Bangalore : Nearly 1.35 lakh police personnel, including those from the Central Police Force would be deployed to ensure free and fair Assembly polls in Karnataka on May five, a top police official said on Friday. “Of the total force to be on duty, 75,000 will be from state police, 4,500 Home Guards from Andhra […]
Bangalore : The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday released a 19-point manifesto ahead of the May 5 Assembly elections, promising rice at Re. 1 for Below Poverty Line (BPL) families if voted to power. The party had promised rice at Rs. 2 before the previous elections in 2008 and made efforts to rush through […]
Mangalore : Congress heavy weight Mr.Ramanath Rai (Bantwal) filed his nomination on the penultimate day of filing nominations along with Mr.Moideen Bava (Mangalore north) and Shakuntala Shetty (Puttur) for the May 5th Karnataka assembly polls. Also seen filing nomination are from BJP Mr.Sanjiv Matandoor (Puttur) and Gulam Mohammed from JDS (Mangalore north). After filing nomination […]
Bangalore : Sons of senior Congress leaders Mallikarjuna Kharge and N Dharam Singh were given tickets to contest the May five Assembly elections in Karnataka in the second list of 40 candidates announced by the party on Sunday. However, Micro, Medium and Small Enterprise (MSME) minister K.H. Muniyappa failed to get ticket for his daughter […]
Bangalore : In its desperation to find suitable candidates for the Karnataka Assembly polls, the BJP roped in Dattatreya Chandrashekhar Patil Revoor of the JD(S) Tuesday morning and named him the party’s nominee for the Gulbarga Dakshin seat by evening. The Central Election Committee of the BJP, which met here on Tuesday, finalised the names […]
New Delhi : Jagadish Shettar will be the BJP’s chief ministerial candidate in the Karnataka Assembly polls, Rajnath Singh said today, even as he downplayed the issue of corruption that has plagued the party-led government in the southern state. Singh, who was addressing a Bangalore rally through video conferencing after his aircraft developed some snag […]
