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The Janata Dal (Secular)’s first family has been dogged by a series of controversies in recent months, with the most recent being a case related to Karnataka MLC Suraj Revanna who is the elder brother of former JD(S) Hassan MP Prajwal Revanna who has been accused of rape. On Sunday, the Hassan police arrested Suraj for allegedly sexually assaulting a male party worker.
The BJP’s choice of four Karnataka MPs for the Narendra Modi government’s Union Council of Ministers reflects the support it received in the state from the dominant castes in the Lok Sabha polls. But this has attracted criticism from the Congress for “ignoring backward communities”.
With its government heading Karnataka, the expectation in the Congress in the run-up to the Lok Sabha elections was that it was in with a chance to win at least 15 of the 28 Lok Sabha seats in the state. But the party fell way short, managing to win only nine seats as the BJP-Janata Dal (Secular) coalition held its ground. In the aftermath of the elections, as the party reviews its performance, the faultlines in the faction-ridden Karnataka unit are again coming to the fore.
A rising Scheduled Tribe (ST) leader and senior legislator in Karnataka, who was inducted as a minister for the first time in May 2023 when the Siddaramaiah-led Congress government was formed, resigned Thursday after being embroiled in a case of alleged misappropriation of Rs 94.73 crore fund from the Karnataka Maharshi Valmiki Scheduled Tribes Development Corporation.
Getting around 45 per cent of the votes counted till noon Tuesday, the Congress in Karnataka looks to be on track to significantly improve their vote share compared to the 2019 Lok Sabha election, in which they registered just 32 per cent.
WHILE OVERALL the exit polls paint a positive picture for the BJP-led NDA, the party will be particularly happy if the predictions hold true for the South.
With 17 Member of Legislative Council (MLC) seats on the line, two elections in Karnataka in June will be vital to the state Congress’s aim of achieving a majority in the upper house of the state legislature.
The women leaders of the Janata Dal (Secular) and its ally BJP want Karnataka MP Prajwal Revanna to be punished under the law for the sexual assault allegations agianst him.