Karnataka Election  

Election Commission has agreed to defer bypolls to 15 Assembly seats in Karnataka. 

The Election Commission has informed the Supreme Court that the 17 disqualified MLAs can be given a chance to contest the by-poll to be held  on October 21. 

Following the resignation of Karnataka Speaker Ramesh Kumar, deputy Speaker Krishna Reddy announced that election to the post will be held on July 31. Here is the list of probable candidates

 
 

BJP has won 25 seats and except for two seats (one each for Congress and the JDS), the coalition has failed miserably in Karnataka 
 

At a time when there's trouble brewing in the JDS-Congress coalition, Karnataka sees a saffron wave. BJP state president BS Yeddyurappa has said that he doesn't demand Kumaraswamy's resignation as CM.
 

 Raghavan told media that he is happy that the Kozhikode people stood with him during a difficult time. Raghavan is the present MP of Kozhikode. The other candidates from Kozhikode are A Pradeep Kumar from CPI(M) and KP Prakash Babu from BJP.

In Bengaluru Central, actor Prakash Raj has managed to get only 23,183 votes. He even walked out of the counting centre even before the counting was half way through.
 

Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge won the last Lok Sabha election against BJP's Revu Naik Belamagi and has also won the assembly election 10 times. This time, he faces his former colleague and now arch-rival Umesh Jadhav of the BJP
 

In the 2019 Lok Sabha election, Tejasvi Surya of BJP has been pitted against Congress's BK Hariprasad in Bengaluru South constituency. The constituency sees a newcomer for the BJP after five terms due to the demise of Ananth Kumar.
 

Counting of postal ballots will start at 8 am, following which EVMs will be taken into account. But the announcement of results will begin at 3 pm in Karnataka, said the Election Commission.

With just a couple of days left for the announcement of the Lok Sabha election, Karnataka chief minister has consistently been in the news for one reason or another. In the latest news, Kumaraswamy admitted that he was forced to field his son from Mandya constituency.

BJP may capture one to three seats in Telangana and one seat in Kerala. However, the party finds no presence in the other states of the south. But, the party is all set to paint Karnataka saffron

Congress leaders Siddaramaiah and Umashri stooped low in their endeavour to criticise BJP leaders. While one wondered if BJP leaders would wear sarees, the other termed BS Yeddyurappa ‘three-day sultan’.

Apart from a control unit, ballot unit and VVPAT for each polling station, the Election Commission has also arranged for 43 additional control units, 44 ballot units and 157 VVPATs, to prevent any disruption during election.

Days after the founder of Postcard News Mahesh Vikram Hegde was arrested in the fake letter row relating to Karnataka home minister MB Patil, another journalist SA Hemanth Kumar has been held for questioning in the same issue. However, the BJP claims that the chief minister and the home minister are resorting to vindictiveness and vendetta, and are using the police machinery to suit their whims and fancies.