Leader of Opposition in the Karnataka Assembly, Siddaramaiah is confident that the BJP government will fall, whether chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa resigns or not.
Speaking to the media here on Monday, Mr Siddaramaiah said the sheer volume and weight of the allegations would make the government collapse, even if Mr

The majority of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) members of Parliament seem to have rallied behind chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa.
At a meeting held at Karnataka Bhavan here on Monday, several MPs felt that Mr Yeddyurappa should continue at least till the elections to panchayati raj bodies which are due in late December.

Amid strong indications that BJP president Nitin Gadkari had given marching orders to Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa, his arch-rival, JD(S) leader H.D.

The battle between Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa and his detractors — within the BJP and in the Opposition — has shifted to the national capital with the chief minister reportedly rushing ministers close to him to New Delhi to make a spirited defence before the party’s central leaders.

After embarrassing chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa for allotting Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) and Karnataka Industrial Area Development Board (KIADB) sites to his kith and kin, Janata Dal (S) state president H.D. Kumaraswamy came out with yet another revelation on Saturday.

A combative Karnataka chief minister B.S.

In further proof of the involvement of Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa’s family in ill-advised land acquisitions and evidence that the nepotism includes both family and friends, it has come to light that more land was denotified — 10 acres worth `170 crore in a prime Bengaluru location — was denotified in favour of BJP party MLA Hemachandra Sagar and the CM’s sons. Another 3.5 acres in Hebbal, belonging to a city hotelier, was also denotified in similar fashion. The hotelier, Prakash

The JD (S) made a fresh charge against chief minister B.S.

Fresh documents with this newspaper indicate successive CMs misused discretionary powers to acquire prime land, ignoring the rulebook. One set of documents shows how Mr B.S. Yeddyurappa allotted nine plots in prime locations worth `20 crores to his sister and his astrologer Lakshman Pooj-ari.

A clearly rattled BJP, particularly party president Nitin Gadkari, has dispatched a team of RSS officials to Karnataka to assess the damage caused by land scams to the image of the BJP’s first government in South India, even as a beleaguered chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa tried to limit the fallout of the recent leaks by announcing he would appoint a retired judge of the Supreme Court to investigate the charges that have originated from within his own party as well as the increasingly bellicose Janata Dal (S).