Karnataka Assembly elections 2023: Karnataka has a long history of betrayal politics which ended with the collapse of government several times. Yediyurappa became CM twice for less than one week. His government collapsed in 2007 and 2018.
Amit Shah on Friday visited the former Karnataka CM and his son in Bengaluru. The Home Minister also warmed up to Yeddyurappa's son B Y Vijayendra
Karnataka election 2023: The party has tried to strike a balance between two dominant castes by appointing Bommai a Lingayat as head of one committee and Karandlaje a Vokkaliga as convener of the other panel.
The incident happened in Kalaburagi's Jewargi after the helicopter carrying the former CM encountered a difficult situation during its attempted landing due to the presence of plastic sheets and waste strewn around the helipad area.
Karnataka: Amit Shah on Thursday promised the people of Karnataka to make the state corruption-free and number one in South India.
Amit Shah Karnataka visit: Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai, Union Minister Pralhad Joshi, senior BJP leader BS Yediyurappa and State president Nalin Kumar Kateel were among others present in the event.
Karnataka news: The case was registered on Friday following a special court direction to the Lokayukta police to book the senior BJP leader and his kin, including his son B Y Vijayendra, who is the BJP state vice president, his grandson and the then BDA commissioner.
BSY's announcement on Friday came as the veteran leader is ending his innings in electoral politics.
According to party sources, the leadership decided against giving ticket to Vijayendra, as it wants to field him as a candidate during the 2023 assembly elections.
BS Yediyurappa's granddaughter Soundarya was found hanging at a private apartment in Bengaluru.
The two leaders also discussed the prevailing political situation in the half-an-hour meeting held Yediyurappa's residence, sources close to the CM said.
This will be applicable until Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai is in office, an official notification from the protocol wing of the Department of Personnel and Administrative Reforms (DPAR) said.
The BJP on Tuesday named Basavaraj Bommai as new Karnataka Chief Minister. Bommai, who is considered to be a confidante of outgoing Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa, was the home minister of the state. Bommai, who joined the BJP in 2008, belongs to the Sadara Lingayat community. His father SR Bommai had also served as Karnataka CM in 1980s.
Bommai, who joined the BJP in 2008, belongs to the Sadara Lingayat community. His father SR Bommai had also served as Karnataka CM in 1980s.
Union Ministers Dharmendra Pradhan and G Kishan Reddy will be the BJP's central observers for the Karnataka legislative party meeting on Tuesday evening to elect a new leader to replace BS Yediyurappa as the state's CM.
According to reports, Rajappa (Ravi), aged about 30, from Bommalapura in Gundlupet taluk in Chamarajanagara district, has allegedly ended his life, shocked by Yediyurappa's exit.
Arunadevi, who is also the women wing President of Akhila Bharatha Veerashaiva-Langyat Mahasabha, told reporters that her father had always been an impulsive decision-0maker and sticks to his decisions
Sources said that names of deputy CM Laxman Savadi, Mining Minister Murugesh Nirani and Home Minister Basavaraj S Bommai are doing the rounds as frontrunners for the CM's chair.
Hours after Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa's resignation on Monday, Shikaripura, the assembly constituency in Shivamogga district which he has represented seven times, was shut as a mark of protest by his supporters.
Soon after Yediyurappa announced his resignation, the BJP leadership went into a huddle in Delhi to find a replacement for the 78-year-old leader.
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