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The State government has set up a five-member committee to inquire into the alleged misuse of funds released to the Kalyana Karnataka Development Board (KKDB) and submit a report within 15 days.

Minister for Rural Development and Panchayat Raj and son of All India Congress Committee (AICC) president M. Mallikarjun Kharge Priyank Kharge has said that the BJP hatched a conspiracy to defeat the Congress in the AICC president’s home State and humiliate him.

By winning seven out of nine segments in the recently concluded Assembly elections, the Congress has registered a spectacular performance in Kalaburagi district, the home turf of All India Congress Committee (AICC) president M. Mallikarjun Kharge.

In a major setback to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party in Kalaburagi district, the Opposition Congress successfully won seven out of nine Assembly seats, and the BJP slipped from the five seats it won in the last elections to two this election

Ahead of the Karnataka Assembly polls, BJP leader and former Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa gave up his stronghold seat of Shikaripura in favour of his son B.Y. Vijayendra. We look at how candidates from influential families fielded by political parties performed in this year’s state Assembly election.

Following the candidate’s intervention, Election Officer Naveen Kumar replaced the errant officer who was later taken into police custody.

Deputy Commissioner Yeshwanth Gurukar’s midnight filmi-style operation in which he chased and caught BJP activists who were distributing money to lure voters at Kalaburagi South constituency triggered a war of words between Congress and BJP on Tuesday.

Obliquely responding to the alleged death threat issued by Manikanth Rathod, a history-sheeter contesting the Assembly Elections from Chittapur constituency in Kalaburagi district as BJP candidate against his son and Congress candidate Priyank Kharge, All India Congress Committee (AICC) president Mallikarjun Kharge asserted that he was already living the “bonus…

Recalling how Janata Dal (Secular) had brought down the Congress-JD(S) coalition government headed by late N. Dharam Singh by withdrawing its support, Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee spokesperson and former Minister Priyank Kharge said that JD(S) facilitated the growth of communal forces in the State.