PM, Jan 25, 2013
Lingayat strongman and former Karnataka chief minister BS Yeddyurappa on Sunday dared Jagadish Shettar drop his MP son BY Raghavendra after the saffron party sacked one of his loyalist and Cooperative Minister BJ Puttaswamy from the ministry and suspended Tumkur MP GS Basavaraj. ...
09:22 AM, Dec 09, 2012
Bangalore: The Karnataka government on Saturday decided to send a petition to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the Cauvery River water dispute. It will request Singh to stay the September 19 order of Cauvery River Authority, headed by him, directing the state to release 9,000 cusecs of water daily to Tamil Nadu from September 20 to October 15. "The order asks Karnataka to abide by the CRA's order of releasing...
05:48 PM, Sep 29, 2012
New Delhi/Bangalore: Karnataka Police have arrested five people and are hunting for four more for spreading rumours of an impending attack on people from the Northeast in Bangalore, Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar said on Friday. This is the first arrest since the rumour spread in Bangalore and other places leading to over 16,000 Indians from Northeast leaving the Karnataka capital since August 15. In Bangalore, Deputy Chief Minister R Ashoka,...
11:14 AM, Aug 18, 2012
New Delhi: With Karnataka facing acute scarcity of drinking water and fodder due to deficient monsoon rains, new Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar on Tuesday met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and sought an immediate Central assistance of Rs 2,000 crore to tackle the situation. Heading a high-power delegation, Shettar made a strong pitch for extension of jobs under MGNREGA for another 100 days to arrest migration of people from rural areas....
08:31 PM, Jul 17, 2012
Hubli: Karnataka Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar on Sunday took exception to Governor HR Bhardwaj's remarks that there are "tainted ministers" in his cabinet, saying no one can be held guilty until proved otherwise. "No one can be held guilty unless proved as such," he told reporters at the airport here. Bhardwaj had said on July 13 that some ministers with "tainted record" had been inducted into the ministry, ignoring his...
06:25 PM, Jul 15, 2012
New Delhi: Jagadish Shivappa Shettar was born on December 17, 1955, in Kerur village of Bagalkot district, Karnataka to SS Shettar and Basavanemma. His father, SS Shettar, was a senior activist of the Jana Sangh and was elected five times to the Hubli-Dharwad Municipal Corporation and became the first Jana Sangh mayor of Hubli-Dharwad. Jagdish Shettar's uncle Sadashiv Shettar was the first Jana Sangh leader in the South to get...
02:22 PM, Jul 07, 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: Sadanand Gowda and Jagdish Shettar are the front runners to be the successor to Karnataka chief minister BS Yeddyurappa, but a defiant Yeddyurappa has moved high court on Tuesday against the Lokayukta report that indicts him in the mining scam and told his officials he will be back in six months. Yeddyurappa may be down but he clearly isnt out as yet. Speculation has it that Yeddyurappa's chosen man, ...
01:29 AM, Aug 03, 2011
Bangalore: Sadanand Gowda and Jagdish Shettar are the front runners to be the successor to Karnataka chief minister BS Yeddyurappa, but a defiant Yeddyurappa has moved high court on Tuesday against the Lokayukta report that indicts him in the mining scam and told his officials he will be back in six months. Yeddyurappa may be down but he clearly isnt out as yet. Speculation has it that Yeddyurappa's chosen man,...
01:29 AM, Aug 03, 2011
New Delhi: Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa finally agreed on Saturday to obey his BJP's diktaat to step down even as the succession war continues. Sources said the party leadership wants to make Yedyurappa's rival Ananth kumar or Lingayat leader Jagdish Shettar the next chief minister. But Yedyurappa is strongly opposed to both of them and wants former state president DV Sadananda Gowda for the job and the state presidentship...
07:04 AM, Jul 31, 2011
New Delhi: BJP Parliamentray Board on Thursday decided to send senior leaders Rajnath Singh and Arun Jaitley as observers to Bangalore on Friday to oversee the election of Karnataka BS Yeddyurappa's successor. Who will succeed the Karanataka chief minister and will he go without a fight? Ananth Kumar, Jagdish Shettar and KS Eshwarappa are in the fray. Jagdish Shettar, who is the Rural Development Minister is a front-runner for the...
12:19 PM, Jul 28, 2011
