The Latest Breaking News from Karnataka

Stressing the need for having a “double-engine government” for the development of Karnataka, BJP national president J.P. Nadda warned that the Union government’s development and welfare programme will be stopped if Congress comes to power in the State.

Condemning Income Tax raids on the houses and business outlets of Congress leaders and supporters on Saturday, Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) spokesperson and former Minister Priyank Kharge questioned the timing of the raids ahead of Assembly Elections in the State.

Karnataka has seen 23 Chief Ministers since 1947. Of them, nine were Lingayats, seven were Vokkaligas, two were Brahmins, and five were from Other Backward Class (OBC) communities.

The Election Commission of India (ECI) has issued a notice to the KPCC president for publishing an advertisement in national and local newspapers in Karnataka “with unsubstantiated information” regarding alleged rates cited for appointments and transfers, kinds of jobs and commissions by the BJP.

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“Please give us full majority so that the BJP does not indulge in horse-trading of legislators tomorrow,” Rahul Gandhi, Congress leader said on Saturday.

In her first public rally in poll-bound Karnataka, Congress leader Sonia Gandhi said in Hubballi on Saturday that power had made the BJP government arrogant and made them not accountable to the people. Addressing a rally to campaign for party candidates in Hubballi-Dharwad and surrounding areas, Ms. Gandhi said BJP…

Road Transport Corporations in Karnataka have cautioned the general public that on May 9 and 10, they are curtailing the number of services to provide buses for election duty.

Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Saturday condemned an alleged threat issued by a BJP candidate in the Karnataka Assembly election to kill Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and his family members.