Karnataka Assembly polls 2013: Sons of Kharge, Dharam Singh get Congress ticket, Karnataka Assembly Election 2013, Karnataka Latest Political News Update, Karnataka Election Update.

Bangalore: 14 April 2013

Sons of senior Congress leaders M Mallikarjuna Kharge and N Dharam Singh were given tickets to contest the May five assembly elections in Karnataka in the second list of 40 candidates announced by the party on Sunday.

However, Micro, Medium and Small Enterprise (MSME) Minister K H Muniyappa failed to get ticket for his daughter Roopa Shashidhar from Kolar Gold Fields constituency, where the party has now fielded Shankar V.

Priyank Kharge and Ajay Singh would contest from Chittapur and Jewargi, respectively. The party has also decided to give "B' form to independents D Sudhakar (Hiriyur) and P M Narendraswamy (Malavalli), ignoring protests by some local party leaders in those constituencies.

Rajya Sabha member Anil Lad would contest from Bellary city, while senior leader Shamanur Shivashankarappa would enter the fray from Davangere South. C S Putte Gowda, who recently crossed over to the Congress, has been given ticket to contest from Shravanabelagola, from where he had won in the 2008 elections on JDS symbol.

Senior Congress leader B K Hariprasad's brother B K Shivaram, a former senior Police official, has been given ticket for Malleshwaram seat, while Tejaswini Gowda would contest from Bangalore South.

Chamrajpet seat in the city has been given to G A Bava, a former Police official and a close follower of Oil Minister M Veerappa Moily.

According to party sources, the latest list suggested that the party has given tickets to some of those who are believed to have cross-voted during elections to the Legislative Council from the Assembly last year.

The Congress had announced its first list of 177 candidates on April five. With another 40 names cleared today, the party now needs to name nominees in the remaining seven segments which, sources said, continued to be bone of contention among leaders.

Elections would be held for 224 Assembly seats. The last date for filing nominations is April 17.

source:http://zeenews.india.com/

Bengaluru:

A monthly pension of Rs 500 for all farmers over 65 years and loan at 1% for women, is among the sops on offer in the manifesto of ex-Karnataka CM BS Yeddyurappa's newly-formed Karnataka Janata Party (KJP).

Apart from offering a waiver of loans of up to Rs one lakh for farmers, weavers and fishermen, BSY has gone the whole hog in terms of placating religious vote-banks in the state.

After allocating Rs 2,000 crore for Muslims, his party manifesto also promises to provide basic amenities and self-employment opportunities for them.

Christians would get a budget allocation of Rs 250 crore in the budget for their development.

A law would be enacted for protection of women, with non-bailable cases booked against the culprits, the manifesto released here recently said.

“Potable drinking water will be supplied and toilets built in all villages of the state. All pending irrigation projects will be completed within five years. 5,000 MW will be generated to completely remove power shortage and help agriculture and industrial sector,” Yeddyurappa said at the launch of his party manifesto here.

KJP has also proposed to extend ‘Bhagyalakshmi’ (insurance for a girl child) and ‘Sandhya Suraksha’ (pension) schemes to middle-class families.

Besides, a capital investment of Rs 1 lakh each would be given to the 1.75 lakh self help women groups besides providing them with training and work sheds to produce different varieties of products.

A capital investment of Rs 1 lakh each would be given to the 1.75 lakh self help women groups besides providing them necessary training and work sheds to produce different varieties of useful products.

The government will also take responsibility of marketing materials produced by them.

A women cooperative bank would be established involving all these self-help groups and women engaged in self-employment.

The government will release Rs 2,000 crore to this bank and loan at the rate of one per cent interest would be advanced to women.

Yeddyurappa’s stronghold in Karnataka is the Lingayat community from which he hails.

But this being his party KJP’s debut election, he has tried to address every major requirement of farmers, women and minorities in his party’s manifesto.

It only remains to be seen what effect his promises have on the Karnataka voter.

 source:http://zeenews.india.com

Hubli:

Ahead of the Karnataka Assembly Elections, state Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar expressed hope that he would grab the top seat once again.

Calling himself as an ‘honest’ politician at a programme here, Shettar underlined the development works he carried out during his short tenure as the CM.

“Within eight months I have completed (all) works, which other chief ministers would have taken five years to do,” Shettar said. “Though the Opposition leaders ridiculed that my tenure would end within two months, 12 legislators resigned their membership and some people were against my presenting the state budget, I have completed nine months in power.”

He further urged people to elect him to the Assembly for the fifth time.

Listing major development works he undertook during his tenure, Shettar said he did the impossible by bringing Rs 1,600 crore for the development of the twin-city. Also, he mentioned 24-hour drinking water project, park development, drainage system, four-lane road and airport development as some of the major works in the city during his stint as the CM.

source:http://zeenews.india.com

Bangalore:

In the battle for Karnataka, a lot is playing out on the social media, especially Twitter. The Bharatiya Janata Party, the Congress and BS Yeddyurappa's Karnataka Janata Paksha have all joined the bandwagon. The question is whether the Election Commission will be able to regulate online campaigns.

Sanjay Gowdar Sidappa leads the team of silent warriors for Yeddyurappa's KJP. He is a part of the social media strategy cell that puts its skills to use to take on other political parties ahead of the elections. "More than employment, hundreds of people have voluntarily come forward and they have been putting in hours together," Sanjay said.

Taking a cue from Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's successful social media campaign in Gujarat, the BJP's Karnataka wing is tweeting away. With around 6,000 followers so far, the party is hoping the votes on the ground at least exceed that figure.

BJP spokesperson S Prakash said, "Twitter and social media are a forum where you can generate public opinion, interact and present facts to the people. At present, strict vision by the EC where it prohibits spending money, the social media comes handy."

The Congress has also jumped on board the social media wagon organising Google Hangouts with its leaders in Karnataka to showcase the party's ability to speak the language of the youth. Regional parties like the JD(S) too are looking to break away from their rural image and showcase their virtual skills.

On its part, the Election Commission has put in place a ban on any kind of campaign 48 hours prior to the elections.

But with a flood of Twitter and Facebook messages already out on cyberspace, how effectively will the election watchdog be able to curb the social media campaign wars?

source:http://ibnlive.in.com