Bjp And Bellary Brothers

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  Congress Shocks BJP In Karnataka's Ballari, Wins By A Huge Margin

  In a massive boost for Karnataka's ruling coalition, the Congress won in BJP's beachhead Ballari by a huge margin as votes were counted Tuesday for bypolls in three parliamentary and two assembly seats.

• Elections 2014: Reddy brothers' clout to be tested in Bellary

  Bellary is expected to test the popularity of the Siddaramaiah government in Karnataka. The iron ore-rich constituency had come under the BJP's control in 2004, thanks largely to the clout of mining baron Janardhan Reddy and his two brothers. Their close associate B Sriramulu is now in the fray from the reserved seat, but the Reddy brothers are no ...

• BS Sriramulu re-joins BJP, says Sushma Swaraj 'like my mother'

  BS Sriramulu, close aid of the jailed mining baron Janardhan Reddy, re-joined the BJP in Bangalore today. Mr Sriramulu had left the party and formed the BSR Congress after differences with the party leadership. But he is now all set to return to the fold - and is expected to get the ticket from the iron-ore rich constituency of Bellary. The seat is...

• Karnataka elections: Reddy brothers' clout waning, Congress hopes to wrest Bellary from BJP

  The iron-ore rich district of Bellary in Karnataka shot into national prominence politically in 1999 when Congress chief Sonia Gandhi took on and defeated the BJP's Sushma Swaraj in the Lok Sabha elections.

• Karnataka elections promise high drama

  Key ministers who served the BJP government pitted against each other, brothers crossing swords, erosion of Bellary mining baron's influence, a ruling party minus heavyweight B S Yeddyurappa and a fragmented political landscape - the May five Assembly elections in Karnataka have all the ingredients of a potboiler.

• Karnataka's Reddys learn money, crowds don't always mean votes

  Switching from cycle-riding to heli-hopping and lording over Bellary and the BJP in Karnataka, mining barons Reddy brothers and their associates are learning a bitter lesson: money and crowds do not always translate into votes.

• With Bellary, Reddys show BJP their clout

  The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party's pampered, ambitious and lately turned-rebellious Reddy brothers on Sunday dealt a massive blow to the party in their stronghold Bellary as their candidate won the assembly by-poll with a huge margin while the BJP candidate lost his security deposit.

• Jolt for BJP as Sreeramulu wins Bellary bypoll

  Ruling BJP today suffered a humiliating defeat in Bellary, the stronghold of Reddy brothers, when their protege and former minister B Sreeramulu won the by-election in the Rural Assembly constituency by a huge margin of 46,000 votes.

• Sushma vs Digvijaya on those troublesome Reddy bros

  The arrest of Janardhana Reddy - one among the trio of the powerful Reddy brothers of Bellary - has sparked off a political war of words between the two major parties, the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

• Indicted for kickbacks, Yeddyurappa heads to Delhi

  Karnataka Lokayukta Santosh Hegde's mammoth report on illegal mining - over 10,000 pages in two steel trunks - has been formally presented to the state chief secretary. The report directly indicts Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa; says he and his family are involved in illegal mining, and that between 2006 and 2010 the state lost Rs 16,085 crores be...

• BJP to clip Bellary brothers' wings?

  Sources have told NDTV that the BJP's central leadership wants to clip the wings of the influential Reddy brothers, mining barons and Karnataka ministers.Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yeddiyurappa has been asked to treat them not as power centre but as any other ministers.Yeddiyurappa has been asked to take charge of the bureaucracy in the Bellary re...