BJP government to be sworn in on May 28
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Monday, 26 May 2008 |
The first ever Bharatiya Janata Party government in the south will be sworn-in on May 28 with the party almost
getting a majority, party sources said in Bangalore.
B S Yeddyurappa will take oath as chief minister, the sources said but refused to share further details.
The party, which has won 111 seats, just two short of the magic figure 113 required for a simple majority, said it has the support of four independents out of the seven.
The sources declined to name the independents who would back the BJP government remarking "they are our rebels".
The election process ends by May 28 on the day the Election Commision was expected to notifiy the constitution of the 13th Legislative Assembly in Karnataka. |
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Monday, 26 May 2008 |
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has logged in, snatching a lion’s share of seats in elections to the Karnataka legislative assembly.
The party won 17 of the 28 seats in the state capital, elbowing the Congress to the second place with 10 seats. The Janata Dal (S) managed a single seat. |
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Bangalore: Despite BJP Win, Cong Vote Share Still Higher
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Monday, 26 May 2008 |
Congress may have Congressfinished a distant second to BJP in the Karnataka assembly elections, but it remains ahead of the saffron party in terms of vote share, though only just. An analysis of the detailed results available on the Election Commission’s website shows that Congress won 34.6% of the votes against BJP’s 33.9%.
While that represents a swing of about 0.7 percentage points away from Congress since the last assembly elections in 2004, it means BJP has picked up an additional 5.6% of votes compared with the 28.3% share it had four years back.
JD(S), which has got badly mauled with its tally dipping from 58 to 28, has not actually faced a huge negative swing in terms of vote share. Its share has dropped by less than two percentage points from 20.8% in 2004 to 19.1%.
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Protestors want Bangalore airport to stay
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Monday, 19 May 2008 |
 As Bangalore's good old HAL airport gets set to close, it is not the businessman, not the techie who stand to lose the most. The worst hit are the trolley retrievers, the taxi drivers and the support staff.
There are 90 trolley retrievers who stand to lose their jobs come May 23.
''We went and asked, they said no jobs. New people have already joined there,'' said a trolley retriever.
''Passengers ask for trolley whether in arrival or departure. Trolleys are important, we are not important,'' he added. |
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Monday, 19 May 2008 |
With the death of 17 more people in hospitals, the toll in the liquor tragedy in Karnataka and Tamil Nadu's Krishnagiri climbed to 44 on Monday.
The killer brew pushed up the toll in Karnataka to 35 as 16 more people died in Bangalore and Kolar.
While 12 were declared dead in two hospitals in Bangalore, four died in Kolar today, police said.
In Devrajeevanahalli in Bangalore city, illicit liquor has so far claimed 17 lives, police sources said here today. |
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