With the Ananth Kumar-Jagadish Shettar camp refusing to back down over demands for the posts of two deputy chief ministers as well as 18-22 portfolios including finance, the BJP government under its new chief minister D V Sadananda Gowda continued to be in crisis.
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President Pratibha Patil on Saturday expressed concern over increasing cost of litigation and asked the lawyers fraternity to fully support free legal services via Legal Aid Cells to the poor.

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If former chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa had his way, six ministers would have joined the new cabinet but the rival camp led by Jagadish Shettar reportedly said ‘thanks, but no, thanks’ to the offer

Interesting facts have come to light on the secret ballot at the BJP legislature party on Wednesday which saw D.V. Sadananda Gowda emerging victorious over Jagadish Shettar.

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The vertical split in the ruling BJP was more than evident as D.V. Sadananda Gowda took oath as the new chief minister on Friday.

If outgoing Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa had his way, six ministers would have joined the new Cabinet but the rival camp, led by Jagadish Shettar, reportedly said “thanks, but no, thanks” to the offer on Thursday, hours before new chief minister Sadananda Gowda was sworn in as the state’s 26th chief minister at a crowded function at Raj Bhavan as the lone member of his Cabinet.

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislature party leader D.V. Sadananda Gowda, 58, sworn-in as Karnataka chief minister on Thursday.

Karnataka Governor H.R. Bhardwaj led the swearing in ceremony of the

Lok Sabha MP D. V. Sadananda Gowda, a loyalist of ousted CM B. S. Yeddyurappa, was on Thursday sworn in as Chief Minister of Karnataka with the rebel BJP faction headed by Jagadish Shettar boycotting

Hours before Karnataka Lokayukta Justice N. Santosh Hegde was scheduled to demit office, and in a move that smacked of attempts to stall prosecution, outgoing chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa on Tuesday filed a petition before him seeking reconsideration of his report indicting him in the illegal mining.

With only hours to go before the crucial BJP legislature party meet to pick a new chief minister, Central leader Rajnath Singh and senior BJP leaders met at a private hotel here to hammer out a consensus candidate.