Karnataka Election 2023 LIVE: Amit Shah Says 'Giving Vote to JDS Means Polling for Cong'. And This Leader Proves Him Right

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi said that the BJP despite knowing that Nandini is a cooperative fromt he the south, the party is trying to bring in Gujarat’s Amul.

While campaigning in poll-bound Karnataka, Priyanka Gandhi said that the Bharatiya Janata Party spoke about reservation but they cheated the people. “In Center, they have their own government then why didn’t they add it to the 9th Schedule? Here, they only do publicity but did nothing at Center,” added Gandhi.

Karnataka MLC SL Bhojegowda, who is from a faction of former CM HD Kumaraswamy, has shocked JDS. In a video, which has now gone viral on social media, Gowda is seen asking voters to vote in favour of Congress candidate of Chikmagalur constituency.

While campaigning for the party  in Bagalkote, Union Home Minister and BJP leader Amit Shah said that if Congress comes to power in Karnataka, there will be all-time high corruption, appeasement politics, familial politics and riots in the state.

While campaigning for the the BJP in Karnataka, Amit Shah said that the poll-bound state was badly affected by PFI and that Congress didn’t do anything about it for the past 70 years. He, however, lauded PM Modi’s efforts and said that the Prime Minister one morning put all of “them” in jail.

This Assembly election is not just to choose an MLA but to hand over the future of the state in to the hands of PM Modi. It is an election to make Karnataka a developed state and also bring political stability here, said Union Home Minister Amit Shah in Karnataka’s Bagalkote.

“We don’t want even a single Muslim vote,” said BJP leader and former Karnataka Minister KS Eshwarappa speaking on the issue of religious conversion at a Veerashaiva-Lingayat meeting in Shivamogga yesterday.

Karnataka Chief Minister & BJP leader Basavaraj Bommai campaigned in Hubli-Dharwad West Assembly constituency.

Supreme Court adjourns till May 9 hearing on plea challenging the Karnataka government’s decision to scrap 4% OBC reservation for Muslims.

Meanwhile, the Karnataka government has again assured that no admissions or appointments will take place on the basis of this government order till May 9

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh to campaign from tomorrow in Karnataka’s Belagavi and Bagalkote.

Fifth-richest realtor businessman of Bangalore, Reddy Veeranna, has reached ED office for questioning in a money laundering case.

The strong smell of a fresh catch of fish in the coastal town of Karwar in Karnataka is mixed with a sniff of opportunity the Congress sees in this Hindutva bastion of the Bharatiya Janata Party. The Congress hopes that the winds of change it perceives in the state engulf this constituency in Uttara Kannada, which has been the stronghold of the BJP. Anant Kumar Hegde, who has been the MP from the Lok Sabha constituency of Uttara Kannada, where Karwar falls, ensured that this sleepy coastal town had the Hindutva flag flying. The Congress hopes to break this hold. Read More

BJP Karnataka vice-president BY Vijayendra, who is campaigning extensively across Karnataka, has said the party would have been in a better position if his father, BS Yediyurappa, had continued in the chief minister’s chair.

Speaking exclusively to News18.com, BY Vijayendra said, “I don’t deny the fact that if Yediyurappa ji had continued as the CM, probably, the BJP would have been in a better position. Yediyurappa himself decided to step down to give space for new generation leaders. He himself had taken the decision in the interest of the party, and everybody had welcomed this. The Congress is trying to make an issue out of this,” said Vijayendra. Read More

Ahead of the Karnataka assembly elections, the political parties have been tirelessly campaigning around the state. And even as they take potshots at each other, the latest is the Congress calling the ruling party “ant-Lingayat”. Earlier, Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai, in a press conference, stated that the BJP has not yet taken a call on the announcement of a Lingayat CM.

CM Bommai took charge of the office on July 28, 2021, after BS Yediyurappa voluntarily resigned. The 61-year-old is a three-time MLA from the Shiggaon constituency and has filed his nomination for the 2023 election for the fourth time. Let’s take a quick look at CM Bommai’s political timeline. Read More

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday said the May 10 Assembly polls in Karnataka were all about Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s development politics versus Congress’ appeasement politics and defended the state BJP government’s decision to scrap the 4% reservation for Muslims.

He asserted that BJP would form a government with a full majority in Karnataka and once again strengthen the party’s entry in the south of India.

“Congress even today is indulging in appeasement politics. The 4% Muslim reservation that was given by the Congress has been ended by the BJP, and it has increased the reservation for Lingayat, Vokkaliga, SC/STs,” Shah said.

(Inputs from PTI)

BJP president JP Nadda on Monday accused former Karnataka of creating obstacles to the implementation of Central schemes pioneered by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the state.

The BJP national president made the remark while holding a roadshow at Sidlaghatta in Chikkaballapur district on Tuesday.

(Inputs from ANI)

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday appealed to the voters of the poll-bound state of Karnataka to not give more than 40 seats to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the upcoming May 10 assembly elections.

Addressing a public rally at Hangal town in Haveri district, the former Congress president requested the people to give at least 150 seats to Congress, “otherwise the BJP will again try to form a government”.

“Don’t give more than 40 seats to them,” he reiterated.