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Even as the Congress legislators huddled in the run-up to the Rajya Sabha elections, the BJP was left embarrassed after its MLA from Yeshwantpur, S T Somashekar, cross-voted while Yellapur MLA Shivram Hebbar abstained from voting.
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.
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.
Once dubbed the “accidental Chief Minister” by Karnataka BJP, Mandya MP and JD(S) state president H D Kumaraswamy will now be among the ministers in the third Narendra Modi-led NDA government. This is the first time Kumaraswamy will be a Central government minister.
Once dubbed the “accidental Chief Minister” by Karnataka BJP, Mandya MP and JD(S) state president H D Kumaraswamy will now be among the ministers in the third Narendra Modi-led NDA government. This is the first time Kumaraswamy will be a Central government minister.
Former Karnataka Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar quit the BJP and joined the Congress in April 2023, just months before the elections, sending shockwaves across the party he had been associated with for decades. Though he lost the elections from his home turf Hubli-Dharwad, he was made an MLC. He returned to the BJP in January and is now its candidate from the Belgaum Lok Sabha seat that was earlier represented by his close relative and former Union Minister Suresh Angadi.
Back in the 1990s, Kota Srinivas Poojary was a regular speaker at campaign events for K Jayaprakash Hegde, canvassing for the then Janata Dal leader in the erstwhile Assembly seat of Brahmavar in Karnataka’s Udupi district. Three decades on, much has changed for the two. Poojary is now the BJP candidate from the Udupi-Chikmagalur Lok Sabha constituency, taking on Hegde for whom he once sought votes.
A prominent Lingayat seer from Dharwad in Karnataka is turning out to be a major headache for Union Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, and Coal and Mines, Pralhad Joshi. On Monday, Fakir Dingaleshwara Swami, the pontiff of Shirahatti and Balehosur Bhavaikyatha Sanstana Mutt, announced his decision to contest as an Independent from Dharwad, Joshi’s pocketborough.
Union minister and BJP leader Shobha Karandlaje, who has now been booked for alleged model code violation over her recent remarks over the Rameshwaram Cafe blast in Bengaluru among other incidents, is no stranger to controversy — helping the 57-year-old carve out a niche for herself within the BJP’s Karnataka ranks, which has no shortage of firebrands.