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Karnataka polls: Kumaraswamy wins but son Nikhil loses
Bengaluru: In a shock to former PM H.D. Deve Gowda's family, his grandson and JD-S candidate Nikhil Kumaraswamy lost the Ramnagar seat to Congress candidate H.A. Iqbal Hussain.
Hussain polled 72,898 votes and Kumaraswamy secured 61,692…
Karnataka elections: Celebrations at Congress HQ in Delhi
New Delhi: With the Congress crossing the magic number '113' and leading on 118 seats in the Karnataka Assembly elections, the party workers started celebrating at 24 Akbar road, the party head office.
Bursting crackers, distributing…
BJD sweeps Jharsuguda bypoll in Odisha; Dipali breaks Naba Das’ record of vote margin
Bhubaneswar: Adding another feather in its victory cap, Odisha's ruling BJD swept the bypoll to Jharsuguda Assembly Constituency with a margin over 48,000 votes.
Dipali Das, who is the candidate of BJD, won the votes by 48619 votes…
Karnataka poll results: Initial trends indicate close fight between Cong, BJP
Bengaluru: Initial trends in Karnataka indicate a close fight between the BJP and Congress across the state. The JD(S) was also leading in 10 seats.
The trends were available for more than 150 seats. BJP and Congress candidates were…
Karnataka poll results: Congress, BJP ready with post-verdict strategies
Hubbali: With the results of fiercely fought Karnataka Assembly elections coming up today, the Congress and the BJP have finalised their post-verdict strategies.
They have made separate plans for both -- absolute majority and fractured…
K’taka: Hectic activities in Cong camp; high command ready with ‘50:50 formula’
Bengaluru: Buoyed by the reports of "being very close to the seat of power in Karnataka", the Congress camp witnessed hectic activities on Friday, a day ahead of the announcement of the poll results.
Meanwhile, sources revealed that the…
Odisha CM rules out joining ‘third front’ after meeting PM
Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik made it clear on Thursday that he is not going to join the third front or a common political platform of non-BJP parties.
Patnaik also said that the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) will go solo in…
Siddaramaiah most preferred CM choice in Karnataka, shows survey
New Delhi: If the trends thrown up by the ABP/C-Voter Exit Poll for Karnataka hold, former Chief Minister and Congress leader Siddaramaiah could be back as the CM of the southern state.
Voters in Karnataka seem to have identified him as…
Exit polls predict hung Assembly in K’taka; Cong likely to emerge as single-largest party
New Delhi: With the Karnataka Assembly elections concluding on Wednesday, a slew of exit polls have mostly predicted a hung Assembly with the Congress emerging as the single-largest, followed by the BJP with less than 100 seats.
In the…
Odisha: Campaign for Jharsuguda bypoll ends
Bhubaneswar: The campaign for Jharsuguda bypoll in Odisha came to an end at 6 pm today.
The three major political parties in Odisha—Biju Janata Dal (BJD), Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Congress—pulled out all the stops to attract the…