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Category: Karnataka Politics

  • BJP releases second list of candidates for Karnataka polls

    The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday released its second list of 82 candidates for elections to the 224-member Karnataka Assembly.

    The names were finalised by the party’s Central Election Committee headed by party President Amit Shah and has Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Rajnath Singh, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Health Minister Jagat Prakash Nadda among its members.

    No Muslim or Christian candidate has been given a ticket by the BJP.

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    The BJP had released the first list of 72 candidates on April 8.

    BS Yeddyurappa to contest from Shikaripura

    The party has still not announced the name of its candidate from Udupi against Congress candidate Pramod Madhwaraj, though it is almost certain that the ticket may go to former BJP MLA Raghupati Bhat. The BJP has not named its candidate from Kaup either, where Congress has fielded sitting MLA Vinay Kumar Sorake. It has however announced in its list that Sukumar Shetty will contest from Byndoor.

    The saffron party, which is striving to return to power in Karnataka after a gap of five years, has announced Yeddyurappa as its chief ministerial candidate, with a target of winning 150 out of 224 assembly seats.

    The Congress, too, had announced its first list of 218 candidates on Sunday for the state assembly polls.

    Meanwhile, Janata Dal Secular has already announced candidates for 126 constituencies. The party is in alliance with Bahujan Samaj Party for Karnataka Polls
    With polling day inching closer, Karnataka has turned into a political battleground with both the ruling Congress and the opposition BJP extensively campaigning across the state.

    The southern state goes to polls on May 12 to elect its representatives and results will be out on May 15.

  • Income Tax raid on Congress MLA and candidate in K’taka Assembly polls, B Shivanna

    According to preliminary reports, the MLA’s office and residences were raided by I-T sleuths.

    Sitting Congress MLA B Shivanna from Anekal (Bengaluru Urban) constituency who is set to contest the May 12 polls from the same seat was raided by Income Tax sleuths on Monday.
    There has been no official confirmation from the I-T Department yet on the findings.
    The raid comes incidentally a day after the ruling Congress announced its first list of candidates for the upcoming elections.  The MLA could not be reached for a comment.
    According to preliminary reports, the MLA’s office and residences were raided by I-T sleuths.
    In March, Congress MLC Raghu Achar had also faced raids by the I-T Department.  MLC Raghu is known to be a close aide of KPCC President G Parameshwara.
    The Congress in the state has maintained that the BJP-ruled centre was misusing central agencies to carry out political vendetta.
    It all started with raids carried out by the I-T Department in properties across the country owned by Energy Minister DK Shivakumar and his associates.
    The raids became contentious due to its timing.
    The raids were in August, 2017 just after Shivakumar was credited with keeping a flock of Congress MLAs from Gujarat in a resort to stop them from being poached by BJP ahead of Rajya Sabha polls.
    Minister Sivakumar who is incidentally the richest among state ministers had secured bail in March with regards to the I-T Department cases against him.
    I-T Department said that they had conducted the raids based on torn notes found on Shivakumar which suggested crores of rupees of unaccounted transactions at the Eagleton resort where the Gujarat MLAs were housed.
    The I-T officials had claimed that the raids had nothing to do with the Gujarat Rajya Sabha polls but rather a continuation of ongoing investigations.

  • ಮಂಗಳೂರು ಉತ್ತರ ವಿಧಾನ ಸಭಾ ಕ್ಷೇತ್ರದ ಎಸ್ ಡಿ ಪಿ ಐ ಅಭ್ಯರ್ಥಿಯಾಗಿ ಅಬ್ದುಲ್ ಜಲೀಲ್ ಕೃಷ್ಣಾಪುರ ಆಯ್ಕೆ

    ಮಂಗಳೂರು:ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ ರಾಜ್ಯ ವಿಧಾನ ಸಭಾ  ಚುನಾವಣೆಯ ಸೋಶಿಯಲ್ ಡೆಮಾಕ್ರಟಿಕ್ ಪಾರ್ಟಿ ಆಫ್ ಇಂಡಿಯಾ(SDPI)ಪಕ್ಷದ ದಕ್ಷಿಣ ಕನ್ನಡ ಜಿಲ್ಲೆಯ ಮಂಗಳೂರು ಉತ್ತರ ವಿಧಾನ ಸಭಾ ಕ್ಷೇತ್ರದ ಅಭ್ಯರ್ಥಿಯಾಗಿ ಎಸ್ ಡಿ ಪಿ ಐ ರಾಜ್ಯ ಸಮಿತಿ ಸದಸ್ಯರು, ಎಸ್ ಡಿ ಟಿ ಯು ಕಾರ್ಮಿಕ ಸಂಘಟನೆಯ ರಾಜ್ಯಾಧ್ಯಕ್ಷರು ಯುವ ಹೋರಾಟಗಾರು ಆದ ಅಬ್ದುಲ್ ಜಲೀಲ್.ಕೆ ಯವರನ್ನು ರಾಜ್ಯ ಸಮಿತಿಯು ಆಯ್ಕೆಗೊಳಿಸಿ ಅಧಿಕೃತವಾಗಿ ಸುರತ್ಕಲ್ ನಲ್ಲಿ ನಡೆದ ಪಕ್ಷದ ಕಾರ್ಯಕರ್ತರ ಸಮಾವೇಶದಲ್ಲಿ ಎಸ್ ಡಿ ಪಿ ಐ ರಾಜ್ಯ ಕಾರ್ಯದರ್ಶಿ ಅಲ್ಫಾನ್ಸೋ ಫ್ರಾಂಕೊ  ಘೋಷಿಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ ಎಂದು ಜಿಲ್ಲಾ ಪ್ರ.ಕಾರ್ಯದರ್ಶಿ ಇಕ್ಬಾಲ್ ಬೆಳ್ಳಾರೆ ಪ್ರಕಟನೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ತಿಳಿಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ.

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  • Congress announces list of 218 candidates for Karnataka Assembly elections

    Chief Minister Siddaramaiah will contest from the Chamundeshwari seat.


    The Congress on Sunday announced a list of 218 candidates for the Assembly elections due in Karnataka next month. The party will announce candidates for five seats later and will support an ally in one seat, News18 reported.
    The state has 224 Assembly constituencies.

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    Chief Minister Siddaramaiah will contest the election from the Chamundeshwari Assembly constituency in Mysuru. His son, Yatheendra, is the candidate from the Varuna seat, which Siddaramaiah now represents.
    Karnataka Home Affairs Minister Ramalinga Reddy’s daughter Soumya R is the Congress’ candidate from the Jayanagar constituency in Bengaluru.
    The Assembly elections in Karnataka will be held on May 12, and the votes will be counted on May 15. These elections are key because Karnataka is the only major state left under the Congress’ rule, and its results are expected to set the tone for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

    In Dakshina Kannada, sitting MLAs J R Lobo from Mangaluru South, U T Khader from Mangalore (Ullal), Mohiuddin Bava from Mangaluru North, Shakuntala Shetty from Puttur, Ramanath Rai from Bantwal and Vasant Bangera from Beltangady have been given the tickets. The Moodbidri ticket, for which Congress had three aspirants, has gone to sitting MLA Abhaychandra Jain.

    In Udupi district, Pramod Madhwaraj (Udupi), Vinay Kumar Sorake (Kaup), Rakesh Malli (Kundapur), Gopal Bhandary (Karkala) and Gopal Poojary (Byndoor) have been given the tickets.

    The Bharatiya Janata Party has yet to announce its candidates for the state polls.

  • Anupama to contest from Kaup in Udupi district

    Former police officer Anupama Shenoy announced that she would contest the Assembly elections from her native place Kaup in Udupi district.

    Speaking to presspersons, she announced the first list of 15 members from her Bharatiya Janashakti Congress who will be contesting the elections. She said the EC has approved her party’s symbol as the ladies finger.

  • Congress candidates’ list going viral on social media is fake

    Bengaluru, Apr 10: A list of Congress candidates for the upcoming Karnataka elections is doing the rounds in social media, especially on WhatsApp. As it turns out, the list is fake.

    A document titled ‘1st list of INC candidates’ went viral on social media on Tuesday April 10. However, the Congress has clarified that the list was fake.
    Chief minister Siddaramaiah himself took to Twitter to clarfiy the same, stating that the list was a product of the ‘fake news factory’.
    “I am told a list of Congress candidates for Karnataka Election is under circulation. The AICC has not approved the list of candidates yet. The “list” under circulation is fake. It has been done to create confusion. Please don’t patronize products of the #FakeNews factory.” he tweeted.

    AICC general secretary Madhu Goud Yaskhi speaking to reporters in New Delhi cautioned that a fake list of Congress candidates containing AICC seal was being circulated in social media. “We will file a complaint with the police regarding the matter. We have only finished the meeting of the screening committee. The Congress central election committee (CEC) is yet to meet,” he said.

    He also put the blame on BJP for the fake list. “This is the handiwork of the BJP IT cell. They are experts in coming up with fake news. Even Smriti Irani’s certificate is fake. Modi’s certificate is also fake. Such fake people have created this fake list,” he said.

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  • Election posters released in Udupi

    Udupi Deputy Commissioner Priyanka Mary Francis on Monday released posters and hoarding designs in Udupi depicting local culture and diversity to attract voters to the polling booths on May 12.

    Some of them have slogans in Kundapur Kannada. One of them read: “Aentha kelsidru vot hakudond marukaga” (However engaged, one should not forget to vote). Another in Tulu read: “Vot paadara undu. Bega poyiye” (Let us march fast to vote).

    The Systematic Voters Education and Electoral Participation Committee of Udupi has brought out 15 such posters.

    Meanwhile, speaking at an awareness programme on the functioning of EVMs and VVPATs at Udupi Bar Council, the Deputy Commissioner said that all 1,400 machines have been tested in the presence of representatives of political parties. She said that the representatives would be allowed to conduct mock polling to test the machines that cannot be hacked.

  • FIR filed against minister Pramod Madhwaraj

    A case has been registered against Minister for Fisheries, Youth Empowerment and Sports Pramod Madhwaraj for violating the Model Code of Conduct with his reported statement in a section of the media that the State government would give ₹ 25 lakh and a government job to P. Gururaja who won the silver medal in the 56 kg category in weightlifting at the ongoing 21st Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia, on April 5.

    Deputy Commissioner Priyanka Mary Francis said here on Sunday that Mr. Madhwaraj’s statement had appeared in some newspapers and Kannada news channels. Hence, a case had been registered for violation of Model Code of Conduct at the Udupi Town Police Station, she said.


    The personnel of the Static Surveillance Team had confiscated a total of ₹ 4.35 lakh of unaccounted for money at Sasthan on April 6. Assistant Commissioner of Kundapur Sub Division Bhoobalan said that an amount of ₹ 3.65 lakh and ₹ 70,000 had been confiscated from the occupants of two vehicles at the check-post at Sasthan. The people carrying the money did not provide any proper or valid documents for the possession for money. An amount of ₹ 93,000, which was unaccounted for, was confiscated from a wine shop in Udupi on Saturday night, he said.