Simple majority for Congress in Council with its four nominees winning vacant seats
Bengaluru: The Congress got a simple majority in the Karnataka Legislative Council with the four vacant seats in Council filling officially on Sunday.
The party had nominated Aarathi Krishna, Ramesh Babu, FH Jakkappanavar and Shivakumar K for the seats in the Upper House of the Legislature. The posts were earlier held by UB Venkatesh, Prakash Rathod, KA Thippeswamy and CP Yogeshwar, who was nominated as a member of the BJP but later won the Assembly polls from Channapatna on a Congress ticket.
There had earlier been speculations that Aarathi and Babu would be joined by senior journalist Dinesh Amin Mattu and Dalit leader D G Sagar, however, the Congress, in its nomination, replaced Mattu and Sagar with Jakkappanavar and Shivakumar.
A majority in the Legislature will be crucial for the ruling party to ensure the passage of bills. The Congress faced a setback during the recently concluded monsoon session, when the BJP-JD(S) Opposition voted against the Karnataka Souharda Sahakari (Amendment) Bill, 2025, and defeated the bill.
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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.
