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Congress president Rahul Gandhi was in Haveri, Karnataka, to address an election gathering. While the attendance was bad, Rahul touched upon the same old issues of no jobs, etc. BJP, on its part, dismissed the speech as ‘garland of lies’.

An online campaign mocking the JD(S) decision to field Nikhil Kumaraswamy has been started, equating the Gowda family to a cricket team. Infuriated at this campaign, HD Kumaraswamy has ordered the intelligence department to find out the brains behind it.

Training his guns at Mallikarjun Kharge, the leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha, rebel Congress MLA Umesh Jadhav, who joined the BJP, has said Kalaburagi Congress is a ‘Private Limited’

The Union Cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi decided to restore the 200-point roster for reservation in teaching jobs in higher education, taking college or university as a unit for reservation

 Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front chairman Yasin Malik was named as the main accused in the kidnapping of former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mufti Mohd Sayeed’s daughter Dr Rubiya Sayeed,  killing of five Air Force personnel in Srinagar in 1990, killing Justice Neelkanth Ganju and former director, Doordarshan Kendra in Srinagar, Lassa Kaul

The decision to blood HD Kumaraswamy’s son Nikhil Kumaraswamy from Mandya has given rise to a lot of rebellion within the party circles. Several youngsters have questioned the top honchos of the party as to why Nikhil was chosen, when there are other worthy candidates
 

Charges of nepotism against leader of opposition Mallikarjun Kharge are now out in the open. With Umesh Jadhav quitting Congress, Mallikarjun Kharge, the seasoned politician that he is, will find it hard to fight  it all alone

The issue of Sumalatha, widow of cine actor Ambareesh, contesting from Mandya has been giving sleepless nights to many. While JD(S) sees it as a threat, Congress wants to stay away from it as Mandya is a stronghold of the JD(S).

Chincholi Congress MLA Umesh Jadhav formally quit the party as he tendered his resignation to the Karnataka Assembly Speaker Ramesh Kumar. Though the Congress dismissed it as a foregone conclusion, the void created is huge as it may prod other disgruntled members to walk the same path

The coordination committee comprising of bigwigs from the JD(S) and Congress met to finalise the seat-sharing formula in Karnataka for the Lok Sabha polls 2019. But the parties have failed to arrive at a consensus, with neither the JD(S) nor the Congress happy with the seats being offered

The award for Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman was announced in New Delhi by the Akhil Bharatiya Digambar Jain Mahasamiti chairperson Manidra Jain

Plans of Karnataka chief minister HD Kumaraswamy blooding his son Nikhil from Mandya may be a reality as supporters from the region want someone from the Gowda family to continue

Two senior Congress MLAs, Umesh Jadhav from Chincholi and Nagendra from Ballari Rural may join the BJP. With the Lok Sabha elections less than two months away, this move could come as a jolt for the Congress

 

As reported in the media, cricketer-turned-politician Mohammad Azharuddin will not be contesting from Hyderabad. When MyNation spoke to him, he denied the claims outright