Tag: Karnataka bypolls

Karnataka: Supreme Court upholds disqualification of 17 rebel MLAs, can contest bypolls.

Source – indiatoday.in The Supreme Court (SC) on Wednesday upheld an order by former Karnataka Assembly Speaker K R Ramesh Kumar disqualifying 17 Karnataka MLAs in July. Though the top court upheld the disqualification of the MLAs from Congress and JD(S), the term of the disqualification was struck down. The order, therefore, allows all the

No alliance with Congress, BJP for Karnataka bypolls, both not trustworthy: Deve Gowda.

Source – indiatoday.in Janata Dal (Secular) president HD Deve Gowda has dismissed any possibility of having an electoral tie-up with either the Congress or the BJP for December 5 bypolls in Karnataka, describing both the national parties as “not trustworthy” and having the “same character”. In an interview to PTI on Tuesday, the former prime