Bengaluru: Karnataka Congress on Saturday schooled BJP over the party’s move to nominate BY Vijayendra for MLC ticket and asked the saffron party if this was not “Dynasty politics”.

“Let BJP answer nominating BJP Vice President BY Vijayendra as MLC candidate. Is this not dynasty politics? Isn’t Vijayendra getting the ticket only because he is the son of BS Yediyurappa?

The Karnataka BJP core committee, which met on Saturday, is said to have recommended the candidature of party vice president B Y Vijayendra, former chief minister B S Yediyurappa’s son, for the upcoming Legislative Council elections.

Vijayendra’s name is among over a dozen other names that the core committee has discussed for seven Legislative Council seats for which elections will be held on June 3. Elections are necessary as seven MLCs are retiring on June 14.

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Budapest/Washington: US Vice President J D Vance has said that Lebanon was never included in the ceasefire understanding with Iran, describing the confusion as a “legitimate misunderstanding”.

Speaking to reporters before departing from Hungary, Vance said, “I think the Iranians thought that the ceasefire included Lebanon and it just didn’t. We never made that promise.”

He stressed that the United States had not included Lebanon in the scope of the ceasefire at any stage.

His remarks come amid continued Israeli strikes in Lebanon, where more than 200 people were reported killed, even as ceasefire talks between Iran and the US move forward.

Vance said Israel had “offered … to check themselves a little bit in Lebanon because they want to make sure that our negotiation is successful”.

He warned that if Iran allows the situation in Lebanon to affect the negotiations, it could derail the talks.

“If Iran wants to let this negotiation fall apart in a conflict where they were getting hammered over Lebanon, which has nothing to do with them and which the United States never once said was part of the ceasefire, that’s ultimately their choice,” he said.