Bangalore: Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister KS Eshwarappa has courted fresh trouble. Close on the heels of the Election Commission reprimanding him for violating the model code of conduct in connection with his alleged hate speech and asked him to be cautious in future, an FIR has now been filed against him for offering "large amounts" during "arti" performed by women during his electioneering in parts of Shimoga.
"An FIR was lodged yesterday against Eshwarappa for offering large amounts during 'arti'. There is video recording and evidence. An inquiry is on", Karnataka Chief Electoral Officer Anil Kumar Jha told reporters on Wednesday evening.
The act by Eshwarappa, who holds the Rural Development and Panchyat Raj and Revenue portfolios in the Jagadish Shettar cabinet, and a former BJP state unit President, allegedly amounts to inducing prospective voters, EC officials said.
Eshwarappa, seeking re-election from Shimoga, had been booked for allegedly inciting communal feelings and promoting hatred and ill-will between different classes in society in a speech on April 9 while campaigning. Meanwhile, he was granted anticipatory bail on Wednesday by a local court in Shimoga on his petition fearing arrest in connection with an FIR against him for the alleged hate speech....
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07:42 PM, Apr 24, 2013
New Delhi: The Election Commission on Tuesday reprimanded Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister KS Eshwarappa for violating the Model Code of Conduct in connection with his alleged hate speech and asked him to be cautious in future. The BJP leader who is also the candidate from Shimoga assembly constituency in Karnataka has been booked for allegedly inciting communal feelings and promoting hatred and ill-will between different classes in society in a...
09:28 PM, Apr 23, 2013
Shimoga: Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister KS Eshwarappa is in trouble for his alleged "hate speech" in the assembly poll-bound state. A criminal case has been filed against him in his home town Shimoga, 280 km north of Bangalore, for a speech that allegedly provokes hatred between communities, a police spokesperson told reporters on Friday. Addressing a public function in Shimoga on Sunday, Eshwarappa had reportedly said that a number of...
05:30 AM, Apr 13, 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
Shimoga: Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister and BJP leader KS Eshwarappa has landed in trouble with a local court admitting a complaint against him on charge of making a "hate speech." Judicial Magistrate First Class Arjun Nallur admitted a private complaint here by the President of minority cell of the district Congress, Sayad W Addu, for Eshwarappa's speech allegedly "instigating" a particular community against others and violating the code of conduct...
04:54 PM, Apr 11, 2013
Chitradurga: Former Karnataka chief minister BS Yeddyurappaon Tuesday said he will not return to BJP and accused its leaders of trying to create confusion among the people ahead of assembly polls. "I will not go back to BJP. Statements by BJP leaders that I will return to the party are a conspiracy against me," Yeddyurappa, who now heads Karnataka Janata Party, told reporters in this town, about 200 km north...
02:09 AM, Mar 20, 2013
BJP leader Arun Jaitley will meet senior Karnataka party leaders on Saturday to select a new head for the state unit following incumbent KS Eshwarappa's resignation on Thursday. ...
05:55 AM, Mar 09, 2013
Karnataka Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar on December 26 said he was in favour of death sentence for rapists and enacting a law in this regard. "I am in favour of death sentence for rapists and enacting a law in this regard," he told reporters on the sidelines of the Diamond Jubilee Celebrations of Karnataka Journalists' Cooperative Society Limited (KJCS). ...
03:34 PM, Dec 30, 2012
Belgaum: Faced with the prospect of instability of its government, the ruling BJP on Wednesday treaded cautiously on initiating action against 13 MLAs who threw their lot with former chief minister BS Yeddyurappa and attended his party's formal launch on December 9 at Haveri. Apparently with the numbers game uppermost in their minds, the state core committee met and discussed action to be taken against errant legislators,MPs and others for...
04:16 PM, Dec 12, 2012
Belgaum: Karnataka's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party will Wednesday decide on action to be taken against 14 of its assembly members for defying a diktat to stay away from the formal launch of former chief minister BS Yeddyurappa's new party. Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar, state Bharatiya Janata Party chief KS Eshwarappa, former chief minister DV Sadananda Gowda and other leaders will meet in Belgaum, about 500 km from Bangalore, to take...
05:02 PM, Dec 11, 2012
New Delhi: Ahead of the launch of BS Yeddyurappa's party, Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar on Saturday cracked the whip sacking Cooperative Minister BJ Puttaswamy, a loyalist of the former Chief Minister, from the cabinet. The state BJP also suspended Yeddyurappa's staunch supporter and Tumkur MP GS Basavaraj from the party and issued show cause notices to both Puttaswamy and Basavaraj. "As a disciplinary measure, Puttaswamy has been dropped from the...
04:28 PM, Dec 08, 2012
Mysore: After reviewing drought relief works here, Deputy Chief Minister K S Eshwarappa on Tuesday said that the onus of paying compensation to farmers is on the Centre, not the state government. He said the state government is not responsible to pay even a single paise to farmers for crop loss and insurance. It is the duty of the Union government, the deputy CM said and added, but the Centre...
12:05 PM, Aug 29, 2012
Bangalore: Jagadish Shettar has been sworn in as the Chief Minister of Karnataka along with two Deputy Chief Ministers KS Eshwarappa, who is the state Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) President, and R Ashok. Shettar and his colleagues were administered the oath of office and secrecy by Karnataka Governor HR Bhardwaj in Bangalore on Thursday. A total of 34 ministers were sworn in and all those named in former Lokayukta Santosh Hegde's...
12:32 PM, Jul 12, 2012
New Delhi: In a last minute hitch, the ruling BJP Legislature party meeting to elect Jagadish Shettar as the Karnataka Chief Minister was delayed on Tuesday morning with outgoing Chief Minister DV Sadananda Gowda's camp setting forth three conditions for his resignation from the post. Ministers and MLAs loyal to Gowda are believed to be pushing for making him the party's state unit President, and his close confidante Gobind Karjol...
11:46 AM, Jul 10, 2012
Mysore: Medical Education Minister SA Ramdas said the BJP high command is likely to resolve the leadership crisis in the state government before April 15. He said the BJP leaders, including BS Yeddyurappa, KS Eshwarappa and DV Sadananda Gowda, will tour the state to apologise to the people and enthuse party men to gear up for the general elections. Interacting with the media in Mysore on Saturday, he admitted that...
01:28 PM, Mar 25, 2012
Belgaum: The issue of who would occupy the chief minister's post in the near future simply refuses to die down in the BJP. On Tuesday, state BJP president KS Eshwarappa said that none from the party or the Sangh Parivar has opposed former Karnataka CM BS Yeddyurappa chief ministerial ambitions. "Minister MP Renukacharya and MLA Suresh Gowda have been warned against making statements on the issue," he added. On senior...
07:24 AM, Jan 26, 2012
Bangalore: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday ruled out allowing scam-hit Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa to pick his successor, even as it continued efforts to make him quit without conditions. "The new chief minister will be decided based on the opinion of all legislators," state Home Minister R Ashoka told reporters after a meeting of senior state party leaders. To help elect a new leader of the legislature...
11:48 AM, Jul 30, 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
Mysore/Raichur: Both the Congress and BJP held protests across Karnataka on Saturday, BJP is demanding that the governor should convene an assembly session immediately and also that the union government should recall the governor. The congress, on the other hand, has demanded for the removal of the BS Yeddyurappa-led government. The BJP protests is being divided into two teams one led by chief minister BS Yeddyurappa and the other by...
06:02 PM, May 21, 2011
