Congress members will undoubtedly agree with the assessment that their party’s leadership leaves them positively or negatively impacted more often, flummoxed. In Karnataka, the party high command has attempted, on the face of it, a delicate balancing act by appointing its best trouble-shooter in recent years, DK Shivakumar, as state…
Something seems amiss with those dealing with law and its enforcement. And Karnataka appears to be setting new standards. In the last few weeks, Karnataka has gained notoriety for filing cases of sedition against an illiterate single mother, her teacher colleague, an indiscreet teenager and questioning by the police of…
These are still early days but it appears that the seeds have been sown for the roots of the tree to almost shake the foundation of the house that Karnataka chief minister BS Yediyurappa has built under the banner of the BJP. Disgruntlement within the party over loyalists being denied…
Dropping names is par for the course in politics. Just like there was a time when Indira Gandhi’s name would be dropped in Congress circles to curb dissidence, it has now become inevitable for the leaders of the BJP to drop the “central leadership” tag to send a message across.…
As the year comes to an end, Karnataka chief minister BS Yediyurappa has made a flip-flop – nothing surprising in a year that has seen more than its share of those. It was perhaps even inevitable that Yediyurappa, the ace politician, should do one over compensation to the families of…
Karnataka chief minister BS Yediyurappa has quietly proved to the duo of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and party president and union home minister Amit Shah, that age is only a number and that the concept of Margadarshak Mandal will not be applicable to him. Fit enough to be relegated to…
Fifteen MLAs of the Karnataka assembly have achieved their goal of contesting the by-elections on December 05 with the Supreme Court upholding their disqualification. The MLAs had gone to the Supreme Court questioning the action of the then Speaker Ramesh Kumar for not accepting their resignations but instead disqualifying them…
Tapes have always raised a stink in politics. And, Karnataka can claim to be the pioneering state in the country in shaping power politics. But the news that is coming out of the latest tape is simply this. That the country’s home minister and president of the ruling BJP, Amit…
The unpredictable approach of the Election Commission (EC) in notifying fresh dates for the by-elections to the 15 seats of the Karnataka legislative assembly may raise many eyebrows. More so, after informing the Supreme Court that it will await its judgement in the disqualification case. Politically, however, the debate is…
The contrast was there for all to see. A few hours before former minister DK Shivakumar was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in Delhi, one of the three deputy chief ministers in the BJP government in Karnataka put out a tweet that bluntly told the Congress trouble-shooter that he…