Sudhakar was among the 14 Congress MLAs who defected to the BJP in 2019, helping the saffron party to wrest power from the JD(S)-Congress coalition govt.
Shivakumar & Siddaramaiah, both of whom have claimed credit for Congress's win in state, are in Delhi to meet party high command. The 2 leaders have refused any proposal of power sharing.
Despite Congress' clear mandate in the Karnataka assembly polls, suspense over the state chief minister continues. Senior leaders DK Shivakumar and Siddaramaiah are in the race.
Secret ballot was held late Sunday night to get opinions of MLAs for deciding the next CM. Lingayat seers are demanding their own candidate other than Siddaramaiah & Shivakumar.
After Congress' win in the state Saturday, Siddaramaiah supporters put up a poster calling him as 'the next CM' while Shivakumar posters stated 'Birthday greetings to the new Chief Minister'.
Special arrangements are being made to shift MLAs to remote areas in Bengaluru and observers have been appointed to do this exercise, party sources said.
India must reduce its overdependence on the US by cultivating alternative markets—concluding the EU FTA, advancing the UK deal, and exploring entry into the CPTPP, the open, rules-based bloc of Japan, Korea, and Australia.
As India-Russia trade decreases, India's April-July exports to the US this year increased by 21% compared to last year & imports from the US grew by 12%.
New Delhi: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi Tuesday pushed for a “dual-track” progress for ties with India, separating economic ties from the boundary question,...
Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?
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