Stakes are high for the Rahul Gandhi-led Congress as Karnataka is one of the few states where the party is in power. Also, Siddaramaiah is the first chief minister in the state to complete a five-year tenure.
Rs 9 crore cash seized from a car ahead of Karnataka polls.
I challenge you (Rahul Gandhi) to speak for 15 minutes on the achievements of your government in Karnataka without reading from any piece of paper. You can speak in Hindi, English or your mother tongue: PM Modi
Modi, who last visited Karnataka for campaigning in February, will be addressing rallies at Santhemarahalli in Chamarajanagara district, and Udupi and Chikkodi in Belagavi today.
Karnataka will go to polls on May 12 to elect its representatives for the 225-member assembly. The results will be out on May 15.
PM Modi is expected to visit each of the state's four regions -- coastal, north, central and south -- besides Bengaluru and Mysuru, addressing two-to-three rallies a day till May 10.
Senior Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge indicated that despite Siddaramaiah leading the party's poll campaign in the state, he may not be retained on the post. The Congress is yet to officially name Siddaramaiah as its CM candidate.
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On April 3, the Congress president would meet people at Bus Stand Chowk and address a public gathering in Shivamogga. He will then visit Honnalli, Harihara and Bathi towns in Davangere district.
In its petition to the poll panel, the party said that Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders -- including Shah, Yeddyurappa, Ananth Kumar and Pratap Simha -- visited the residence of a person killed around a year-and-a-half ago and.
Shah today began his tour of the old Mysuru region, covering the districts of Mysuru, Chamarajanagara, Mandya and Ramanagara, where BJP had not won even a single seat in the previous election.
Shah had said, addressing the media, "A Supreme Court retired judge has said that if a comparison is made on corruption, then the Yeddyurappa government would get the number one award."
Rawat pointed out that the utilisation of social media cannot be stopped due to instances of “aberrations”.
"There is no anti-incumbency in the state. "That's why we are confident and we will come back," the Karnataka chief minister said.
Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, All India Congress Committee General Secretary in-charge of Karnataka K.C. Venugopal and state unit chief G. Parameshwara are the ex-officio members of the committee.
PM Modi wooed thousands of farmers by promising them "acche din" (good days) if his party is voted to power in the upcoming assembly polls and attacked the ruling Congress government for failing to serve the people.
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.
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.
During his three-day second leg of canvassing , Gandhi will cover Belgaum, Vijayapura (Bijapur), Bagalkot and Dharwad districts from the Mumbai-Karnataka region of the state.
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