Bangalore : It is unlikely that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) thought its scam-tainted former Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa will quietly walk away into the sunset after losing his post. The very fact that his successor, Sadananda Gowda, has had to insist that he is not Yeddyurappa’s puppet is evidence enough of the strength […]

Bangalore: Ashok Harnahalli, son of former minister, late Harnahalli Ramaswamy(of Samyukta Karnataka), who was advocate –general to CM Yeddyurappa ministry, resigned on Monday evning(in view of CM’s resignation on Sunday)and his resignation to the Governer has been accepted,but he was asked to carry on until a new incumbent was appointed as A-G in the new […]

Bangalore: Within a month of testing the goods at the Dharmasthala temple, were he failed to make his true statement on oath as promised, CM Yeddyurappa has stopped down as CM of Karnataka on Sunday afternoon, under heavy pressure from the BJP High Command (L.K. Advani, Arun Jaitly, Dharmendra Padhan and others),and in fear of […]

Bangalore: The BJP in Karnataka led by CM yeddyurappa who refuses to resign, in spite of ultimatum served on him by elders in Delhi twice (once as soon as he confronted them, and again, by telling him to resign by 5 Pm on Friday), has started the “Channemane game in Aati”(of Tulu nadu) in Bangalore […]

Bangalore: V. Somanna joined BJP from another party and became minister hand-picked by B.S.Yeddyurappa. The Lokayukta found fault with both. The dark horse V. Somanna who was defeated in an election was later brought back as housing minister. He has pleaded his innocence in an attack against the retiring Lokayukta Justice N. Santosh Hedge on […]

Bangalore: The BJP top brass on Friday failed to reach consensus over who should be the new Chief Minister of Karnataka after BS Yeddyurappa quits. Yeddyurappa supporters, however, kept the pressure building on the party high command to change its decision. Pro-Yeddyurappa MLAs claimed the support of 73 MLAs and 15 MPs and also demanded […]

Bangalore: Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa late Thursday announced he would resign July 31 and work for the party, over 12 hours after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) directed him to quit immediately over illegal mining scam in the state. In a statement, the 68-year-old first BJP chief minister in south India said: “I am […]

Bangalore : Facing more heat in the illegal mining scam, a defiant Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa today asserted he would not quit but left it to BJP chief Nitin Gadkari to take a call on his fate in the light of the Lokayukta report.  Returning to Bangalore from a Mauritius holiday, Yeddyurappa also […]

Bangalore: CM Yeddyurappa now in Mauritius on a holyday with his family members, suggested that he would not hesitate resign if charges made against him were proved, but that he would make no speculations on the leaked portions of Lokayukta’s final report on illegal mining, land deals and denotification of properties. CM announced on his […]

Bengaluru: Lokayukta N. Santosh Hegde on Friday accused BJP spokesman Dhananjay Kumar, state minister Dr.V.S.Acharya, and economist A.G.Kodgi of visiting his house and trying to bind him in their influential net to see that the distinguished Lokayukta retiring on Aug.2 next, did not include CM B.S. Yeddyurappa in his final report as a party guilty […]