The Karnataka Assembly polls are an acid test not just for the incumbent BJP but also for the Congress which has bitter memories of losing the state elections when everything was going in their favour. Dr Mahendra S Kanthi, Professor, International Economics, SVSU Michigan, joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the issue. Q. Who will win this Election? BJP or Congress? Who will be the CM if Congress wins?...
06:18 PM, Apr 16, 2013
Karnataka goes for Assembly elections on May 5. Professor of Economics & Social Sciences at IIM Bangalore MV Rajeev Gowda joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the issue. Q. I feel Congress will win 132 seats and JDS will come second .Do you agrees Asked by: shafivullah A. Your Congress prediction seems accurate. Second place will likely be shared by the BJP and JDS, with the BJP ahead by...
07:32 PM, Apr 15, 2013
Narendar Pani, Professor, School of Social Sciences, National Institute of Advanced Studies, joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the Karnataka Assembly elections 2013. Q. Simple question, who will win? Asked by: feroz A. The general expectation is that this election is for the Congress to lose. The number of politicians from all parties seeking a Congress ticket supports this view. The trouble for the Congress is that it has...
07:17 PM, Apr 15, 2013
1989 Polls: - The ruling party has always lost in Karnataka since 1985. - Janatha Party government between 1985-89 had two Chief Ministers (Ramakrishna Hegde and SR Bommai). State was put under the President's rule by the PM Rajiv Gandhi in May 1989. Janatha Party lost miserably in 1989 polls. It won just 24 seats. In 1985, it had 135 seats. Congress registered a landslide victory by winning 178 seats....
04:30 PM, Apr 15, 2013
Bangalore: A total of 40 out of 194 candidates of the BJP and Congress contesting the May five Assembly elections have criminal cases against them, according to NGOs - Karnataka Election Watch and Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR). They released an analysis of the first list of BJP and Congress candidates, focusing on the criminal and financial assets of the re-contesting candidates, among others. As many as 140 candidates have...
08:16 PM, Apr 12, 2013
Bangalore: As many as 84 candidates filed their nominations on Friday for the May 5 Assembly elections on the second day of the poll process, Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Anil Kumar Jha said. Jha said 27 candidates had submitted their nominations on April 10, the first day when filing of papers began. To a query on the prominent names in the list he said, "sitting MLAs and ministers are yet...
07:20 PM, Apr 12, 2013
New Delhi: The Election Commission on Friday swung into action and issued notices to Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister KS Eshwarappa and Maharashtra Home Minister RR Patil for alleged hate speeches in Karnataka. On Thursday, Judicial Magistrate First Class Arjun Nallur admitted a private complaint by the President of minority cell of the district Congress, Sayad W Addu, over Eshwarappa's speech allegedly "instigating" a particular community against others and violating the...
06:42 PM, Apr 12, 2013
Bangalore: Ruling BJP in Karnataka on Wednesday released the second list of 35 candidates for the May 5 assembly elections, refraining from taking a call on fielding tainted MLAs. The list was finalised by the BJP Central Election Committee which met in New Delhi under the Presidentship of Rajnath Singh, party General Secretary HN Ananth Kumar said in a statement here. The CEC meeting was attended by BJP leaders LK...
06:40 PM, Apr 10, 2013
Bangalore: Many candidates in Karnataka put off their move to file nominations for the May 5 Assembly elections on Wednesday owing to "Amavasya", considered inauspicious, as the poll process was set in motion. Less than a handful of nominations were filed on the first day of the election process, in a lukewarm start to the exercise, largely blamed on "New Moon". But it appears that Karnataka Textiles Minister Varthur Prakash...
06:33 PM, Apr 10, 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: In the battle for Karnataka, the biggest poll issue for capital Bangalore is not infrastructure or jobs, but garbage disposal. Bangaloreans say they will vote for the party that helps them lose the stink. Heaps of garbage at almost every street corner are reducing Bangalore to a stink that hasn't gone till now. For the past six months, garbage disposal has been the single-most important issue in the country's...
09:34 AM, Apr 09, 2013
The Karnataka Assembly polls are less than a month away. The ramifications of the polls are likely to impact even the 2014 general election results, pundits predict. Discuss with a senior journalist whether the BJP can hold on to the only state in south India where it has some electoral clout or if they will be pushed out by the Congress? How big a factor will be BS Yeddyurappa? Senior...
05:18 PM, Apr 08, 2013
The BJP government in Karnataka has had a chequered run in the last five years which saw the party change two chief ministers. Former Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa has formed his own party and will further dent the BJP's prospects. BJP declared a list of 140 candidates for Karnataka on Friday. 80 sitting MLAs of the 82 in these constituencies have been given tickets this time. The party is fielding...
11:58 PM, Apr 05, 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
New Delhi: The Election Commission on Thursday banned the publication or broadcast of any exit poll during the period of Assembly elections in Karnataka. The EC also prohibited the display of any election matter including results of any opinion poll or any other poll survey, in any electronic media, during the period of 48 hours before end of polling on May 5. "Election matter has been defined as any matter...
02:15 AM, Apr 05, 2013
Bangalore: The average asset of a minister in Karnataka is Rs 6.96 crore, a jump of 665 per cent over the previous 2004 ministry, an NGO claimed. Karnataka Election Watch and Association of Democratic Reforms had analysed the affidavits, filed with the Election Commission, of 24 out of 27 Cabinet Ministers including the Chief Minister. The data regarding the three remaining Ministers - S Suresh Kumar, Revu Naik Belamagi and...
10:53 PM, Apr 04, 2013
Congress on Sunday said the newly constituted Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) team will have to pass the Karnataka elections exam first. The BJP announced its new Parliamentary Board and as speculated, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi was reinducted into the panel after a gap of six years. Among the other new members, who were appointed in the board, were Pilibhit MP Varun Gandhi and Modi's close aide and former Gujarat...
01:27 PM, Mar 31, 2013
BJP president Rajnath Singh and LK Advani are among the key party leaders who will be campaigning for the May 5 Karnataka Assembly elections. "Our national leaders LK Advani, Rajnath Singh, Arun Jaitley and Sushma Swaraj will be descending in the city for poll campaign by attending Sankalpa Convention on April 8," state party spokesman CT Ravi said. ...
08:19 PM, Mar 30, 2013
Congress' central committee headed by Sonia Gandhi will meet on Saturday to finalise the list of candidates for the Karnataka Assembly elections, which is slated on May 5. ...
06:39 AM, Mar 30, 2013
A CD purportedly showing a ruling BJP legislator in a sexual act has landed him in trouble, prompting him to announce he would not contest the May 5 Assembly polls. ...
04:26 AM, Mar 29, 2013
