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Mock voting, dinners and back-channel dialogue, a complaint to the Election Commission (EC), and legislators sequestered in a hotel. The stage is set for a high-octane Rajya Sabha election battle in Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka, and Himachal Pradesh on Tuesday.
The fundamental difference between how the Congress and BJP want to manage temples in Karnataka has risen to the fore following the passage of an amendment by the Siddaramaiah-led Congress government to the Karnataka Hindu Religious Institutions and Charitable Endowments Act, 1997, in the ongoing Budget Session of the state Assembly.
HE MAY have slim prospects of victory, but the entry of multi-millionaire real estate baron D Kupendra Reddy in the Rajya Sabha poll fray in Karnataka means there are now five candidates for four seats, forcing an election on February 27. The 63-year-old, who declared Rs 1,200 crore assets in his election affidavit, has been fielded by the JD(S)-BJP combine, in what is seen as a bid to test the unity and resolve of the state’s ruling Congress.
A day after Karnataka Chief Minister and Congress leader Siddaramaiah along with his entire Cabinet staged a protest at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar against the BJP-ruled Centre’s alleged injustice to the state in devolution of taxes and release of funds, Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan and his CPM-led LDF Cabinet will hold a similar protest on the issue at the same venue Thursday.
As BJP leaders from across India prepare to gather next month to receive the final blueprint for the party’s Lok Sabha election strategy, the party is confident that the nation’s mood is in its favour.
The return of former chief minister and six-time MLA Jagadish Shettar, 68, to the BJP fold following a nine-month stint with the Congress has come as a shot in the arm to the BJP in the Lingayat belt in northern Karnataka ahead of the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.
NINE MONTHS after expressing deep disappointment over how he had been treated in the BJP, influential Lingayat leader and former Karnataka Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar left the Congress to return to the BJP on Thursday.
The BJP distanced itself from comments made by its Karnataka MP Anantkumar Hegde calling for mosques allegedly built on temples to be demolished, ahead of the Ram temple consecration on January 22 in Ayodhya. However, the incident wasn’t the Uttara Kannada MP’s first brush with controversy.