The Congress on Sunday declared 218 candidates for the upcoming Karnataka assembly elections to be held on May 12 with Chief Minister Siddaramaiah contesting from Chamundeshwari constituency.

New Delhi: State Congress women’s wing secretary and city corporator Pratibha Kulai has filed a complaint against five persons inculding BJP state president BS Yeddiyurappa.

Mandya: Congress and Raith Sangh jointly held a massive canvasing campaign in favour of Swaraj India Party’s Melukote Assembly candidate Darshan Puttanayya in Duddu here on Friday.

Tumkur: BJP MLA from Tumkur Rural B Suresh Gowda criticising the RSS and Union Minister Ananth Kumar has said, "They say RSS cadres are patriots. But they are the most corrupt. Only Yeddyurappa knows how many RSS members have been given land. Ananth Kumar has sowed seeds of contempt in the party where people were like brothers. He (Ananth Kumar) has used everybody to pull him (Yeddyurappa) down".

Bengaluru: In  a bid to strengthen Third Front to take on national parties, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao on Friday invited the JD(S) to be a part of the Front and has also offered to campaign for the party in the upcoming polls.

Bellary: Four members of a family including a doctor killed on the spot when the car they were travelling in crashed into a road divider near Soamsamudra on Friday morning.

Kalburgi: In a major setback to the BJP and its nominee from Afzalpur in the imminent Assembly polls Malikayya Guttedar, over a 100 party activists, including office-bearers of the party structure at various levels and elected representatives, have resolved to quit the BJP to join the Congress.

Bengaluru: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah believes that the Assembly election in the State on May 12 is a battle between communalism and secularism, and will set the agenda for 2019.