JDS Supremo H D Deve Gowda on Friday greeted Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa for his party's landslide victory in the island nation's parliamentary elections
HD Deve Gowda threatened to launch a statewide agitation if the BJP government did not withdraw the amendments to the Karnataka Land Reforms Act forthwith
These amendments are retrograde, anti-farmer and anti-labour, the former Prime Minister alleged
Both Kharge and Gowda were defeated in the 2019 Lok Sabha election from Gulbarga and Tumkur parliamentary constituencies respectively
Eranna Bhimappa Kadadi and Ashok Jasti - one Lingayat and one from the OBC - were named as the BJP's candidates for the upper house leaving the state unit stunned
Election is scheduled on June 19 to fill four Rajya Sabha seats from Karnataka
Nikhil, son of former Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy, tied the nuptial knot with Revathi, the grand-niece of former Karnataka housing minister M Krishnappa
Stalwarts like Deve Gowda, veteran Congress leaders like Kharge, K H Muniyappa and Veerappa Moily tasted defeat
The former prime minister said JD(S) would contest the bypolls to fill 15 vacancies in Karnataka Assembly alone and 'certainly maintain equidistance' from the Congress and the BJP
The Chief Minister would be traveling to Delhi on Sunday to pay his last respect to the departed
The stunning claims made by Gowda come at a time when Congress-JD(S) coalition is going through a rough patch following its poor show in the general elections
Gowda is in Delhi to attend the meeting of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Defence
The budget session of the state Assembly is scheduled to commence on July 5
Their only object is survival and not service of the nation, Jaitley said
Gowda's remarks came on a day the Uttara Karnataka Pratyeka Rajya Horata Samiti, a committee fighting for a separate statehood to north Karnataka, called a day-long bandh in 13 districts
Banerjee is a bitter critic of the NRC and has pilloried the BJP over the citizenship issue. She is also seeking the support of other opposition parties to take on the ruling party
Expressing hope that BJP would win the elections, Gowda said the party's intention was development of Telangana
"Some development will take place before Parliament election (and) some will take place after the election is over," he said
Thousands of farmers from across the country, who have been camping at the Ramlila ground in Delhi since Thursday, began their march to Parliament Street on Friday
'The formula for opposition unity is that we all will contest as far as possible as part of pre-poll alliances, but state-specific alliances', says Kunwar Danish Ali