Chief minister Kuramaswamy later says his father was referring to the local body polls, and not the Karnataka elections. read more

Former PM Deve Gowda said he was misunderstood by the media which assumed his mid-term poll comment was about the HD Kumaraswamy government. He insisted that he was talking about the local body elections. read more

HD Deve Gowda said he had asked the Congress to make Mallikarjun Kharge the chief minister, but it was the Congress that insisted that his son HD Kumaraswamy should become chief minister. read more

This was the 86-year-old’s first speech after his loss in the Tumakuru constituency in the recent Lok Sabha polls. read more

The resignation is the first major fallout of the Lok Sabha poll debacle for the coalition with JD(S) and Congress getting a seat each out of 28, even as BJP walked away with 25 seats. read more

Yeddyurappa added that the party would remain silent ‘for the time being’. read more

Interpreting the vote of this state of six crore people in 30 districts is a complex matter, but four factors stood out. read more

Kumaraswamy was affected by the verdict as both his son, Nikhil Kumaraswamy, and his father, HD Deve Gowda, lost the election from Mandya and Tumkur seats, respectively. read more

G S Basavaraj secured 5,96,127 votes while Gowda got 5,82,788votes, according to the EC details. read more

Confabulating with Gowda for over an hour in Bengaluru late Tuesday night after a meeting of opposition parties in New Delhi on the EVM issue earlier in the day, Naidu said 23 parties were raising the issue and demanding transparency and accountabil... read more

The seat witnessed a high-octane battle between chief minister HD Kumaraswamy’s son Nikhil of the Janata Dal (Secular) and independent candidate Sumalatha Ambareesh, wife of the late film star and former Union minister MH Ambareesh. read more

He said the next PM would neither be from BJP nor Congress, adding that former PM HD Deve Gowda is a dark horse in such a situation read more

Mysuru and Mandya are among state’s 28 Lok Sabha seats that have strained the relations between the ruling coalition partners. read more

Signalling possible political instability in the state after the Lok Sabha poll results, the former Chief Minister said differences between Congress and JD(S) wouldincrease after the results are out on May 23. read more

In 2019 Lok Sabha elections, it is again a contest between BS Raghavendra and Madhu Bangarappa in Shimoga. Congress is fighting the Lok Sabha elections in Karnataka in an alliance with the Janata Dal (Secular), led by Deve Gowda. read more