Bjp Govt In Karnataka

At 8.31 pm on Wednesday, a tweet put out by the official handle of the Karnataka BJP said the party's chief ministerial candidate BS Yeddyurappa would be sworn in on Thursday. The post also had a time --- 9.30 am. Except, there had been no official communication from the Raj Bhawan by then.

BJP's BS Yeddyurappa will take oath as Karnataka Chief Minister at 9 am today after his party was invited to form government, and given 15 days to prove majority by the governor on Wednesday evening. The Congress, to ensure that does not happen, approached the Supreme Court late at night and asked for the swearing-in to be stopped. Three judges of ...

BJP president Amit Shah today spoke for the first time on his much-talked about slip in Karnataka, which embarrassed his party's chief ministerial candidate BS Yeddyurappa, and turned it around to take aim at the Congress.

Karnataka has delivered an unambiguous verdict. The Congress will form the next government and will not need help. The party won 121 seats, which will give it a majority in the 224-seat Assembly.

Days after 13 of his loyalist legislators in BJP announced their resignations, pushing the government into a crisis, Karnataka Janata Party (KJP) chief BS Yeddyurappa today said he has no intention to topple the Shettar govt.

Eager to stall presentation of an election budget by the Jagadish Shettar Ministry, Karnataka Janatha Party (KJP) of BS Yeddyurappa is holding its executive committee meeting in Bangalore tomorrow to finalise 'an action plan' to bring down the first BJP government in the south.

The Prime Minister and Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde have phoned the Chief Minister of Karnataka, asking him to ensure the safety of thousands of students from the north east. Jagadish Shettar, who heads the BJP government in Karnataka, has said students are not at risk.

Pulling up the BJP government for "inordinate delay" in appointing the Lokayukta, Karnataka High Court today warned it would write to the Governor that there is a Constitutional crisis if it failed to respond positively.

The BJP government in Karnataka has decided to send back the Santosh Hegde report on illegal mining to the state Lokayukta, seeking clarifications.

The police, the state government, the BJP and the Sangh Parivar were absolved of all blame by a recent report on the attacks on churches in 2008 in Karnataka.But another report, by a former judge of the Karnataka High Court, concludes the opposite.Justice MF Saldanha conducted an independent inquiry and says the state police was involved in the att...

Finally, some good news for the beleaguered BJP government in Karnataka. A commission set up to investigate a series of attacks on churches in 2008 has said neither the government nor the police can be faulted. The report submitted by the one-man commission states: "There is no basis to the apprehension of Christian petitioners that the politicians...

BJP President Nitin Gadkari, along with senior party leaders Arun Jaitley and Dharmendra Pradhan, will visit Karnataka today to meet BJP MLAs in the state where the party's government has been hit by charges of nepotism against Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa and dissidence against his leadership.Gadkari's visit to Karnataka was pre-scheduled and he...

A day ahead of the Karnataka floor test, there is a new and serious point of conflict in the ongoing Karnataka political drama. The Governor and the Speaker traded letters and charges after Governor HR Bharadwaj stepped in to indicate the Speaker, KG Bopaiah, should not disqualify the rebel MLAs in order to maintain the character and configuration ...

At 8.31 pm on Wednesday, a tweet put out by the official handle of the Karnataka BJP said the party's chief ministerial candidate BS Yeddyurappa would be sworn in on Thursday. The post also had a time --- 9.30 am. Except, there had been no official communication from the Raj Bhawan by then.

BJP's BS Yeddyurappa will take oath as Karnataka Chief Minister at 9 am today after his party was invited to form government, and given 15 days to prove majority by the governor on Wednesday evening. The Congress, to ensure that does not happen, approached the Supreme Court late at night and asked for the swearing-in to be stopped. Three judges of ...

BJP president Amit Shah today spoke for the first time on his much-talked about slip in Karnataka, which embarrassed his party's chief ministerial candidate BS Yeddyurappa, and turned it around to take aim at the Congress.

Karnataka has delivered an unambiguous verdict. The Congress will form the next government and will not need help. The party won 121 seats, which will give it a majority in the 224-seat Assembly.

Days after 13 of his loyalist legislators in BJP announced their resignations, pushing the government into a crisis, Karnataka Janata Party (KJP) chief BS Yeddyurappa today said he has no intention to topple the Shettar govt.

Eager to stall presentation of an election budget by the Jagadish Shettar Ministry, Karnataka Janatha Party (KJP) of BS Yeddyurappa is holding its executive committee meeting in Bangalore tomorrow to finalise 'an action plan' to bring down the first BJP government in the south.

The Prime Minister and Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde have phoned the Chief Minister of Karnataka, asking him to ensure the safety of thousands of students from the north east. Jagadish Shettar, who heads the BJP government in Karnataka, has said students are not at risk.

Pulling up the BJP government for "inordinate delay" in appointing the Lokayukta, Karnataka High Court today warned it would write to the Governor that there is a Constitutional crisis if it failed to respond positively.

The BJP government in Karnataka has decided to send back the Santosh Hegde report on illegal mining to the state Lokayukta, seeking clarifications.

The police, the state government, the BJP and the Sangh Parivar were absolved of all blame by a recent report on the attacks on churches in 2008 in Karnataka.But another report, by a former judge of the Karnataka High Court, concludes the opposite.Justice MF Saldanha conducted an independent inquiry and says the state police was involved in the att...

Finally, some good news for the beleaguered BJP government in Karnataka. A commission set up to investigate a series of attacks on churches in 2008 has said neither the government nor the police can be faulted. The report submitted by the one-man commission states: "There is no basis to the apprehension of Christian petitioners that the politicians...

BJP President Nitin Gadkari, along with senior party leaders Arun Jaitley and Dharmendra Pradhan, will visit Karnataka today to meet BJP MLAs in the state where the party's government has been hit by charges of nepotism against Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa and dissidence against his leadership.Gadkari's visit to Karnataka was pre-scheduled and he...

A day ahead of the Karnataka floor test, there is a new and serious point of conflict in the ongoing Karnataka political drama. The Governor and the Speaker traded letters and charges after Governor HR Bharadwaj stepped in to indicate the Speaker, KG Bopaiah, should not disqualify the rebel MLAs in order to maintain the character and configuration ...