New Delhi/Bangalore, Nov 8,The Bharatiya Janata Party Sunday ended the two-week-old crisis in its first government in Karnataka by assigning a key role in the state affairs to senior party leader Sushma Swaraj in return for dissidents dropping their demand for removal of Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa.
New Delhi/Bangalore, Nov 8, The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Sunday heaved a sigh of relief as it announced an end to the 14-day crisis in its Karnataka unit, triggered by dissidents demanding ouster of Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa. But it did not give out details of the understanding reached between the two factions.
Bangalore, Nov 7, Dissident Karnataka Minister G. Janardhana Reddy, who is leading a campaign for the removal of Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa, has displayed amazing consistency in his stand as well as in his statements on the turmoil for the past nearly a fortnight.
Bangalore, Nov 7, In a rare instance in Indian politics, Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa, facing revolt from a few ministers and legislators, Saturday shed tears publicly at his plight, having struggled for decades to bring the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to power.
Bangalore/New Delhi, Nov 7, Karnataka Tourism Minister G. Janardhana Reddy, who leads the campaign for the removal of Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa, Saturday rubbished reports of a compromise between the warring groups and said there was no change in his stand on the leadership issue.
Bangalore/New Delhi, Nov 7, Karnataka Tourism Minister G. Janardhana Reddy, who leads the campaign for the removal of Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa, Saturday said there was no change in his stand and rubbished reports of a compromise between the warring groups.
Bangalore, Nov 7, Karnataka – the state that is known to the world as being the home of India’s outsourcing industry ccntred in and around Bangalore – faces the ignominy of now being dubbed as the home of political instability as the first Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in southern India lies paralysed by dissidence, whatever be the compromise hammered out at New Delhi.
Bangalore/New Delhi, Nov 6, Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa Friday shunted out his principal secretary to buy peace with dissident ministers and legislators but they remained firm on the demand for his removal.
Bangalore, Nov 5,Shobha Karandlaje, the lone woman minister in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in Karnataka, the party’s first ever in the south, Thursday said she was ready to quit if it saves the Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa-led ministry.
New Delhi, Nov 5, The political crisis in Karnataka’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government deepened Thursday as the dissenting Reddy brothers, who are demanding Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa’s scalp, refused to meet him while the party central leadership reiterated that there would be no change in the chief ministership.