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11:32 PM, May 10, 2013
Siddaramaiah, who will be taking over as Karnataka CM on Monday, says he was waiting for the opportunity. "Our first priority is to put the administration back on track. People want clean government, we will try to provide it," he said. ...
09:33 PM, May 10, 2013
Bangalore: Siddaramaiah, who would be the new Karnataka Chief Minister, today said putting the 'collapsed" administration back on track would be a major challenge facing him in his new role. "The development of the state has gone 10 years back", Siddaramaiah told reporters after he was elected leader of the Congress Legislature Party. In the May 5 Assembly polls, the Congress had decimated the ruling BJP and staged a spectacular...
07:41 PM, May 10, 2013
Bangalore: Rustic in appearance at times, outspoken Siddaramaiah is not known to mince words and hide his ambitions. And whenever some ruling Bharatiya Janata Party members tried to taunt him over his ambition, Siddaramaiah, Leader of Opposition in the outgoing Assembly, used to get aggressive and declare without hesitation that he would become the Chief Minister. On Thursday, he was proved right after being elected Congress Legislative Party leader and...
07:17 PM, May 10, 2013
Bangalore: Prominent backward caste leader S Siddaramaiah is set to be the next Chief Minister of Karnataka after he was elected as the Congress legislative party leader by party MLAs on Friday. Siddaramaiah, along with the new cabinet ministers of Karnataka, will be sworn in on Monday morning. Speaking to CNN-IBN, Siddaramaiah said he was thankful. "My election as CLP leader was unanimous. I thank all MLAs. The CLP has...
05:09 PM, May 10, 2013
Bangalore: The Congress gets one step closer to deciding the Karnataka Chief minister after party leaders met a legislative meeting on Friday. Sources say that most of the MLAs in the state have backed Siddaramaiah to be the next Chief Minister. Siddaramaiah was always the frontrunner but there were other claimants as well such as Labour Minister Mallikarjun Kharge. Congress leader D Sivkumar said, "Siddaramaiah has moved a resolution that...
03:24 PM, May 10, 2013
Bangalore: Karnataka may get the name of its new Chief Minister on Friday and the Congress legislature party is meeting on to decide who will lead the government. An AICC observer team led by AK Antony is in Bangalore for the meeting. The Congress leaders are consulting MLAs even as several aspirants throw their hat in the ring. While frontrunner Siddarmaiah has sought an appointment with UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi,...
11:57 AM, May 10, 2013
Bangalore: The battle of Karnataka Chief Minister probables isn't over yet. Many leaders have put their hats in the ring now - including frontrunner Siddaramaiah. A final name is expected after the state Congress legislature party meet later on Friday. A day after Karnataka's definitive mandate for the Congress, the bouquets and tributes still kept flowing in at Siddaraiamaih's house on Thursday. But the question of whether he will be...
07:33 AM, May 10, 2013
BJP ex-strongman BS Yeddyurappa, whose party KJP is being seen as one of the primary reasons for BJP's poll defeat in Karnataka, is CNN-IBN's Newsmaker of the Day. ...
11:20 PM, May 09, 2013
The Congress on Thursday dithered on taking action against its two beleaguered ministers Ashwani Kumar and Pawan Kumar Bansal. ...
10:02 PM, May 09, 2013
Bangalore: Congress has set the ball rolling for picking its Chief Minister in Karnataka by convening a meeting of its newly-elected MLAs in Bangalore on Friday with senior leaders Mallikarjuna Kharge and Siddaramaiah being considered front runners in the race for the top post. The observers are slated to elicit the MLAs' views on the leadership issue in Karnataka where the party was swept to power with comfortable majority of...
07:49 PM, May 09, 2013
Bangalore: Former chief minister and Karnataka Janata Paksha president BS Yeddyurappa on Thursday said it was the split votes of his party and BJP that helped Congress bag 121 seats in the May 5 Assembly polls. Addressing a press conference here, he said "it is not positive votes in favour of Congress. As many as 23 seats which Congress has won was because of the split votes". Yeddyurappa said that...
07:18 PM, May 09, 2013
Is the people's verdict in Karnataka an anti-BJP one? Or is it a product of a pro-Congress wave? How is it significant in light of the general elections which are not very far away? Senior journalist Imran Qureshi joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the matter. Q. Isn't it true that, in India voting happens mainly on Caste/religion basis. This would be the case, unless there is a very...
06:31 PM, May 09, 2013
Bangalore: Even though BS Yeddyurappa's Karnataka Janatha Paksha failed to make a big splash in the Assembly elections and could win just six seats, the former chief minister boasted that he was responsible for Bharatiya Janata Party's rout in the state. Declaring that he would not return to the BJP, Yeddyurappa on Thursday said the party has "no existence in Karnataka" without him. "I hope BJP leaders don't come to...
01:21 PM, May 09, 2013
New Delhi: Key UPA ally and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar has struck a note of caution on the Congress's win in Karnataka. Pawar said a single win can't predict the trend for the general elections. Speaking at a rally in Satara, the NCP chief said that the polls in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan will pose a bigger challenge. "Don't jump to any conclusions because of the win...
12:33 PM, May 09, 2013
New Delhi: A day after its landmark victory in Karnataka, the Congress is yet to take a call on who will be the Chief Minister. Several aspirants are already making a pitch for the top post. Frontrunner Siddaramaiah has sought an appointment with UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi and is expected to meet her in Delhi on Thursday evening. Siddaramiah on Wednesday said, "I'm a frontrunner in the race for the...
11:16 AM, May 09, 2013
Bangalore: Back in power after seven years, the Congress is still savouring the victory in Karnataka. But a day after the results, comes the big task - who will be the Chief Minister? For now, Siddaramaiah and Mallikarjun Kharge are being seen as the top contenders. It was a decisive victory for the Congress on Wednesday after a bitter battle with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). What appeared to be...
07:36 AM, May 09, 2013
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...
05:26 AM, May 09, 2013
Bhopal: BJP's humiliating defeat in the Karnataka assembly polls is the beginning of its decline in election-bound states, Madhya Pradesh Congress president Kantilal Bhuria said in Bhopal on Wednesday. Congratulating Congress president Sonia Gandhi and party vice president Rahul Gandhi for the success in Karnataka, where it regained power after a gap of ten years, Bhuria claimed that the BJP's decline because of its misdeeds was set in motion from...
01:23 AM, May 09, 2013
Mumbai: The BJP on Wednesday expressed surprise over Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray expressing his happiness over the Jagadish Shettar-led government's defeat in Karnataka Assembly elections. "The results in Karnataka are very saddening for the BJP. But what is surprising is the happiness expressed by leaders of our alliance partner," Maharashtra state BJP spokesperson Madhav Bhandari said. His comments came after Uddhav expressed happiness, earlier on Wednesday, over the dislodging...
12:55 AM, May 09, 2013
