Karntaka Assembly Elections

The Congress Central Election Committee will meet in the national capital on March 17, Friday, to pick the candidates for the upcoming Karnataka Assembly elections, sources said.

The three-day-old government of ruling Bharatiya Janata Party failed to prove its majority in Karnataka on Saturday, dealing a blow to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's plan to expand his party's influence outside its strongholds ahead of the 2019 national polls.

The BJP's KG Bopaiah will be temporary speaker tomorrow when his party's BS Yeddyurappa, the Chief Minister of Karnataka, will take a trust vote on the Supreme Court's orders. This is one more decision by Governor Vajubhai Valla that the Congress is set to challenge in court.

A high-voltage campaign, often turning bitter and personal, for the May 12 Karnataka Assembly elections, billed as the quarterfinal before the 2019 Lok Sabha polls with huge stakes for both BJP and Congress, ended on Thursday evening amidst predictions of a close fight and a hung Assembly.

On Tuesday, as former Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa turned 75, Prime Minister Narendra Modi attended a rally in Karnataka in a symbolic boost to the state BJP chief's election campaign in the southern state. The BJP has also projected Mr Yeddyurappa as its chief ministerial candidate in Congress-ruled Karnataka

The Congress on Wednesday kept up the suspense over its Chief Ministerial candidate in Karnataka, saying it has a "galaxy of leaders" for the top job.

Karnataka has recorded 65 per cent voter turnout as polls closed at 6 PM. There are nearly 3000 candidates in the fray for the 225-strong Assembly; 224 MLAs are elected and one is nominated.

Women in Mangalore have decided to put newly-elected legislators on probation. If the MLAs don't measure up, women activists say, they will attempt to fire them.

Police have seized 500 kg Ammonium Nitrate, used recently to carry out blasts in the Karnataka capital, from Kolar district of the state, officials said.

A total of 40 out of 194 candidates of the BJP and Congress contesting the May five Assembly elections have criminal cases against them, according to NGOs - Karnataka Election Watch and Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR).

The Congress Central Election Committee will meet in the national capital on March 17, Friday, to pick the candidates for the upcoming Karnataka Assembly elections, sources said.

The three-day-old government of ruling Bharatiya Janata Party failed to prove its majority in Karnataka on Saturday, dealing a blow to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's plan to expand his party's influence outside its strongholds ahead of the 2019 national polls.

The BJP's KG Bopaiah will be temporary speaker tomorrow when his party's BS Yeddyurappa, the Chief Minister of Karnataka, will take a trust vote on the Supreme Court's orders. This is one more decision by Governor Vajubhai Valla that the Congress is set to challenge in court.

A high-voltage campaign, often turning bitter and personal, for the May 12 Karnataka Assembly elections, billed as the quarterfinal before the 2019 Lok Sabha polls with huge stakes for both BJP and Congress, ended on Thursday evening amidst predictions of a close fight and a hung Assembly.

On Tuesday, as former Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa turned 75, Prime Minister Narendra Modi attended a rally in Karnataka in a symbolic boost to the state BJP chief's election campaign in the southern state. The BJP has also projected Mr Yeddyurappa as its chief ministerial candidate in Congress-ruled Karnataka

The Congress on Wednesday kept up the suspense over its Chief Ministerial candidate in Karnataka, saying it has a "galaxy of leaders" for the top job.

Karnataka has recorded 65 per cent voter turnout as polls closed at 6 PM. There are nearly 3000 candidates in the fray for the 225-strong Assembly; 224 MLAs are elected and one is nominated.

Women in Mangalore have decided to put newly-elected legislators on probation. If the MLAs don't measure up, women activists say, they will attempt to fire them.

Police have seized 500 kg Ammonium Nitrate, used recently to carry out blasts in the Karnataka capital, from Kolar district of the state, officials said.

A total of 40 out of 194 candidates of the BJP and Congress contesting the May five Assembly elections have criminal cases against them, according to NGOs - Karnataka Election Watch and Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR).