Karnataka Political Drama

With the political drama in Maharashtra subsiding, the focus has now turned to the upcoming electoral contest in neighbouring Karnataka. On December 5, the southern state will witness bypolls to 15 assembly seats vacated by former Congress and Janata Dal Secular MLAs who switched allegiance to the BJP earlier this year.

The Karnataka coalition crisis took a stunning turn today as senior Congress leader DK Shivakumar was stopped from entering the five-star hotel in Mumbai where rebel lawmakers are staying, after they wrote to the police for protection from him.

Janata Dal (Secular) chief HD Deve Gowda Wednesday broke down and said he was pained by allegations of dynasty politics against him.

Karnataka BJP president BS Yeddyurappa has said some Congress MLAs skipping the Congress Legislature Party meeting and the deep differences between the ruling coalition partners are an indication that a volcano may erupt in the coming days.

The power play between the ruling Congress-JDS coalition and BJP in Karnataka continued on Wednesday, as both sides escalated their war of words and went into an overdrive to keep their legislators together.

Amid the political turmoil triggered by charges of horse trading flung at each other by the ruling coalition and the BJP, Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy said today that things were "under control" and there was no reason for worry.

Karnataka politics, rarely short of drama, is seeing the latest chapter of back and forth between the three main parties in the state, the ruling Janata Dal (Secular), the Congress and the BJP.

BJP general secretary Ram Madhav today saw 'karma' catching up with the Congress-JD(S) alliance in Karnataka as he recalled the dismissal of the BJP government in Gujarat in 1996 involving some of the key protagonists in the political drama unfolding currently in the southern state.

Four days ahead of Karnataka assembly election, the BJP claimed to have found thousands of fake voter ID cards in a Bengaluru apartment that the party says, was linked to a Congress lawmaker, and demanded that elections to the Raja Rajeshwari Nagar constituency be cancelled.

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.

Congress in Karnataka on Wednesday took a dig at former chief minister BS Yeddyurappa's tour of drought-hit areas, dubbing it as a "high drama" and "politically motivated".

There has been a dramatic turn of events in the ongoing Karnataka political drama. Thirteen of the fourteen rebel MLAs who had withdrawn their support to Yeddyurappa's government, suddenly left the Goa resort that had been there temporary home for Chennai, in the company of the JD(S). Only one man was left behind. Renukacharya, a former leader of t...

With the political drama in Maharashtra subsiding, the focus has now turned to the upcoming electoral contest in neighbouring Karnataka. On December 5, the southern state will witness bypolls to 15 assembly seats vacated by former Congress and Janata Dal Secular MLAs who switched allegiance to the BJP earlier this year.

The Karnataka coalition crisis took a stunning turn today as senior Congress leader DK Shivakumar was stopped from entering the five-star hotel in Mumbai where rebel lawmakers are staying, after they wrote to the police for protection from him.

Janata Dal (Secular) chief HD Deve Gowda Wednesday broke down and said he was pained by allegations of dynasty politics against him.

Karnataka BJP president BS Yeddyurappa has said some Congress MLAs skipping the Congress Legislature Party meeting and the deep differences between the ruling coalition partners are an indication that a volcano may erupt in the coming days.

The power play between the ruling Congress-JDS coalition and BJP in Karnataka continued on Wednesday, as both sides escalated their war of words and went into an overdrive to keep their legislators together.

Amid the political turmoil triggered by charges of horse trading flung at each other by the ruling coalition and the BJP, Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy said today that things were "under control" and there was no reason for worry.

Karnataka politics, rarely short of drama, is seeing the latest chapter of back and forth between the three main parties in the state, the ruling Janata Dal (Secular), the Congress and the BJP.

BJP general secretary Ram Madhav today saw 'karma' catching up with the Congress-JD(S) alliance in Karnataka as he recalled the dismissal of the BJP government in Gujarat in 1996 involving some of the key protagonists in the political drama unfolding currently in the southern state.

Four days ahead of Karnataka assembly election, the BJP claimed to have found thousands of fake voter ID cards in a Bengaluru apartment that the party says, was linked to a Congress lawmaker, and demanded that elections to the Raja Rajeshwari Nagar constituency be cancelled.

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.

Congress in Karnataka on Wednesday took a dig at former chief minister BS Yeddyurappa's tour of drought-hit areas, dubbing it as a "high drama" and "politically motivated".

There has been a dramatic turn of events in the ongoing Karnataka political drama. Thirteen of the fourteen rebel MLAs who had withdrawn their support to Yeddyurappa's government, suddenly left the Goa resort that had been there temporary home for Chennai, in the company of the JD(S). Only one man was left behind. Renukacharya, a former leader of t...