Janata Dal-secular

Amid speculations of the merger of Janata Dal-Secular with BJP, former Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy said on Saturday that if everything goes smoothly, there is no question of JDS being absorbed into the BJP and they will work together.

National Conference (NC) president Farooq Abdullah on Wednesday met with former Prime Minister and Janata Dal-Secular JD (S) president HD Deve Gowda in Bengaluru.

Attacking Congress and Janata Dal-Secular (JDS) ahead of Karnataka assembly polls, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is asking for votes for development while Congress is seeking votes

Former Prime Minister HD Dewe Gowda's grandson Nikhil Kumaraswamy on Monday filed his nomination as a candidate of Janata Dal-Secular for the May 10 Assembly polls and expressed confidence that the party will be voted to power in Karnataka.

The announcement comes amid a high-stakes political battle between the ruling BJP and the opposition Congress and Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S).

The bitter strife of the Janata Dal-Secular (JDS) came out in open on Saturday a day after the cross-voting by two of its MLAs during the biennial elections for four Rajya Sabha seats in Karnataka.

Taking a dig at the BJP government in Karnataka, Janata Dal-Secular (JDS) leader and former Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy on Thursday said Income Tax (I-T) Department raids across the state might have a link with the party's 'internal revolt'.

Former Karnataka Chief Minister and Congress leader Siddaramaiah today said that he was opposed to a tie-up with Janata Dal-Secular in the last Lok Sabha elections but the party high command did not listen to him.

Janata Dal-Secular leader and former Karnataka chief minister HD Kumaraswamy on Monday said that the government should work towards lowering the cost of living as the spending power of the consumer has weakened, and it should impose COVID cess on the ultra-rich.

Janata Dal-Secular president and former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda on Wednesday expelled the three disqualified lawmakers who were responsible for bringing down the party's coalition government in Karnataka for "anti-party" activities.

The 15 rebel lawmakers of the Congress and the Janata Dal-Secular (JDS) have sought four weeks' time to appear before Speaker K R Ramesh Kumar in connection with the plea for their disqualification from the State Assembly.

Maintaining its lead through the vote count, the Congress has won 562 seats in Karnataka's 63 urban local bodies, leaving behind the BJP with 406 and the Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) 202, according to a senior poll official in Bengaluru today.

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister NChandrababu Naidu on Tuesday discussed forging a non-BJP alliance after the results of the Lok Sabha elections on Thursday with Janata Dal-Secular supremo HDDeve Gowda and Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy, a party official said.

Five Indian political party workers were killed in the Colombo suicide bombings on Easter Sunday when they reached the Shangri La Hotel for breakfast, family members said.

Four members of the Janata Dal Secular (JDS) were among five Indians killed in a series of blasts that struck Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday, Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy confirmed today. They were part of a seven-member group from Dasarahalli that had gone to the island nation after the first phase of the Lok Sabha elections on April 11.

Amid speculations of the merger of Janata Dal-Secular with BJP, former Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy said on Saturday that if everything goes smoothly, there is no question of JDS being absorbed into the BJP and they will work together.

National Conference (NC) president Farooq Abdullah on Wednesday met with former Prime Minister and Janata Dal-Secular JD (S) president HD Deve Gowda in Bengaluru.

Attacking Congress and Janata Dal-Secular (JDS) ahead of Karnataka assembly polls, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is asking for votes for development while Congress is seeking votes

Former Prime Minister HD Dewe Gowda's grandson Nikhil Kumaraswamy on Monday filed his nomination as a candidate of Janata Dal-Secular for the May 10 Assembly polls and expressed confidence that the party will be voted to power in Karnataka.

The announcement comes amid a high-stakes political battle between the ruling BJP and the opposition Congress and Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S).

The bitter strife of the Janata Dal-Secular (JDS) came out in open on Saturday a day after the cross-voting by two of its MLAs during the biennial elections for four Rajya Sabha seats in Karnataka.

Taking a dig at the BJP government in Karnataka, Janata Dal-Secular (JDS) leader and former Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy on Thursday said Income Tax (I-T) Department raids across the state might have a link with the party's 'internal revolt'.

Former Karnataka Chief Minister and Congress leader Siddaramaiah today said that he was opposed to a tie-up with Janata Dal-Secular in the last Lok Sabha elections but the party high command did not listen to him.

Janata Dal-Secular leader and former Karnataka chief minister HD Kumaraswamy on Monday said that the government should work towards lowering the cost of living as the spending power of the consumer has weakened, and it should impose COVID cess on the ultra-rich.

Janata Dal-Secular president and former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda on Wednesday expelled the three disqualified lawmakers who were responsible for bringing down the party's coalition government in Karnataka for "anti-party" activities.

The 15 rebel lawmakers of the Congress and the Janata Dal-Secular (JDS) have sought four weeks' time to appear before Speaker K R Ramesh Kumar in connection with the plea for their disqualification from the State Assembly.

Maintaining its lead through the vote count, the Congress has won 562 seats in Karnataka's 63 urban local bodies, leaving behind the BJP with 406 and the Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) 202, according to a senior poll official in Bengaluru today.

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister NChandrababu Naidu on Tuesday discussed forging a non-BJP alliance after the results of the Lok Sabha elections on Thursday with Janata Dal-Secular supremo HDDeve Gowda and Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy, a party official said.

Five Indian political party workers were killed in the Colombo suicide bombings on Easter Sunday when they reached the Shangri La Hotel for breakfast, family members said.

Four members of the Janata Dal Secular (JDS) were among five Indians killed in a series of blasts that struck Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday, Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy confirmed today. They were part of a seven-member group from Dasarahalli that had gone to the island nation after the first phase of the Lok Sabha elections on April 11.