New Delhi: The Election Commission on Wednesday issued a notice to BJP leader Basangouda Patil Yatnal for his "vishkanya" remark against Congress leader Sonia Gandhi.

 In a stern move by the Election Commission, in compliance with the Model Code of Conduct, the face of Kannada film actor and Rajya Sabha MP Jaggesh on posters of his new film has been covered with paper.

Former Karnataka Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar -- contesting on a Congress ticket hoping to reclaim his lost self-respect-- still has photos of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah hanging on a wall in his home-office and says it is not good to remove them.

The Congress on Wednesday slammed the BJP over its "double engine" pitch in the Karnataka polls, saying the May 10 election is to propel the Karnataka engine which got "derailed" by the BJP in the last four years.

Two brothers, aged 27 and 21 years, were killed on the spot in a collision between a car and a motorbike near Ulavi in Sorab taluk on Wednesday afternoon.

In a scathing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress General secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Wednesday wondered why the "omnipresent and omniscient" leader could not see the "loot" happening in Karnataka by the '40 per cent commission government' of the BJP.

In a frontal attack on the Congress, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said the entire politics of the party was based on "divide and rule" policy, and charged it with going across the world defaming the country, when India's democracy and development was being "appreciated and respected globally".

Congress leader Siddaramaiah has declared that he would adopt Badami constituency if the Congress won the Assembly elections this month and regained power in the state.