Interestingly, polling in the state was slightly higher than the last elections till the afternoon, with 37.3 per cent against 36.8 per cent in 2019 by 1 pm, but it came down substantially and the graph never went up after that.
utting an end to the speculations of him being fielded for the LS polls, Bali expressed keenness to work in his Assembly constituency, which had also been the constituency of his late father G S Bali, a four-time MLA and a former minister.
Speaking to The Statesman in an exclusive interview, the BJP spokesperson said his party has been responsible to take 25 crore people of the country out of poverty.
A day after BRS chief K Chandrasekhar Rao claimed that 20 Congress MLAs were ready to quit the party and join him, his party MLA Prakash Goud from Rajendranagar met Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy.
Prominent leaders of North East who are in the electoral fray in the first phase of polls -- from Union Minister Kiren Rijiju to Congress leader Gaurav Gogoi -- exercised their franchise early in the morning on Friday.
Amid the Congress' crowdfunding campaign, the Bharatiya Janata Partyon Friday launched an attack on Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and state minister Zameer Ahmed Khan saying that at a time when their party is asking for donations, the two leaders are travelling in a 'private jet'.
The Union home minister Amit Shah will be arriving in city on Sunday night, hardly one month after he attended the BJP rally held in front of the Victoria House at Esplanade on 29 November.
Gowda was accompanied by his son and JD(S) Karnataka chief H D Kumaraswamy and senior party leader H D Revanna.
BSP supremo Mayawati on Thursday condemned the suspension of opposition MPs from Parliament as well as the mimicry incident involving Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar.
A storm is brewing in Indian politics and the epicentre is the recently united INDIA bloc.
