Bangalore:  Jagadish Shettar, Chief Minister elect of Karnataka has said that he would give top priority to  drought relief works in places  of the state worst affected by drought conditions. Speaking to reporters after being elected  as the BJP Legislative Party leader on Tuesday he said  he was fully aware that  tough challenges were ahead […]

Bangalore: Thousands of Vokkaligas from all over the state, irrespective of party affiliations have rallied behind Chief Minister DV Sadananda Gowda and have  expressed their ire against the BJP high command which chose to dislodge such a popular chief minister  who has provided a corruption-free rule to the state. There were protests, rallies and demonstrations […]

Bangalore: Jagadish Shettar will be sworn in as the new chief minister of the state on July 11, Wednesday, after the week long political crisis in the state ended  with the high command agreeing to dislodge Sadananda Gowda. BJP sources said the legislative party meeting of the BJP would be held at a private hotel […]

Bangalore: Jagadish Shettar, the Lingayat community leader backed by BS Yeddyurappa, will be formally elected as the BJP legislative party leader on Monday formaly replacing DV Sadananada Gowda as the state’s new Chief Minister. Senior BJP leaders Arun Jaitley and Rajnath Singh have already arrived here to oversee the formal election of Jagadish Shettar as […]

Bangalore: After weeks of political crisis in Karnataka, the BJP high command has finally decided to replace Chief Minister DV Sadananda Gowda by Jagadish Shettar, a Lingayat leader who is also presently holding the rural development portfolio. With this the high command has buckled to pressure from the Yeddyurappa camp, bringing down a chief minister […]

New Delhi :  Senior BJP Leader LK Advani has finally bowed to pressure from his party men. He is learnt to have given his green signal  to install Jagadish Shettar as the CM  of Karnataka and Eshwarappa as the Deputy CM. The only hurdle for Jagadish Shettar to occupy the  chief ministerial chair of Karnataka […]

Bangalore: If latest reports are to be believed, the proposal before the BJP high command as of now is to make Jagadish Shettar the CM, Eshwarappa as Deputy CM and Sadananda Gowda as the State BJP President. But what if there was a delay in the implementation of this proposal? Well, Yeddyurappa has an answer […]

Bangalore:  All the nine ministers loyal to former CM Yeddyurappa have withdrawn their resignations following an assurance from the high command to take a suitable decision within two to three days on leadership change issue, informed State Rural Development Minister Jagadish Shettar. With this latest development, there has been a new twist to the ongoing […]

Bangalore : Rural Development Minister Jagadish Shettar who all these days had hesitated to utter even a single word that proved that he was part of the dissident team in the BJP, despite  involving in dissident activities headlong,  is learnt to have agreed to tender his resignation in an interesting turn of events. Of the […]

Belthangady: Union Minister for Rural Development Jairam Ramesh, on Friday inaugurated the tri-decennial celebrations of Sri Kshetra Dharmasthala Rural Development Project, at a function held at the Amritavarshini Auditorium at Dharmasthala. In his address, Ramesh said  the Project was a model to the entire nation and should be implemented in various parts of the nation. […]