Youth Congress protests against BJP, Karnataka Governor over government formation
The youth wing of the Congress staged a protest outside the Parliament House on Wednesday against the Centre and Karnataka…
The youth wing of the Congress staged a protest outside the Parliament House on Wednesday against the Centre and Karnataka…
After 2008 state elections, when BJP was three seats short of majority to form government, former minister Gali Janardhana Reddy had worked out a method to secure the required support. The entire exercise came to be known as Operation Kamala. Read on
If the BJP wins the post-poll match, it will have 21st state in its kitty, ruling over 69% of India's population. And Congress will be reduced to just two states and a union territory – Punjab, Mizoram and Puducherry
Here is a look at key seats which have been in focus due to the contestants, the region's geography or its history.
BS Yeddyurappa meets Governor, seeks seven days to prove majority. Former CM Siddaramaiah of the Congress says their support to JD(S) unconditional.
Karnataka, which is witnessing a three-cornered contest among the ruling Congress, the BJP and the JD(S), has never witnessed the same government coming to power a second time since 1989.
BJP's CM candidate BS Yeddyurappa asserted that his party will win on a clear majority and form the government in Karnataka.
About 11 per cent polling was recorded in the first two hours of voting in Karnataka, which is witnessing a three-cornered contest among the ruling Congress, the BJP and former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda's JD(S).
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is on a two-day tour of Nepal, took to Twitter on 12 May to urge the electorate of Karnataka to participate in the festival of democracy by coming out in large numbers and vote.
Polling in Bengaluru's Raja Rajeshwari Nagar segment has been postponed to 28 May in the voter ID cards case and countermanded in the city's Jayanagar seat following the death of BJP contestant BN Vijaya Kumar on 4 May.
