Bengaluru: New members of Vidhana Parishad take oath on Thursday
Bengaluru: The four new members of the Karnataka Legislative Council took oath, administered by Council Chairperson Basavaraj Horatti, at a formal event organized at the Banquet Hall of the Vidhana Soudha on Thursday.
KPCC Communication and Media Cell president Ramesh Babu, NRI Forum vice-president Dr. Arathi Krishna, senior journalist Dr. K Shivakumar, and Dalit leader FH Jakkappanavar were nominated by the state government to fill the vacancies in the Vidhana Parishad, the Upper House of the Karnataka Legislature.
Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar, Home Minister Dr. G Parameshwara, Law Minister HK Patil, Animal Husbandry Minister Venkatesh, Minor Irrigation, Science and Technology Minister NS Boseraju and Housing Minister Zameer Ahmed Khan were among those present at the event.
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Karnataka HC quashes BJP's defamation case against Rahul Gandhi
Bengaluru (PTI): The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday quashed the defamation proceedings initiated by the BJP against top Congress leader Rahul Gandhi.
The case was filed in 2023, when BJP was in power in Karnataka, following a "corruption rate card" published by the then opposition Congress to claim large scale irregularities prevailing in the state under the saffron party's rule.
Along with Gandhi, now Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha, the BJP had accused the then Karnataka LoP Siddaramaiah and Congress state president D K Shivakumar.
Presently Siddaramaiah is the Chief Minister and Shivakumar is his deputy.
Challenging the defamation case, Gandhi had approached the High Court stating that the continuation of the case would be an abuse of law.
The bench of Justice S Sunil Dutt Yadav allowed the petition.
The complainant said that Rahul Gandhi, Siddaramaiah and Shivakumar had conspired together to defame the BJP government and made baseless allegation and insinuation.
