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Tag Archives: B.S. Yeddyurappa

Posted on 10 February 2010 by churumuri
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Yediyurappa regime slips into yet another sandal


At the 102nd birth anniversary celebrations of former chief minister Kengal Hanumanthaiah at the Vidhana Soudha in Bangalore on Wednesday, incumbent CM B.S. Yediyurappa leans on an aide to slip …

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Posted on 30 January 2010 by churumuri
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Dear God: Do the Reddy Brothers pray like me?


It doesn’t hurt to pray, goes the old saying, more so if you are the bruised and battered leader of God’s Own Party. Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yediyurappa, who, like …

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Posted on 27 January 2010 by churumuri
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As the Bard of Bellary didn’t say: Topi or not Topi


At the inauguration of the 500th anniversary of the coronation of Krishnadevaraya in Hampi on Wednesday, Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yediyurappa respectfully admires the crown adorning Union finance home minister …

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Posted on 11 January 2010 by churumuri
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When did 328 become greater than 1,00,000?


KIRAN RAO BATNI writes: It’s a pity our friends in the English media have become such baavi kappegal* that they assume that the English medium CBSE education system is equivalent …

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Posted on 9 January 2010 by churumuri
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Even four pairs of hands can’t stave off the flak


The new BJP president Nitin Gadkari apparently has a penchant for using tapori idiom like chatoogiri (sycophancy). Clearly, Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yediyurappa didn’t catch Gadkari saying so when he …

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Posted on 8 January 2010 by churumuri
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CHURUMURI POLL: Will Mittal Steel get the land?


After battling dissidence and other problems for the better part of 2009, Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yediyurappa has decided to take on 2010 head-onIn Delhi this week to attend the …

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Posted on 5 January 2010 by churumuri
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Pictures don’t lie. So doesn’t the Indian woman?


Justices J.M. Panchal and Deepak Sharma of the Supreme Court ruling that courts can have faith on the word of “any girl or woman” in the country who seeks justice …

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Posted on 28 December 2009 by churumuri
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CHURUMURI POLL: Should Nurse Renuka stay/go?


The Andhra Pradesh governor, Narain Dutt Tiwari, has been “ejected prematurely” from his post, in the imaginative words of one headline writer, after a TV station aired a sting operation …

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Posted on 29 November 2009 by churumuri
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Yediyurappa’s shocking bid to shield the Reddys


MATHIHALLI MADAN MOHAN writes from Hubli: It is now clear as crystal. Either the chief minister of Karnataka, B.S. Yediyurappa, is mortally afraid of annoying the Reddy brothers, lest it …

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Posted on 23 November 2009 by churumuri
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Who does the chief minister owe allegiance to?


Depending on who you would like to believe, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is either a noble, benign, cultural organisation of volunteers, straining every sinew to strengthen the moral and …

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Posted on 17 November 2009 by churumuri
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It’s true, political analysis = fortune telling


Astrologer Veenu Sandal on what the stars foretell for Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yediyurappa in M.J. Akbar‘s fortnightly magazine, Covert: “His stars indicate that his long experience of more than …

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Posted on 17 November 2009 by churumuri
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Why Jagadish Shettar’s film could be ‘Oye Lucky’


MATHIHALLI MADAN MOHAN writes from Hubli: Luck, more than anything, has played a major role in the ascendancy of Jagadish Shettar, who has resigned from the post of speaker of …

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Posted on 6 November 2009 by churumuri
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As Akbar asked, ‘Karnatak ka takht chahiye ya…?’


In The Telegraph, Calcutta, Radhika Ramaseshan invokes a line from Mughal-e-Azam to explain the Karnataka conundrum: “Anarkali” is ready to leave but the dissidents are still asking for “Salim’s” head. …

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Posted on 6 November 2009 by churumuri
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Actually, the subtext isn’t as silly as it may seem


M.K. VIDYARANYA writes from Bangalore: Is the Congress begining to fish in the troubled waters of the BJP, and is the Grand Old Party inclined to share power with the …

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Posted on 4 November 2009 by churumuri
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Those who live by the Reddys shall die by them


MATHIHALLI MADAN MOHAN writes from Hubli: If Karnataka Chief Minister, B.S. Yediyurappa, finds himself in the vortex of an ugly political row triggered off by the challenge to his leadership …

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Posted on 31 October 2009 by churumuri
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Uneasy rests the chair that mines the earth


Cartoon: courtesy Surendra/ The Hindu

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Posted on 29 October 2009 by churumuri
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CHURUMURI POLL: Will Yediyurappa survive?


Barely six months after bouncing off the runway, the BJP government of B.S. Yediyurappa has run into an air pocket once again, thanks to the peevish shenanigans of the Reddy …

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Posted on 26 October 2009 by churumuri
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Let the rebels know, CM will not bow one inch


On a day when seven BJP ministers were enconsced in yet another “secret meeting” in Bangalore, setting off the usual suspicions, chief minister B.S. Yediyurappa was going around inspecting “developmental …

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Posted on 25 October 2009 by churumuri
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Did Manchalamma take revenge on Mantralaya?


MATHIHALLI MADAN MOHAN writes from Hubli: It is three weeks since the pilgrim township of Mantralaya, the abode of Saint Raghvendraswamy Swamy on the Andhra-Karnataka border, suffered extensive devastation due …

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Posted on 22 October 2009 by churumuri
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How a chief minister should drink tea. (Or not?)


On the day his party was tasting defeat in three States, Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yediyurappa sips tea the old-fashioned (down market?) way in the company of the (more suave?) …

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Posted on 9 October 2009 by churumuri
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Don’t our cricketers have social responsibility?


B.S. NAGARAJ writes from New Delhi: Cricket’s ultra-pyjama version, Champions League T20 tournament, got off to a glitzy start on Thursday. Chaka Khan, Shaggy and Jameila, and not to forget …

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Posted on 5 October 2009 by churumuri
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Drought relief one day, flood relief the next day


One small step for the aam appa in Karnataka is one giant leap for chief minister B.S. Yediyurappa as he visits flood-affected Hirehalla near Koppal on Monday, as Koppal MLA …

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Posted on 3 October 2009 by churumuri
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Everybody’s hands are up for the photo cameras


P. Mahamud, the hard-hitting cartoonist of the Kannada daily Praja Vani, captures the week’s biggest events—the “prabhugalu” going through their yoga callisthenics in Suttur, and the “prajegalu” going through hell …

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Posted on 30 September 2009 by churumuri
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Survival of fittest is a great photo opportunity


In the run-up to the general elections, the “former future prime minister of India” pumped iron to the pop of the photo bulbs. At the chintan baithak of BJP ministers …

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Posted on 23 September 2009 by churumuri
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A sleepy town: now officially recognised by govt


It’s one thing for travel writers dipping into their thesauruses to blindly term Mysore “a sleepy town” or “a pensioner’s paradise”. But what when the government officially believes that all …

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