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Saturday, January 3, 2026
TopicKarnataka Assembly elections

Topic: Karnataka Assembly elections

‘Humiliated, treated as use & throw’: Denied ticket, former Karnataka CM Shettar quits BJP

Shettar says senior BJP leaders offered him Rajya Sabha seat, Union Cabinet berth but could not explain why party chose to deny him a ticket.

Opposition’s comeback album: ‘Didi, oh, Didi’. And Where’s Waldo? Certainly not in Punjab

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

‘Not parivarwaad’? BJP faces heat as ‘34 dynasts’ fielded in Karnataka, rule bent to give 4 families 2 tickets each

Congress has lashed out at BJP for seemingly violating its own policy against ‘dynastic politics’. BJP says it defines a dynasty differently.

As row over its Karnataka foray rages on, Amul likely to set up 1st international plant in Sri Lanka

Government-level talks are on and a team of senior members from the Gujarat-based dairy cooperative visited Sri Lanka twice this year, it is learnt. 

Denied ticket, former Karnataka deputy CM Laxman Savadi quits BJP, joins Congress

On 12 April, Savadi resigned as Legislative Council member and from BJP’s primary membership after the party reportedly asked him to make way for newcomers.

Turncoats, some new faces, dynasty: Decoding BJP Karnataka list that has incensed many leaders

Hailed by BJP as a ‘game-changer’, the list of 189 names has been criticised by many members, including former CM Shettar. Party says it has explained to leaders why they were replaced.  

‘Won’t beg:’ Denied ticket, Karnataka’s former BJP deputy CM Laxman Savadi quits party

The BJP released its first list of 189 candidates for the May assembly polls on Tuesday night.

On Camera

Indian bureaucracy should be given incentives and rewards: MH Mody

Is there a place for a counter-bureaucracy, or a separate and competing bureaucracy to counterbalance the force of the executive’s bureaucracy, asked author MH Mody in 1980.

India’s urban co-op banks are turning the page—crisis to cautious revival, one metric at a time

With bad loans shrinking & capital buffers stronger, urban co-op banks’ new umbrella body NUCFDC is now prioritising rollout of digital transformation.

Greece looking at TATA’s WhAP infantry combat vehicle for army procurement

If deal goes through, Greece will be 2nd foreign country to procure vehicle. Morocco was first; TATA Group has set up manufacturing unit there with minimum 30 percent indigenous content.

A year-end Mea Culpa in National Interest—The Army-Islam combo doesn’t kill democracy

Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.