Deve Gowda to accept Kumaraswamy's resignation in JDSLP meet

Birur, Aug 25: The JDS, in its next week Legislature Party meeting, has decided to formally accept the resignation of H D Kumaraswamy as the party chief in Karnataka in the backdrop of its loss in recent by-elections to two Lok Sabha seats in the state.

"The resignation of Kumaraswamy will be formally accepted in the JDS Legislature Party meeting convened on August 29. The meeting will also decide on the new party chief," party supremo and Kumaraswamy's father H D Deve Gowda told reporters here.

Shocked by the ruling Congress humbling JDS in its strongholds of Mandya and Mysore constituencies, Kumaraswamy yesterday announced he was resigning as state party chief and was also thinking of quitting as the Leader of the Opposition in the Assembly.

Congress' D K Suresh defeated JDS' Anita Kumaraswamy, wife of Kumaraswamy, in Bangalore Rural Lok Sabha constituency by over 1,26,000 votes and in Mandya, actor Ramya of Congress beat C S Puttaraju of the JD-S by nearly 70,000 votes.

The JDS meeting will also discuss on Kumaraswamy's continuance as Opposition Leader in the Assembly, Gowda said.

Gowda said he was against the tie up with BJP for by-elections to Mandya and Bangalore Rural parliamentary seats, but went ahead after some leaders aired their views.

The former Prime Minister said he was not 'unduly' perturbed with the results of the by-election and will continue to make strong efforts to strengthen the party in the state ahead of the 2014 Lok Sabha polls.

Comments

Add new comment

Coastaldigest.com reserves the right to delete or block any comments.
Coastaldigset.com is not responsible for its readers’ comments.
Comments that are abusive, incendiary or irrelevant are strictly prohibited.
Please use a genuine email ID and provide your name to avoid reject.

DK-Udupi local authorities' constituency by-poll: 4 candidates – Cong, BJP, SDPI, Ind – in fray

News Network

October 8,2024

Mangaluru: The by-election to the legislative council from the Dakshina Kannada and Udupi local authorities' constituency will be a contest among four candidates. An independent candidate, Muhammed Riyaz, has withdrawn his nomination on Monday, the last day for withdrawal.

Deputy commissioner Mullai Muhilan MP stated that candidates Kishore BR (BJP), Raju Poojary (Congress), Anwar Sadat S (SDPI), and Dinakar Ullal (independent) will be in the fray.

Polling will be held at 392 booths in Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts between 8am and 4pm on Oct 21.

A total of 6,032 voters from Dakshina Kannada and Udupi are eligible to vote. While there will be 234 polling booths in Dakshina Kannada, Udupi will have 158 stations. Gram panchayat members, corporators of the Mangaluru City Corporation, members of city municipal councils, town municipal councils, town panchayats, MLAs, MLCs, and Lok Sabha members are eligible to vote.

Election observer of the Election Commission of India (ECI), Pankaj Kumar Pandey, reviewed the poll preparations at the deputy commissioner's office on Monday. He issued directions to officials regarding arrangements to be made during the election and counting of votes.

The deputy commissioner stated that out of 6,032 voters, 3,127 are women and 2,905 are men. He said the counting of votes will be held at St Aloysius PU College in the city on Oct 24.

Udupi deputy commissioner Vidya Kumari K, city police commissioner Anupam Agrawal, Dakshina Kannada ZP CEO Anandh K, Dakshina Kannada SP Yathish N, Udupi SP Arun K, and additional deputy commissioners Santhosh Kumar G and Mamatha Devi were present.

Comments