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 …
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 …
Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yediyurappa, and his cabinet colleagues (from left) Suresh Kumar, Vishveshwar Hegde Kageri and K.S. Eshwarappa are all smiles for the cameras at the BJP’s state core …
Ajay Sukumaran in The Telegraph, Calcutta: “The man who performed the Herculean feat of getting the BJP to power in the south is now carrying out, like the Greek hero, …
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 …
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 …
MATHIHALLI MADAN MOHAN writes from Hubli: The manner in which the BJP high command moved to sort out the three-week-long political imbroglio within the ruling party in Karnataka, has exposed …
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: The political imbroglio involving Yeddy (single) and Reddy (triple), which looked like a mathematical indeterminate just a few days ago, has been solved. After all. This is …
Editorial in The Indian Express on the BJP crisis in Karnataka: “The compromise formula — a minister exiting, officials replaced — may have bought the Karnataka wing of the BJP …
On a day when Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yediyurappa made a triumphant return to Bangalore, after feeding the Reddy brothers sweets in the august presence of the “former future prime …
Editorial in The Hindu on the crisis in the BJP in Karnataka: “An inglorious capitulation by the central leadership of the Bharatiya Janata Party to political blackmail by a mining …
Workers of H.D. Deve Gowda‘s Janata Dal (Secular), a party which like the Congress has taken grassroots politics to five-star spas, perform a mock funeral of the Bharatiya Janata Party …
All that needs to be said about the ongoing political tamasha in Karnataka has been said. That B.S. Yediyurappa had it coming. That the Reddy Brothers weren’t helping him all …
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. …
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 …
M.K. VIDYARANYA writes from Bangalore: The “Operation Kamala” launched by the BJP with the monetary support of the cash-surplus mining lobby headed by the Reddy Brothers has turned out to …
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 …
Cartoon: courtesy Surendra/ The Hindu
A day after a cabinet colleague with a Reddy surname reminded him of the Krishna and Kamsa story, Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yediyurappa leaves the Vidhana Soudha after a meeting …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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?) …
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 …
PALINI R. SWAMY writes from Bangalore: The floods in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh have ravaged the lives, lands and houses of hundreds of thousands of people, and brought misery in …
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 …