New Delhi: It is official. BJP leader DV Sadananda Gowda has resigned from the post of Karnataka Chief Minister and BS Yeddyurappa loyalist and Lingayat leader Jagadish Shettar will replace him. BJP President Nitin Gadkari made the announcement after a party meeting on Sunday in the capital. Making the announcement, Gadkari said, "Sadananda Gowda offered to resign for the larger good of the party. The party has accepted his resignation....
11:24 AM, Jul 08, 2012
New Delhi: BJP leader DV Sadananda Gowda on Sunday resigned from the post of Karnataka Chief Minister after a meeting with the party high command in New Delhi, thus ending a long fought battle between him and party strongman BS Yeddyurappa, whom he had replaced nearly an year ago. Sources said Gowda told Gadkari that he would hand over his resignation to the Governor soon. Within months of Gowda taking...
10:59 AM, Jul 08, 2012
New Delhi: Karnataka is all set for its third Chief Minister in a year. After a BJP Core Group meet at 11.30 am on Saturday, it was reportedly decided that DV Sadananda Gowda will be replaced by BS Yeddyurappa loyalist and Lingayat leader Jagadish Shettar as the Chief Minister. The BJP high command is expected to make the official announcement on Sunday, after, perhaps, Gowda's meet with party President Nitin...
07:14 AM, Jul 08, 2012
New Delhi: Outgoing Karnataka Chief Minister DV Sadananda Gowda on Saturday said he would extend all cooperation to his "good friend" and likely successor Jagadish Shettar. Seemingly relaxed, he said he had strived hard to give a corruption-free administration in the state where he was the second Chief Minister in the four-year-old BJP government. "Shettar is very good friend of mine. He is more senior and more experienced," said 59-year-old...
11:23 PM, Jul 07, 2012
New Delhi: Karnataka Chief Minister Sadanand Gowda on Saturday said that he was ready to accept any decision of the party high command. Sources say that the BJP high command has decided to replace Sadananda Gowda with BS Yeddyurappa loyalist Jagadish Shettar as the Karnataka Chief Minister. "I have said whatever decision the central leadership takes, I am prepared to accept. That means if they ask me to quit the...
05:30 PM, Jul 07, 2012
Bangalore: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) high command has decided to replace Sadananda Gowda with BS Yeddyurappa loyalist Jagadish Shettar as the Karnataka Chief Minister. Sources say that the decision was taken at the BJP core group meeting on Saturday at party president Nitin Gadkari's house. Sadananda Gowda is likely to submit his resignation on Saturday evening, according to sources. The BJP Parliamentary board will be called on Sunday to...
02:06 PM, Jul 07, 2012
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party core group meet began on Saturday in the national capital to take stock of the political situation in Karnataka. The issue of leadership change is likely to figure in the discussions at the party president Nitin Gadkari's residence. This comes after former Karnataka chief minister BS Yeddyurappa had raised the banner of revolt demanding the removal of chief minister DV Sadananda Gowda. Yeddyurappa has...
11:10 AM, Jul 07, 2012
Kolar: Chief Minister D V Sadananda Gowda said that he has written an examination, the results of which he is awaiting from the BJP high command. Addressing the media prior to attending the Shaalegaagi Naavu Neevu programme here on Thursday, the CM said that he will abide by any decision taken by the high command, while adding as an afterthought that it will take into consideration all aspects of the...
12:35 PM, Jul 06, 2012
Bangalore: For the first time after the BS Yeddyurappa faction demanded his scalp, Karnataka Chief Minister DV Sadananda Gowda hinted on Wednesday that his exit might be imminent, even as he sought to highlight the achievements of his 11-month rule. The party's central leaders have told warring factions that a decision on leadership issue would be taken in the next four-five days, Gowda told reporters after meeting members of the...
12:59 PM, Jul 04, 2012
Bangalore: Chief Minister D V Sadananda Gowda has urged Union Defence Minister A K Antony not to shift the Aero India show from the city. The biennail event is being held at the Indian Air Force (IAF) Station, Yelahanka. In a letter addressed to Antony, the Chief Minister stated that it has come to the state governments notice that there is a move to shift the event out of Bangalore....
11:36 AM, Jul 04, 2012
Bangalore: A drought of a different kind has affected Karnataka. One of governance. While 27 districts in the state are facing a rainfall deficit and farmers are worried, the state's Agriculture, Water and Rural Development Ministers have not taken corrective steps. In fact, what they are more bothered about is who should be sitting in the Chief Minister's Chair. Estimates show that just about 15 per cent of the crops...
07:13 AM, Jul 03, 2012
Karnataka Chief Minister Sadananda Gowda has said that he has been called to Delhi by the BJP high command to discuss the ongoing crisis within the party in the state. ...
11:09 AM, Jul 02, 2012
Mysore: The tussle for the chief ministership between the warring BJP factions spilled on to the streets, literally, with people burning effigies of former chief minister B S Yeddyurappa and MLA B Harish near Maddur on the Bangalore-Mysore highway. Activists of the Vokkaliga Sangha, Vishwa Vokkaligara Sangha and Kannada organisations and other outfits staged protests expressing outrage to attempts to unseat CM D V Sadananda Gowda. They disrupted traffic on...
10:43 AM, Jul 02, 2012
Bangalore: 10 am: In another dramatic turn of events in Karnataka's political pendulum, former chief minister BS Yeddyurappa's supporters withdrew their resignations after Arun Jaitley intervened and assured the rebel group that the party will soon resolve the crisis in the state. Jaitley spoke to Yeddyurappa and assured him that his demands would be looked into. The Yeddyurappa loyalists will go to Delhi on Monday to meet the BJP central...
10:20 AM, Jul 02, 2012
New Delhi: The political crisis in the Bharatiya Janata Party's Karnataka unit will reach New Delhi on Monday. Karnataka Chief Minister Sadananda Gowda will meet the BJP Parliamentary party. The party will decide on former chief minister BS Yeddyurappa's demand to remove Gowda and appoint his loyalist Jagadish Shettar in his place. Earlier on Sunday, Yeddyurappa stepped up heat on the BJP leadership by setting a July 5 deadline for...
07:29 AM, Jul 02, 2012
In a show of strength, BS Yeddyurappa loyalist Jagadish Shettar on Sunday released a list of 52 supporting MLAs. ...
10:01 PM, Jul 01, 2012
The Yeddyurappa camp has been demanding that Chief Minister Sadananda Gowda be removed and be replaced by Jagadish Shettar. ...
05:31 PM, Jul 01, 2012
Bangalore: Former Karnataka chief minister BS Yeddyurappa on Sunday stepped up heat on the BJP leadership by setting a July five deadline for removing Chief Minister DV Sadananda Gowda and replacing him with his nominee Jagadish Shettar. In a show of strength, Yeddyurappa loyalist Jagadish Shettar on Sunday released a list of 52 supporting MLAs. The Chief Minister will head for Delhi for a meeting with the BJP president Nitin...
05:21 PM, Jul 01, 2012
Bangalore: On a mission to resolve the latest crisis starring the BJP Government, the central party leadership's emissary Dharmendra Pradhan on Sunday asked the nine Ministers loyal to BS Yeddyurappa to withdraw their resignations which has thrown the DV Sadananda Ministry into turmoil. "I ask all nine ministers to withdraw their resignations to pave the way to resolve the leadership issue," Pradhan, in-charge of party affairs in Karnataka, told reporters...
03:10 PM, Jul 01, 2012
New Delhi: In a show of strength, BS Yeddyurappa loyalist Jagadish Shettar on Sunday released a list of 52 supporting MLAs (including himself). The Yeddyurappa camp has been demanding that Chief Minister Sadananda Gowda be removed and be replaced by Shettar. In a revolt, nine ministers, including Shettar himself, resigned from the Gowda government on Friday. Although Gowda refused to accept their resignations, party sources now say that it is...
02:03 PM, Jul 01, 2012
