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Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has resigned, concluding a prolonged power struggle with Deputy CM D.K. Shivakumar. Despite being offered a Rajya Sabha seat and a national party role, Siddaramaiah declined, stating his commitment to serving as an MLA. His departure marks the end of a significant era in state politics, built on welfare and backward class mobilization.

Deve Gowda has decided to invite all the national-level leaders who participated in Jayaprakash Narayan or JP's Sampoorn Kranthi movement during the days of the Emergency. Arun Jaitley and Lalu Prasad Yadav were student leaders spearheading the movement, and they were even jailed at that time.

The Janata Dal (Secular), which finished third in the HDMC polls last March, now stands a chance of getting its candidate elected as the mayor.

RAICHUR: Members of the Janata Dal (Secular), led by president Shaik Rizwan, here on Tuesday staged a dharna in front of the Deputy Commissioner's office.

RAICHUR: The Janata Dal (Secular) has urged the government to release a compensation of Rs 25,000 per acre of land to farmers who have been hit hard by the out-of-season hailstorm that has threatened the very yield.

In Sandalwood, a star's movie is released with the usual fanfare: ardent fans all over the state erect banners, paste posters and perform 'abhishekam' at huge cutouts of the matinee idol in the theatre premises.

Telangana's Rythu Bandhu scheme has found an echo in poll-bound Karnataka. HD Kumaraswamy-led Janata Dal (Secular), an ally of BRS, has promised to implement 'Raitha Chaitanya' scheme - modelled on the lines of Rythu Bandhu - by offering Rs 10,000 per acre as input subsidy to the farmers.

The Janata Dal (Secular) will abstain from voting in Friday's Vice Presidential poll and will maintain an equidistance from both Congress and the BJP.

The Janata Dal (Secular) on Saturday released a list of six more candidates for the May 10 Assembly elections in Karnataka. With this, the party has so far released a list of 149 candidates. The first list comprising 93 was released in December last year and 50 on Friday.

Just when things appeared in favour of the BJP, Karnataka politics took a new turn as Janata Dal (Secular), apparently supported by the Congress government, spirited away rebel MLAs from the Benaulim resort they had been camping at for the last three days, to Chennai, in an unprecedented high drama witnessed in Goa on Friday, one-and-a-half days before the do-or-die trust vote for the BJP government there.

The JD(S) said it will field candidates for the Nanjangud and Gundulpet assembly constituencies.

RAICHUR: Janata Dal (Secular) leader and former deputy chief minister Siddaramaiah on Thursday criticised the state government for its "abject failure" in sending a report on the drought situation to the Union government.

RAICHUR: The Janata Dal (Secular) on Thursday lashed out at the Congress government for not initiating measures to address the acute water crisis casting its shadow on the district of Raichur.

Shiv Sena chief Balasaheb Thackeray has okayed his party's tie-up with the Indian Muslim Congress Party in the Malegaon Municipal Corporation.