Sharmila’s meeting with Karnataka Congress chief sets off speculations
Speculation is rife in political circles that YSRTP is keen on an alliance or a merger with the Congress ahead of Assembly elections in Telangana.
Speculation is rife in political circles that YSRTP is keen on an alliance or a merger with the Congress ahead of Assembly elections in Telangana.
Kharge is also expected to hold a meeting with Siddaramaiah and DK Shivakumar who are frontrunners for the chief minister's post.
The early trends for Karnataka assembly election results showed Congress crossing the halfway mark, and Siddaramaiah leading from the Varuna constituency.
Karnataka Congress chief D.K. Shivakumar said on Tuesday that with former Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar and ex-Deputy CM Lakshman Savadi joining, the party would win 150 seats in the upcoming Assembly elections.
Experts say that Kharge had come very close to becoming the CM in Karnataka thrice in 1999, 2004 and 2013, but narrowly missed the opportunity
The BJP has won Yellapur and Chikkaballapur seats and is leading in 10 seats, while the Congress is ahead in 2 seats and an Independent leading in one seat.
In the audio, Karnataka CM is purportedly saying that the rebel Congress JD(S) MLAs, who were later disqualified, were kept in Mumbai during the final days of the coalition government under BJP national President Amit Shah's watch.
Enforcement Directorate (ED) had arrested the former Karnataka minister on September 3.
Hundreds of party cadres and supporters of Shivakumar staged angry protests and blocked the vehicular traffic on the busy Bengaluru-Mysuru state highway condemning the arrest.
Shivakumar has been on the radar of the Income Tax Department and the ED since demonetisation in 2016 when an Income Tax search at his Delhi flat led to the seizure of unaccounted cash worth Rs 8.59 crore.