Bangalore : Legislative Assembly Speaker K G Boapiah on Tuesday accepted the resignation letters of 12 BJP MLAs, who owe allegiance to B S Yeddyurappa, thereby reducing the strength of the ruling party in the House. The BJP government now has a wafer thin majority and can continue as long as it doesn’t lose two more MLAs or […]

Bangalore:  Nearly a week after three Karnataka MLAs were caught allegedly viewing porn in the state assembly, the trio will give a written explanation today to the Speaker KG Bopaiah on the episode. Their version will then be passed on to the panel appointed by the Speaker probing the allegation. On February 7, CC Patil […]

Hydrabad : Andhra Pradesh State Legislative Assembly Speaker Nadendla Manohar has rejected all MLA resignations inabsentia. Mr. Manohar has been on travelling internationally for the last few days, and has left to London during the wee hours of Saturday. His decision to reject all resignations in a single stroke of pen was announced by the […]

Bangalore: The 73 MLAs strong Congress can neither join with JD-S as in 2002 under Dharam Singh, nor it can assert as a majority party. At this peculiar juncture, two MLAs in two days have resigned from Congress, adding salt to the Party wounds in Karnataka. A man from Jagalur and now Narayana Swamy from […]

Bangalore : Apprehending desertion of some of their legislators to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Congress leaders and MLAs laid siege to Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa’s residence on Tuesday evening and asked the ruling party not to indulge in another “Operation Lotus” to remain in power. The Congress was rattled by rumours that the […]

Bangalore: The internal conflicts among BJP MLAs on the issue of an expanded cabinet as approved by BJP High Command in New – Delhi, are causing serious concern in party circles, and a conflagration may start, not on Babri mosque verdict, but on CM Yeddyurappa’s new cabinet, for which a final list is given to […]