BS Yeddyurappa met Governor Vala to stake claim to form the government, and requested him to administer oath of office and secrecy on the same day. State BJP President BS Yeddyurappa Fon July 26 said he will be sworn in as the Chief Minister of Karnataka by Governor Vajubhai Vala at 6 pm. “I have requested Governor to administer me oath between 6-6.15 pm as the Chief Minister, the Governor has agreed and given me a letter,” Yeddyurappa told reporters after meeting the Governor at Raj Bhavan here. Stating thatRead More

The growing popularity of the slogan in Bengal has been simultaneous to BJP’s rise in the state in recent years. KOLKATA: ‘Jai Shri Ram’ or victory to Lord Ram — a religious chant to hail one of the most popular gods in Hinduism has become a rallying cry and a tool of Hindu mobilisation for the BJP across the country as well as in Bengal where the saffron party has gained massive political prominence in the last few years. Though hailing and worshiping of Lord Ram, a Hindu deity andRead More

Karnataka :Minutes after meeting Governor Vajubhai Vala to stake claim to form government, senior BJP leader BS Yeddyurappa, while addressing the media, said that he will take oath as chief minister around 6pm today. Reacting to the development, former CM Siddaramaiah said that Karnataka assembly had become an experimental lab for the BJP. He asked how could a governor allow a party without majority to form government. Yeddyurappa met Vala a day after Karnataka Assembly speaker KR Ramesh Kumar disqualified three rebel Congress MLAs under the anti-defection law. “I willRead More

Vijay Goel said that lakhs of home buyers had invested their hard-earned money in booking flats. But the greedy builders had cheated them. New Delhi: BJP MP Vijay Goel on Thursday demanded death penalty to the builders who cheat gullible home buyers of their hard-earned money as he said “the crime is no less than rape”. Raising the issue in the Rajya Sabha during Zero Hour, he talked about the woes of lakhs of homebuyers in the Delhi-NCR region who have been cheated by fraudulent builders. Stating that the fraudRead More

Karnataka LIVE: Two days after the HD Kumaraswamy government lost the trust vote, the BJP is yet to stake claim to form the government, with the state unit looking to the central leadership for its go-ahead. The BJP showed no hurry to stake claim to form the next government as the number game may not be done with both the resignations of rebel Congress and JDS MLAs and the pleas for their disqualification still pending with Assembly Speaker KR Ramesh Kumar. The 14-month old Congress-JDS government collapsed on Tuesday afterRead More