Karnataka polls: EC seizes Rs 1 crore ahead of Assembly elections
April 02, 2018 21:43 ISThe model code came into force on March 27 when the poll panel announced the polls for 224 Assembly seats and the vote count on May 15.
he model code came into force on March 27 when the poll panel announced the polls for 224 Assembly seats and the vote count on May 15.
Guttedar will join the BJP in the presence of party national president Amit Shah during his visit to Mysuruon March 30 and 31.
Rawat pointed out that the utilisation of social media cannot be stopped due to instances of “aberrations”.
The term of the current 224-member legislative Assembly ends on May 28.
'Social media managers' of both BJP and Congress tweeted the poll dates for Karnataka Assembly elections moments before the announcement by the Election Commission.
"I want to assure farmers of Karnataka that we will work for the interests of the farmers in the state," he said.
Addressing a press conference, Chief Election Commissioner OP Rawat said the model code of conduct has come into force with the announcement of this schedule.
The Election Commission announced that the elections in the state will be held in single phase.
The "countdown" for the Congress party had begun as the people were choosing Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "politics of development" and were keen on making India Congress-free, the BJP leader said.
Gandhi is on the second leg of his three-day tour of northern parts of Karnataka. This is his second visit to the state in less than a fortnight.
PM Modi, who was addressing a BJP organised public meeting here, referred to the regimes of Jawaharlal Nehru, his daughter Indira Gandhi and her son Rajiv Gandhi without naming them.
"It's Prime Minister Narendra Modi who runs a '90 per cent commission sarkar' in Delhi. He should prove the charge that our government takes 10 per cent commission," Siddaramaiah said.
BJP President Amit Shah today said there was public anger against the ruling Congress in Karnataka and asked party workers to make sure that the victory march of Narendra Modi enters the South through the state.
With months left in high-stake Karnataka Assembly polls, the war of words between Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and his competition Yeddyurappa is taking Twitter by storm.
Modi said he had earlier called his administration a "10 per cent commission government" but later came to know his information was not correct and that the cut the government got was much more.
The final electoral rolls from the 224 assembly constituencies of the state are scheduled to be released on February 28.
Rahul Gandhi on Sunday asked PM Modi to stop giving speeches on the past and start working, saying he did not have much time before completing his term.
Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Saturday said the upcoming Assembly polls in the state would be a battle between two ideologies - communalism and secularism.
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