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  BJP launches Karnataka poll campaign, Congress finalising candidates

  Politics | March 23, 2013 10:36 IST

  Mysore, March 23: Karnataka's ruling BJP Friday launched its campaign at a rally here for the May 5 assembly polls though it is yet to decide its candidates while the Congress focussed on finalizing its

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  Assembly polls: KJP releases 1st list of candidates

  Politics | March 22, 2013 9:16 IST

  Bangalore, Mar 22: The Karnataka Janata Paksha (KJP) headed by former Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa yesterday released its first list of 69 candidates for the May 5 Assembly polls.Beating the ruling BJP and the

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  Will not return to BJP, asserts Yeddyurappa

  Politics | March 20, 2013 7:12 IST

  Chitradurga (Karnataka), March 20: Former Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa Tuesday said he will not return to BJP and accused its leaders of trying to create confusion among the people ahead of assembly polls."I will

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  BJP got kickbacks for lifting sand export ban: Yeddyurappa

  Politics | March 14, 2013 8:55 IST

  Bangalore, March 14: Former Chief Minister and Karnataka Janata Paksha President B S Yeddyurappa on Wednesday alleged that the BJP has received kickbacks for lifting ban on the export of sand from coastal districts of

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  Yeddyurappa says his next target is to storm assembly polls

  Politics | March 12, 2013 16:29 IST

  Bangalore, Mar 12: After playing spoilsport to the ruling BJP in the recently concluded polls to Urban Local Bodies in Karnataka, KJP President B S Yeddyurappa today set his eyes on storming the Assembly in

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  Karnataka urban local bodies poll Thursday

  Politics | March 06, 2013 13:10 IST

  Bangalore, March 6: Karnataka will Thursday see polling for 208 urban local bodies whose outcome is being seen as a referendum on the BJP's corruption-scarred rule in the state, ahead of assembly elections due in

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  Another Karnataka BJP rebel resigns to join KJP

  Politics | February 02, 2013 12:08 IST

  Bangalore, Feb 2: Another BJP legislator resigned Friday to join former chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa's Karnataka Janata Party, pushing the six-month-old Jagadish Shettar ministry into a precarious position ahead of the budget session Feb 4.D.S.

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  Yeddyurappa keeps BJP govt on tenterhooks

  Politics | January 31, 2013 16:33 IST

  Bangalore, Jan 31: Keeping the BJP government on tenterhooks, Karnataka Janata Party President B S Yeddyurappa today declined to divulge whether some more Ministers and MLAsloyal to him would quit."Those who are interested in the

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  Yeddyurappa expels KJP 'founder' president

  Politics | January 30, 2013 11:38 IST

  Bangalore, Jan 30: Karnataka Janata Party (KJP) president B.S. Yeddyurappa late Tuesday expelled 'founder' president Prasanna Kumar from the primary membership of the regional party, party officials said."The party's president (Yeddyurappa) has expelled Kumar from

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  Karnataka Speaker accepts resignations of 12 rebel BJP MLAs

  Politics | January 30, 2013 7:25 IST

  Bangalore, Jan 30: Amid high drama, Karnataka Legislative Assembly Speaker K G Bopaiah  on Tuesday night accepted the resignation of 12 rebel BJP MLAs identified with B S Yeddyurappa's Karnataka Janata Party but it posed

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  13 rebel BJP MLAs submit resignations to Karnataka Speaker

  Politics | January 29, 2013 15:43 IST

  Bangalore, Jan 29 :  Thirteen rebel BJP MLAs identified with former party strongman B S Yeddyurappa today submitted their resignation letters to Assembly Speaker K G Bopaiah.The MLAs submitted their letters quitting their assembly membership

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  13 BJP legislators quit Karnataka assembly

  Politics | January 29, 2013 13:24 IST

  Bangalore, Jan 29: In a jolt to Karnataka's ruling BJP, 13 legislators loyal to the party's former leader B.S. Yeddyurappa Tuesday submitted letters resigning from the assembly to Speaker K.G. Bopaiah.The 13 would also quit

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  Yeddyurappa backtracks, says won't topple Shettar ministry

  Politics | January 28, 2013 20:02 IST

  Bangalore/New Delhi, Jan 28: Former Karnataka BJP leader B.S. Yeddyurappa Monday changed his tune on toppling the Jagadish Shettar ministry, amid speculation that some BJP lawmakers were now hesitant to quit the assembly and party

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  Karnataka budget day fixed, BJP waits for Yeddyurappa to srike

  Politics | January 22, 2013 19:13 IST

  Bangalore, Jan 22: Karnataka Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar is readying to present his maiden budget Feb 8 amid claims from former BJP leader B.S. Yeddyurappa's supporters that four ministers and 15 legislators will quit Jan

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  Karnataka politicians' prediction, polarisation and predilection

  Politics | January 16, 2013 10:07 IST

  Bangalore, Jan 15: Karnataka politicians of all hues have been busy for months predicting that the BJP government headed by Jagadish Shettar will fall soon after Makar Sankranti Monday and the state will witness political

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  Top 7 Indian politicians facing serious corruption charges

  Politics | July 23, 2014 7:52 IST

  New Delhi: The illicit use of power by politicians has turned the entire Indian polity into a venal one, where there is a price for everything. Corruption crept into the Indian body politic in the

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  Yeddyurappa defers to Jan 15 bid to topple BJP government

  Politics | January 05, 2013 11:26 IST

  Bangalore, Jan 4: Contrary to his earlier assertions of a decisive move Friday to pull down the BJP government in Karnataka, the party's former leader B.S. Yeddyurappa deferred the plan to Jan 15."We will take

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  Shettar govt has lost right to present 2013 budget: Yeddyurappa

  Politics | December 31, 2012 11:31 IST

  Gulbarga, Dec 31: Disgruntled with Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar's move to drop KJP supporters from various boards, party president B S Yeddyurappa Sunday said the BJP government has lost the right to present the next

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  BSY says BJP govt has lost majority, threatens to meet Guv

  Politics | December 25, 2012 19:58 IST

  Bangalore, Dec 25: As BJP continued to crack down on his supporters in the ruling dispensation, Karnataka Janata Paksha (KJP) President B S Yeddyurappa today threatened retaliation, hinting that he is no longer keen on

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  Yeddyurappa will flop like Gujarat's Keshubhai Patel, hopes BJP

  Politics | December 22, 2012 15:12 IST

  Bangalore, Dec 22: Karnataka's ruling BJP, battered by corruption scandals and rebellion, is gung-ho about the Gujarat assembly poll outcome, more so because the once BJP strongman Keshubhai Patel bit the dust.The party is hoping