Bangalore: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has finally named former chief minister B S Yeddyurappa's aide Jagadish Shettar as the new CM of Karnataka. The selection of the new Chief Minister has, however, not been easy with outgoing CM Sadanand Gowda setting stiff conditions for quitting.
According to sources, there may be two deputy chief ministers in the Shettar Cabinet. Current BJP state president Eshwarappa and Gowda's aide R Ashok are likely to be named the deputy chief ministers by the party.
The decision was taken at a legislative party meeting attended by former party president Rajnath Singh, Ananth Kumar, Eshwarappa, Jagadish Shettar and Sadanand Gowda.
Following the meeting, Shettar thanked the party leaders for electing him as the Chief Minister. He further said, "The BJP legislative party has elected me as a leader. All the national leaders have approved...I was unanimously elected as the leader by all the MLAs."...
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04:54 PM, Jul 10, 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: 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
New Delhi: Bowing to pressure from BS Yeddyurappa, BJP appears set to replace Karnataka Chief Minister Sadanand Gowda with Lingayat leader Jagadish Shettar and an announcement is expected within a week. "A decision from the high command is likely to be conveyed within a week. We have left everything to the party leadership now. Their decision will be acceptable to us," Shettar, who holds the Rural Development portfolio, said. Sources...
05:34 PM, Jul 05, 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
New Delhi: BJP top brass is confident of tiding over the present crisis in Karnataka till the presidential poll gets over but appears to be getting increasingly reconciled to replacing Sadanand Gowda with Jagdish Shettar as chief minister soon therafter. BJP sources said the Central leadership will prevail over former Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa and his loyalists to give up the July 5 deadline set by them for removing...
11:49 PM, Jul 01, 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
New Delhi: Senior BJP leader and former Karanataka chief minister BS Yeddyurappa has once again raised the flag of revolt against the party leadership over the post of the chief minister in the state. Yeddyurappa upped the ante against current Karnata Chief Minister DV Sadananda Gowda, demanding that Rural Development and Panchayatraj Minister Jagdish Shettar should be given the post. With Yeddyurappa facing CBI inquiry in the illegal mining issue,...
03:20 PM, Jun 28, 2012
New Delhi: Former Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa on Wednesday filed an anticipatory bail plea in the CBI court. Yeddyurappa moved court after the CBI conducted raids at his Bangalore residence in an illegal mining case in line with the Supreme Court's directive. Reports said that Yeddyurappa's legal team has also filed the anticipatory bail for three other family members of the BJP leader. A day after registering an FIR,...
01:56 PM, May 16, 2012
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday conducted raids at former Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa's residence in Bangalore in connection with the mining scam. This comes hours after the central probe agency registered an FIR naming Yeddyurappa, his 2 sons and 2 others in a mining case on the Supreme Court's order. Yeddyurappa is likely to file anticipatory bail plea in special CBI court on Wednesday....
07:57 AM, May 16, 2012
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11:52 PM, May 14, 2012
Bangalore: Former Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa on Monday hit out at the current state government and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leadership, calling CM Sadanand Gowda a failure. Addressing mediapersons in the state capital, the BJP leader said, "The Chief Minister is a failure. He should have resigned long agoGowda has betrayed the MLAs who made him the CM." The Lingayat strongman further slammed BJP state in-charge Ananthkumar...
05:24 PM, May 14, 2012
Bangalore/New Delhi: Karnataka Chief Minister DV Sadanand Gowda is in Delhi for a crisis meet with the BJP leadership after former chief minister BS Yeddyurappa raised the pitch of his revolt. Yeddyurappa even openly praised Congress President Sonia Gandhi and criticised Gowda leadership. Singing a different political tune and embarrassing his top party leadership by praising Sonia just days after the Supreme Court directed CBI to probe Yeddyurappa in corruption...
10:30 PM, May 13, 2012
New Delhi: Former Karnataka chief minister BS Yeddyurappa met Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Nitin Gadkari in New Delhi to seek assurances that he would be reinstated as the head of the state government soon. Sources told CNN-IBN that Yeddyurappa, who is leading a rebellion against present Karnataka Chief Minister DV Sadananda Gowda, demanded that he be made the chief minister again by the first week of April. He submitted...
02:56 PM, Mar 22, 2012
Bangalore: Former Kerala High Court Chief Justice S R Bannurmath has decided to opt out of the post of Lokayukta in Karnataka. According to sources, Karnataka Chief Minister Sadanand Gowda said that the judge sent a letter to him, requesting the government not to pursue the matter with Governor HR Bharadwaj. "I received a letter from Justice Bannurmath stating that because of the various things that have appeared in the...
11:13 AM, Feb 07, 2012
The officer was transferred after he wrote a complaint letter to CM mentioning a threat call from former PM Deve Gowda. ...
08:17 PM, Nov 13, 2011
Bangalore: After engaging themselves in a week-long battle for the CM's post, the factions within the state BJP are now fighting for their pie in the Cabinet. As a result, D V Sadananda Gowda, who had planned to take oath along with a few ministers, had to take oath alone on Thursday, that too in the absence of several legislators who owe allegiance to former minister Jagadish Shettar. According to...
10:19 AM, Aug 05, 2011
New Delhi: Karnataka Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLAs have begun casting secret ballots to choose the next chief minister of the state. The choice is between Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa's man - DV Sadananda Gowda, senior Lingayat leader and Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Minister Jagadish Shettar and Law, Justice and Human Rights, Parliamentary Affairs and Legislature Minister S Sureshkumar, who is a dark horse and is being seen as...
02:12 PM, 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
