Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa who is undergoing treatment for coronavirus at a private hospital is now stable and recovering, his office said on Sunday. The Chief Minister who was admitted in a hospital on Friday for COVID treatment is being monitored by a team of expert doctors. The health of the Chief Minister is stable and he is recovering, the office of the Chief Minister tweeted on Sunday. Yediyurappa is spending his time in the hospital reading his favourite books and is in touch with officials to give them necessary directions, the tweet further said. The Chief Minister had fever on Friday and when he got himself tested, the report came positive for coronavirus.
updated: Apr 01 2021, 16:23 ist
A group of Karnataka ministers on Thursday strongly backed Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa a day after senior Minister KS Eshwarappa accused him of running an authoritarian administration and interfering with the affairs of his Rural Development & Panchayat Raj (RDPR) department.
Home Minister Basavaraj Bommai, Revenue Minister R Ashoka, Health Minister K Sudhakar and Agriculture Minister BC Patil came out in support of Yediyurappa, who is yet to break his silence on the issue.
On Wednesday, RDPR Minister KS Eshwarappa met Governor Vajubhai R Vala with a 5-page complaint against Yediyurappa for “direct interference, serious lapses and authoritarian way of running the administration”, which caused ripples in the ruling BJP.
updated: Mar 15 2021, 16:39 ist
Karnataka Leader of the Opposition Siddaramaiah on Monday announced that he would contest the next Assembly election, drawing curtains on speculation over his political future.
“I will contest the next election. I won’t run away,” Siddaramaiah said in the Legislative Assembly during his speech on the Budget, which took a brief political detour. “Let there be no doubt on this. I hope I’ve clarified this to the people of the state.”
Siddaramaiah said this after Speaker Vishweshwar Hegde Kageri nudged him to spell out what he had in mind.
The BJP was quick to point out that Siddaramaiah’s announcement was not only aimed at the people of the state, but also those within the Congress. Ostensibly, they meant Karnataka Pradesh Congress President (KPCC) president D K Shivakumar.
Revenue minister R Ashoka responded positively to a letter from Sri Vishwaprasanna Thirtha urging the state government to handover gomala to registered gaushalas in Karnataka, in Udupi on Monday
UDUPI: Revenue minister R Ashoka on Monday consented positively to a request from Sri Vishwaprasanna Thirtha of Pejavar Mutt to entrust ‘gomala’ (grazing) land in the respective districts to registered gaushalas there as per their demand. The revenue department will frame rules to regularise such allocation to the gaushalas, Ashoka said, after accepting a letter from the seer handed over to him by social activists Vasudev Bhat Perampalli and S V Bhat.