Bengaluru: Rahul Gandhi today made it clear that he was ready to become Prime Minister if the Congress party emerged as the single largest party in the 2019 national election.

Mysuru: Dismissing BJP’s allegations that a “declared absconder” had given him an expensive wristwatch as one of the saffron party’s “hundred lies”, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said he had clarified that the Hublot watch had been gifted to him by an NRI friend.

Udupi: Medha N. Bhat, a student of T.A. Pai English Medium High School, Udupi, is among the eight students, who secured the second place in the State in the SSLC examinations with 624 of 625 marks.

Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said that there is Congress wave in the state after Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP president Amith Shah visited Karnataka and campaigned here.

Former prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh appreciated the administration of Siddaramaiah government, which has given priority for social, health and education sectors.

“The BJP has released a photo to make an allegation against me. But I too can show the photo of Prime Minister Narendra Modi along with Neerav Modi at Davos and make allegation. Shall I”, asked Chief Minister Siddaramaiah in Twitter.

Former speaker in Lok Sabha, Meira Kumar said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is claiming that it is BJP which made Ramanath Kovind as the first dalit president of the country, has no memory because, before Kovind, KR Narayan was the first president belonging to dalit community.

Minister Tanveer Sait’s followers have allegedly attacked a journalist who has been to reporting at NR Mohalla in Narasimharaja constituency in Mysuru on Monday.