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BJP's B Sreeramulu, Janardhan Reddy's close aide and sitting lawmaker, will be fighting from Badami against Congress' Siddaramaiah, the current chief minister of the state.

BJP president Amit Shah did not rule out claims by B Sriramulu, a key aide of scam-tainted mining baron Janardhana Reddy, that he could be appointed deputy chief minister if the party comes to power. This is something, Mr Shah told reporters in Bengaluru, that would be discussed by the party with an "open mind" after election results are declared. ...

Amid criticism over mining baron G Janardhana Reddy taking part in electioneering in poll-bound Karnataka, state BJP chief BS Yeddyurappa today said the former minister was campaigning for his friend B Sriramulu and not for the party.

As Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah touched down earlier this week in north Karnataka to file his nomination for the Badami seat, the BJP had his challenger standing by, currently its MP in Bellary.

Chief Minister Siddaramaiah will face BJP parliamentarian B Sriramulu, a key aide of the Reddy brothers, in Karnataka's Badami on the May 12 election.

An eight-year-old girl died and her mother and elder sister were injured after a truck hit the two-wheeler they were riding on the Chilkanagar main road here, police said.

Bellary is expected to test the popularity of the Siddaramaiah government in Karnataka. The iron ore-rich constituency had come under the BJP's control in 2004, thanks largely to the clout of mining baron Janardhan Reddy and his two brothers. Their close associate B Sriramulu is now in the fray from the reserved seat, but the Reddy brothers are no ...

The Andhra Pradesh Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), probing the cash-for-bail scam involving jailed former Karnataka minister Gali Janardhan Reddy, on Tuesday named his close associate and yet another MLA of that state B Sreeramulu, of playing a role towards securing Reddy's bail.

A local court has extended till November 14 the judicial custody of former Karnataka Minister and mining baron Gali Janardhan Reddy and Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC) Managing Director B Srinivas Reddy in the illegal mining case.

Karnataka ministers G Janardhan Reddy and G Karuanakar Reddy, under pressure over allegations of illegal mining, on Sunday paid an unscheduled visit here and met senior BJP leader Sushma Swaraj and Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa, after which they dismissed all the charges against them.

BJP's B Sreeramulu, Janardhan Reddy's close aide and sitting lawmaker, will be fighting from Badami against Congress' Siddaramaiah, the current chief minister of the state.

BJP president Amit Shah did not rule out claims by B Sriramulu, a key aide of scam-tainted mining baron Janardhana Reddy, that he could be appointed deputy chief minister if the party comes to power. This is something, Mr Shah told reporters in Bengaluru, that would be discussed by the party with an "open mind" after election results are declared. ...

Amid criticism over mining baron G Janardhana Reddy taking part in electioneering in poll-bound Karnataka, state BJP chief BS Yeddyurappa today said the former minister was campaigning for his friend B Sriramulu and not for the party.

As Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah touched down earlier this week in north Karnataka to file his nomination for the Badami seat, the BJP had his challenger standing by, currently its MP in Bellary.

Chief Minister Siddaramaiah will face BJP parliamentarian B Sriramulu, a key aide of the Reddy brothers, in Karnataka's Badami on the May 12 election.

An eight-year-old girl died and her mother and elder sister were injured after a truck hit the two-wheeler they were riding on the Chilkanagar main road here, police said.

Bellary is expected to test the popularity of the Siddaramaiah government in Karnataka. The iron ore-rich constituency had come under the BJP's control in 2004, thanks largely to the clout of mining baron Janardhan Reddy and his two brothers. Their close associate B Sriramulu is now in the fray from the reserved seat, but the Reddy brothers are no ...

The Andhra Pradesh Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), probing the cash-for-bail scam involving jailed former Karnataka minister Gali Janardhan Reddy, on Tuesday named his close associate and yet another MLA of that state B Sreeramulu, of playing a role towards securing Reddy's bail.

A local court has extended till November 14 the judicial custody of former Karnataka Minister and mining baron Gali Janardhan Reddy and Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC) Managing Director B Srinivas Reddy in the illegal mining case.

Karnataka ministers G Janardhan Reddy and G Karuanakar Reddy, under pressure over allegations of illegal mining, on Sunday paid an unscheduled visit here and met senior BJP leader Sushma Swaraj and Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa, after which they dismissed all the charges against them.