Karnataka BJP strongman B S Yediyurappa on Thursday said Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is no match for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and asserted that his party would come back to power with absolute majority.

Former JD(S) MLA S R Srinivas (Gubbi Srinivas alias Vasu) on Thursday became the third legislator to resign from the post, and join Congress, this month, ahead of May 10 Assembly polls in Karnataka.

A single-member bench of the Karnataka High Court on Thursday disqualified JD(S) legislator from Tumkur Rural constituency DC Gowrishankar as MLA in connection with a case of attempting to woo voters with fake insurance bonds.

Bengaluru: Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Wednesday said the Congress and the JD(S) had struck a deal for the Assembly elections to be held in the State. The agreement was done in Hyderabad, he said, a charge rejected outright by JD(S) leader H D Kumaraswamy.

New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party supremo and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday announced that his party will contest from all 224 assembly seats in the upcoming Karnataka elections.

Bengaluru: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will begin the party's nationwide 'Satyamev Jayate' agitation on April 5 from Kolar, the very place where he made a remark on the Modi surname for which he was convicted of criminal defamation and was stripped of his Parliament membership, party state president D K Shivakumar said on Wednesday.

The announcement of the dates for the Karnataka state assembly elections by the Central Election Commission has put the code of conduct into force. As part of the implementation of the code, the authorities have recovered two government cars from the residence of Chief Minister Basavaraja Bommai.

Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai said that the list of BJP candidates for the upcoming assembly elections is set to be released in the first week of April.