BJP MLA Nehru Olekar on Thursday quit the party after being denied a ticket to contest in the May 10 Assembly elections.
In significant development, former minister Sogadu Shivanna resigned from the primary membership of the BJP after being denied a ticket from the Tumkur city constituency. He formally announced his resignation through an email on Thursday.
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With the filing of nominations for the Karnataka assembly polls beginning from Thursday, the BJP has so far named 212 candidates for the May 10 elections to the 224-member House.
Mudigere BJP MLA M P Kumaraswamy on Thursday announced his resignation from the party, after he was denied ticket to contest the Karnataka Assembly polls, and blamed national General Secretary C T Ravi for not getting nominated.
BJP releases its second list of 23 candidates for Karnataka Assembly polls.
Shivamogga: Veteran Congress leader Kagodu Thimmappa on Wednesday said his daughter Dr Ranjani Rajanandini had stabbed him in his chest by joining the BJP.
Bengaluru: Social media company Twitter on Wednesday informed the High Court of Karnataka that its petition challenging the various takedown orders of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) was maintainable, as the concept of reasonableness in Article 19 of the Constitution of India pertaining to Freedom of Speech was applicable to it.
Bengaluru: BJP legislator R Shankar, who had been hoping for the party ticket from Ranebennur constituency for the Assembly elections, has resigned as MLC, following the high command’s selection of sitting MLA Arun Kumar over him.
The meeting took place at Shah's residence and was attended by BJP chief JP Nadda, party general secretary (organisation) BL Santhosh, national general secretary and Karnataka in-charge Arun Singh, and Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan.
Bengaluru: Ahead of Karnataka polls, where Jagdish Shetter is reportedly being denied of a ticket, BJP leader BS Yediyurappa said, Former CM of Karnataka Jagdish Shetter is likely to will get the ticket from BJP.
