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  • Tejashwi got angry after questioning Rabri Devi, said fear of Bihar after Karnataka elections

    Tejashwi got angry after questioning Rabri Devi, said fear of Bihar after Karnataka elections

    Patna (IANS) | On Friday, Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav lashed out at the BJP after questioning former Bihar Chief Minister Rabri Devi at the Enforcement Directorate office in New Delhi. He said that after the Karnataka elections, he is most afraid of Bihar.

    RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav, after participating in the sports conclave here on behalf of Bihar State Sports Authority, while discussing with reporters, said that we are already anticipating it. They will target us because they fear Bihar the most after Karnataka.

    He said that right now my name is not there in the charge sheet in this case, but if my name is added in the supplementary charge sheet, then there will be no surprise. He said that there is no need to panic over it. could be possible. But, the public is watching everything.

    Describing Congress’s victory in Karnataka as a lesson for the BJP, Tejashwi Yadav said that the worst would be for them in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

    It is notable that former Chief Minister Rabri Devi was questioned on Thursday at the ED headquarters in New Delhi. This process of questioning lasted for about 5 hours 30 minutes.

    During the tenure of the then Railway Minister and her husband Lalu Prasad, she was asked about two dozen questions regarding the land case in lieu of the alleged job.

    During the last three months, the investigating agency has also questioned Lalu Prasad’s son Tejashwi Yadav, daughter Misa Bharti, Chanda Yadav and Ragini Yadav in this case. In this case, raids have also been conducted at the residences of Lalu Prasad’s family members.

    –IANS

  • Karnataka Elections: Congress leading on 63 seats

    Karnataka Elections: Congress leading on 63 seats

    New Delhi: The Congress is on course for its best-ever performance in Karnataka with the party leading in 63 Assembly seats, while the main challenger BJP is trailing with 42 seats, according to the Election Commission of India (ECI).

    While the JDS is leading on nine seats, the Kalyana Rajya Pragathi Paksha has one, revealed the ECI trends as of 9.34 a.m. on Saturday.

    Talking to IANS on these early trends, BJP national spokesperson Syed Zafar Islam, who was present at the party headquarters in New Delhi, admitted that JDS votes seem to have been transferred to the Congress, though he also claimed that the saffron party is going to get absolute majority in the state.

    Islam further asked to wait for a few more hours, by 12 noon the complete picture would emerge and BJP would form the government with absolute majority in the state.

  • Karnataka polls: Congress, BJP begin infighting to form government

    Karnataka polls: Congress, BJP begin infighting to form government

    Hubli (IANS) | After most exit polls predicted a fractured mandate in Karnataka, both the major parties Congress and BJP have started infighting to form the government. BJP leaders told IANS that if they do not get a majority, they will try to break the elected Congress and JD(S) MLAs.

    Although Congress leader B.K. Hariprasad also told IANS, Congress is not the old Congress of Karnataka. We have come a long way and horse trading of our MLAs is not possible.

    Senior Congress leader D.K. Shivakumar and Siddaramaiah asked AICC general secretary (organisation) K.C. In touch with Venugopal.

    Karnataka Congress leaders are upbeat about two bigwigs joining the party — former Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar and former Deputy Chief Minister Laxman Suvadi — leaving the BJP.

    Meanwhile, former chief minister and JD(S) leader Kumaraswamy said he would keep his MLAs together and would stake claim for the chief minister’s post.

    The JD(S) leadership believes that had it not been for some internal issues, the party could have got more seats than predicted by the exit polls.

    –IANS

  • Karnataka Election: 23 villagers arrested for attacking poll-duty vehicle, damaging EVMs in Vijayanagara district

    Karnataka Election: 23 villagers arrested for attacking poll-duty vehicle, damaging EVMs in Vijayanagara district

    Karnataka : 23 individuals were arrested after villagers from Masabinala in Vijayapura district intercepted a poll duty vehicle transporting electronic voting machines (EVMs), physically assaulted an officer, and caused harm to the control and ballot units on Wednesday, the Election Commission said.

    As per the statement by the Election Commission, the villagers halted the transportation of reserved Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) for the Assembly elections, which were being carried in a vehicle by a section officer. During this incident, two control and ballot units, as well as three Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trails (VVPATs), were reportedly damaged.

    “Sector officer was manhandled. 23 people arrested”, the poll body said, adding that top district officials rushed to the village, which comes under Basavana Bagewadi Assembly segment.

    As per information from the Police, the villagers’ actions were reportedly influenced by rumors that officials were tampering with the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) and Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trails (VVPATs).In a separate incident in the Padmanabhanagar constituency, a group of young individuals armed with sticks allegedly assaulted their political opponents at a polling booth located in Papaiah Garden.

  • Karnataka polls: 1.56 lakh police personnel to be deputed on election duty

    Karnataka polls: 1.56 lakh police personnel to be deputed on election duty

    Bengaluru: The Karnataka State Election Commission has made eloborate arrangements for the May 10 Assembly elections in the state. To ensure no untoward incidents take place, the commission is deputing 1.56 lakh police personnel across the state.

    As many as 84,119 police officers from the state have been deputed and the rest are roped in from the neighbouring states.

    According to a statement, 304 deputy superintendents of police (Dy SP), 991 inspectors, 20,601 sub-inspectors, and 650 companies of Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) would be deputed for the polling duty in the state.

    The 650 CAPF companies would include 101 from the Central Reserve Police Force, Border Security Force (108), Central Industrial Security Force (75), Indo-Tibetan Border Police (70), Sashastra Seema Bal (75), Railway Protection Force (35), and 186 of the Special Armed Police.

    In Bengaluru 16,000 police personnel have been deputed for election duties. They will be deployed to 7,916 polling booths and 1,907 hyper sensitive polling booths.

  • JP Nadda on Karnataka election tour

    JP Nadda on Karnataka election tour

    I am very happy to be among the people of Kudligi. The continued support extended by the people of Karnataka to the BJP shows their appreciation for the development-oriented policies of our government. I appeal to the people to keep blessing us by re-electing the double engine government with full majority.

  • DMK vows to work for Cong’s victory in Karnataka polls

    DMK vows to work for Cong’s victory in Karnataka polls

    CHENNAI: The ruling DMK has vowed to work for the victory of the Congress among the Secular Progressive Alliance (SPA) parties in the May 10 Karnataka Assembly polls.

    In an announcement, DMK general secretary Duraimurugan on Monday instructed the functionaries of the various units of the DMK in Karnataka to constitute election committees and work along with the alliance parties to ensure the resounding victory of the Secular Progressive Alliance in the election.

    The DMK, however, did not specify if its leaders from Tamil Nadu would even hit the campaign trail in Karnataka which is seeing the high and mighty of both the BJP and Congress descend on the southern state to wrest control of one of the economically top-performing states in the south.

    Unlike the opposition AIADMK, which initially fielded its candidates in a couple of seats and withdrew the same to avoid playing spoilsport for ally BJP there, the DMK was not content with directly participating in the polls. It has been reliably learnt that the ruling DMK has no plans to depute its bigwigs to the neighbouring state where ally Congress is in the driving seat at the moment.

  • Karnataka Elections – BJP releases third list of 10 candidates

    Karnataka Elections – BJP releases third list of 10 candidates

    New Delhi (IANS) | BJP has released its third list of 10 candidates for the Karnataka Legislative Assembly elections. In this list, the BJP has also announced the name of its veteran leader and former Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar, who joined the Congress on Monday, from the Hubli Dharwad Central assembly seat.

    The party has declared Mahesh Tenginkai as its candidate from the Hubli Dharwad Central Assembly constituency. Along with this, BJP has declared Manjula Arvind Limbavali as its candidate from Mahadevpura.

    Earlier, BJP has announced the names of 189 candidates in the first list and 23 candidates in the second list.

    Let us tell you that the assembly elections in Karnataka are to be held on May 10 and the counting of votes will take place on May 13.

    –IANS

  • Karnataka Polls: Parliamentary Board Likely To Meet On April 8 To Decide BJP Candidates Says Bommai

    Karnataka Polls: Parliamentary Board Likely To Meet On April 8 To Decide BJP Candidates Says Bommai

    The BJP Parliamentary Board is likely to meet on April 8 to finalise the list of BJP candidates for the May ten Karnataka Assembly elections, Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai said on Monday.

    He said the ruling party already has the survey report of each constituency but it has sought the opinion of each District Core Committee on shortlisted candidates.

    “We will discuss the names recommended by the district committees during the State Core Committee meeting on Tuesday and then send it to the Central Parliamentary Board. The Parliamentary Board is likely to meet on April 8 where the names will be finalised after discussion,” Bommai said.

    The Parliamentary Board is the BJP’s highest decision-making body. Karnataka BJP strongman and former chief minister B S Yediyurappa is a member of the Board.

    Bommai indicated that there is strong competition to get a BJP ticket to contest the polls. “At some places, there are three to four candidates willing to contest on the BJP ticket. This is an indication that we are a winning party,” he said.

    Assembly polls are scheduled to be held in a single phase on May 10 and counting will take place on May 13.

    Opposition parties Congress and JD(S) have already released their first list of candidates for the election. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), a new entrant to the state, has also put out its candidates’ list.

  • Siddaramaiah’s son Yatindra said, I will not contest Karnataka elections

    Siddaramaiah’s son Yatindra said, I will not contest Karnataka elections

    Mandya (IANS) | Leader of the Opposition Siddaramaiah’s son Yatindra Siddaramaiah on Saturday said he will not contest the upcoming assembly elections. Congress MLA Yatindra from Varuna constituency represented the same constituency in the 2018 assembly elections. But, this time Siddaramaiah is contesting from Varuna seat and there was curiosity about which seat Yatindra would contest from.

    Yatindra explained, I will not contest from any constituency. I have started campaigning for my father Siddaramaiah since January. Varuna constituency does not belong to any individual. I have not given up my seat for my father. Voters are the owners of the constituency.

    This is my father’s last election and the people of Varuna constituency wanted him to contest. Yatindra won from Varuna constituency with a margin of over 45,000 votes. He has earned a good name for himself in the constituency for his polite and reciprocating behaviour. Yatindra is a doctor by profession.

    Sources said that since Siddaramaiah would be busy campaigning across the state, his son took up the responsibility of ensuring his victory from the Varuna constituency.

    Sources say that Siddaramaiah had fielded G.K. God’s defeat was ensured. Similarly, Siddaramaiah asked state party president D.K. Shivakumar and did not include him in the cabinet for a long time. These days he is competing with him for the post of Chief Minister.

    Keeping various factors in mind, Siddaramaiah’s team is not taking any chances and choosing a safe seat for him. Although political circles say that anything can happen in Varuna assembly constituency.

    –IANS