Devaraj B Hirehalli

BENGALURU: With Karnataka BJP president BY Vijayendra and Leader of Opposition in Assembly R Ashoka scheduled to meet party national president Nitin

BENGALURU: A delegation of BJP leaders from Karnataka, including party state president BY Vijayendra and Leader of Opposition in Assembly R Ashoka, met BJP Nati

BENGALURU: The Congress high command, which reportedly asked Karnataka Chief Minister DK Shivakumar not to entertain lobbying by party legislators for ministerial posts, is likely to take a decision on cabinet expansion on its own without holding any consultations with state party leaders.

BENGALURU: Cross-voting by 11 National Democratic Aalliance (NDA) MLAs during the June 18 MLC polls continues to haunt the alliance partners — BJP and Janata Dal (Secular).

BENGALURU: Even as the Karnataka cabinet has decided to defer the 15-day monsoon session of the legislature to August owing to the ongoing SIR of electoral rolls, the cabinet will likely be expanded anytime between July 10 and 14, informed sources told The New Indian Express.

DEVANAHALLI(BENGALURU): AICC president and LoP in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge on Sunday trained his guns at the RSS and BJP, saying both organisations looted over Rs 20,000 crore in the name of the

BENGALURU: Union Minister for Steel and Heavy Industries and Janata Dal (Secular) leader HD Kumaraswamy has shown keen interest in fielding his party candidate in the upcoming bypolls to Hiriyur Assembly constituency.

BENGALURU: With the Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, expected to return to India from his foreign tour on Sunday evening, Karnataka Chief Minister DK Shivakumar, his predecessor Siddaramaiah and KPCC president BK Hariprasad are likely to be summoned anytime soon to New Delhi by the Congress high command to discuss the much-delayed cabinet expansion.

BENGALURU: Union Minister for Heavy Industries and Steel H D Kumaraswamy is showing all indications of emerging as NDA's consensus candidate for the chief minister's post in the 2028 Assembly polls. He, too, has reportedly said that he will return to state politics at an appropriate time.

Back home, aspirants such as Ramdurg MLA Ashok Pattan, Sringeri MLA T D Raje Gowda, and Arsikere MLA K M Shivalinge Gowda called on Kharge.