Last Updated:February 07, 2025, 15:38 IST BJP national president JP Nadda, who was seated in the house, immediately stood up to clarify that no such demand was made by Naidu or any alliance partner in the NDA Both the TDP and JDS are currently part of the NDA, which is led by the BJP. (PTI…
Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan also said it is a tradition of the Congress to react to such statements for political gains. (Image: PTI/File) The Kerala Congress, meanwhile, lashed out at the CPI(M) claiming that there is an “unholy nexus” between the party and the BJP due to which it had come to power in the…
Sipping a cup of tea, a group of men was sitting by the auto stand in former prime minister and JDS supremo Deve Gowda’s backyard, Hassan’s Holenarsipura, discussing local politics. When asked how they felt about the recent JDS-BJP tie-up for the upcoming 2024 general elections, some looked surprised while a couple of others suppressed…
Preetham Gowda, a former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislator from the Hassan assembly constituency, famously wrested the seat from the Janata Dal Secular (JDS) in 2018. Hassan is the political fortress of JDS chief Deve Gowda’s family and Preetham’s win was considered a major debacle. However, the JDS managed to regain the seat in the…
HD Revanna, the Hassan-strongman son of former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda, maintains that the Muslims will continue to support Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) despite the alliance with the BJP, which was formalised a week ago. He confidently says it will be the minorities, who will take the initiative to remove the Congress government in Karnataka….
A few minutes after JDS leader HD Kumaraswamy met the top BJP leadership in New Delhi to cement a deal with them for the next Lok Sabha elections, someone in Karnataka joked that JDS should change its name to JDC or Janata Dal “Communal”. Jokes apart, it was a serious statement, given that the JDS…
Curated By: Sanstuti Nath Last Updated: September 08, 2023, 13:04 IST BJP and JD(S) leaders meet to discuss the 2024 Lok Sabha election alliance (Image: PTI/File) As per sources, Hassan, Mandya, Bengaluru Rural, Chikkaballapura, and Tumakuru are the seats. BJP is still reluctant to give up Chikkaballapura which it currently holds The Bharatiya Janata Party…
Curated By: Sumedha Kirti Last Updated: September 08, 2023, 12:51 IST G20 Dinner: Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge has not been invited for the event, while CM Mamata Banerjee will arrive for the dinner in New Delhi on Saturday. G20 Dinner: Kharge is a member of Parliament, Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha, and is the…
HD Deve Gowda’s party, the JD(S), lost deposits in two-thirds of the seats it contested in the Karnataka Assembly elections earlier this year, paving the way for a Congress win in the state, data from an analytical report by the Election Commission (EC) shows. For long, the political wisdom from Karnataka elections was that the…