HD Deve Gowda’s government produced India’s second most reformist budget after Manmohan Singh’s in 1991 read more

Reacting to media reports that he is opposed to Congress leader DK Shivakumar’s induction in the cabinet, Deve Gowda said it is for the Congress to decide who from their party should be made deputy CM or any other minister, and he is only interested... read more

The speed with which the Congress party approached Janata Dal (Secular) obviated the stalemate that could have made the Governor’s invite to the Bharatiya Janata Party seem fair. read more

Why is it that the Deve Gowda-founded JD(S) has managed to become the fulcrum of Karnataka politics by wedging itself between Congress and BJP, the two national parties looking to dominate state politics? read more

The Congress agreed to play second fiddle to JD(S) in Karnataka despite bagging 78 seats and the latter only 37, in a significant departure from the past when the party would bargain for leadership role while negotiating post-poll alliances. read more

Kumarswamy faces a a delicate balancing act in allocating portfolios in his Congress-JD(S) coalition government in Karnataka. read more

BS Yeddyurappa resigned as chief minister of Karnataka ahead of a floor test in the assembly ordered by the Supreme Court. In a speech before resigning, Yeddyurappa said that the mandate was not for the Congress and the JD (S), and that the BJP was invited to form the government because it emerged as the single largest party. Congress and the JD(S) with a combined majority in the assembly, will now form the government with HD Kumaraswamy as the chief minister. (HT Correspondent)read more

Twenty-two years ago, the BJP had emerged as the single-largest party on the national stage and was invited to form what is famously known as the 13-day government. read more

BS Yeddyurappa was sworn-in on Thursday as the chief minister after the Karnataka governor invited him to form the government and gave him 15 days to prove majority. read more

The JD(S) and Congress have moved the Supreme Courtchallenging the decision of the Karnataka governor to invite BJP’s BS Yeddyurappa to take oath as chief minister. read more

Bharatiya Janata Party leader BS Yeddyurappa took oath as Karnataka’s chief minister on May 17 after the Supreme Court paved the way for his swearing-in in a rare overnight hearing. After the results of the May 12 assembly elections threw up a hung assembly, both the BJP and the Congress-JD(S) combine had separately met the governor Vajubhai Vala and staked claim to form the next government. The governor, on Wednesday night, invited Yeddyurappa as leader of the single largest party, a move that was decried by the Congress which immediately approached the apex court to stall the oath taking ceremony. After a nearly three-and-a-half hour hearing, a three-judge bench refused to stay Yeddyurappa’s swearing-in. The court, however, said the swearing-in was subject to the final outcome of the matter before it and posted the case for further hearing at 10.30 a.m. on May 18. (Hindustan Times)read more

In a rare pre-dawn hearing on an appeal by the Congress-JD(S) combine, the Supreme Court on Thursday refused to stay BJP leader BS Yeddyurappa’s swearing-in as Karnataka chief minister. read more

Since 2014, no sitting Congress chief minister – eight in all including Prithviraj Chavan in Maharashtra, Tarun Gogoi in Assam, and Oommen Chandy in Kerala – has been able to retain power. read more

Vajubhai Vala became the governor of Karnataka in September 2014, months after the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) regime took charge. read more

Following the Karnataka election results throwing up a fractured mandate, May 16 has proved to be a day of fast-moving political developments. Both the BJP and the Congress held meetings in the morning. BS Yeddyurappa met the state governor to stake claim after being elected leader of BJP legislature party. The Congress-JD (S) combine, which has also staked claim to form government, accused the saffron party of indulging in horse-trading. JD(S) leader HD Kumaraswamy said in a press conference that some of them [BJP] have approached leaders in our party and offered them Rs 100 crore and ministerial posts. The BJP has denied the accusation. With hectic political activity still on in the southern state, all eyes are now on governor Vajubhai Vala to see what happens next and who ultimately forms the government. Click on this link for live updates (Hindustan Times)read more