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Congress-JDS coalition capture BBMP, Manjunath Reddy new Bengaluru Mayor

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Manjunath Reddy Mayor

Bengaluru: B.N. Manjunath Reddy (Congress) has been elected BBMP Mayor and Hemalatha Gopalaiah the Deputy Mayor. Mr. Reddy secured 131 votes against 128 votes to the losing candidate.

Ms. Gopalaiah, a first-time councillor from Crushabhavathi Nagar (JDS), too secured 131 votes against 128. The members to 12 standing committees were elected unopposed. The members of these committees will in turn elect their presidents.

B.N. Manjunath Reddy, third-time councillor from Madiwala (Congress) and Hemalatha Gopalaiah, first-time councillor from Crushabhavathi Nagar (JDS) have filed nominations for the posts of Mayor and Deputy Mayor respectively.

Manjunath Raju, second-time councillor from Kadu Malleshwara Ward and H.C. Nagarathna from BJP jave also filed their nominations for the posts of Mayor and Deputy Mayor.

BJP councillors arrived in two buses to the BBMP office led by R. Ashoka, former Deputy Chief Minister of Karnataka. JDS councillors also arrived at the BBMP head office.

Chetan, a Congress councillor from Kodigehalli was earlier hospitalised after being diagnosed from dengue. Minister of Agriculture for State Krishna Byre Gowda is said to be bringing him to BBMP HQ straight from the hospital.

(Agencies)

Karnataka HC today allowed mayoral poll as per present provisions

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BBMP poll

Bengaluru: Days after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) swept the elections for the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), the election for the mayor and deputy mayor (reserved for a woman), is scheduled to take place on Friday.

Karnataka HC today allowed mayoral poll as per present provisions under the law meaning that MPs, MLAs and MLCs can vote.

However, the court will decide the validity of the present provisions after a full hearing. That means the court can invalidate the election of mayor if provisions are found unconstitutional.

The BJP had won 100 wards out of 198 at the BBMP polls held on August 22. The Congress had bagged 76, Janata Dal Secular (JD-S) 14 and others 8.

Congress sends corporators to Madikeri

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CONGRESS-CORPORATERS

Bengaluru: It has been more than three weeks since the BBMP election results were declared but there is still no clarity on the political alliances. With the mayoral elections not very far away, parties are trying protect their flock lest they go astray.

The New Indian Express reports that the Congress has herded its legislators to a resort in Madikeri in Kodagu district to protect them from being “approached” by the BJP ahead of the mayoral elections.

The fourteen JD(S) and seven independent corporators who have joined hands with the Congress to grab power at the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) are already in different resorts in Kerala, said the newspaper report.

According to the report, all the corporators and H D Kumaraswamy would return to the city on the day that the mayoral election is scheduled to be held.

Before they left for Madikeri in three buses, all corporators were given a list of dos and don’ts for the next four days by Parameshwara and other leaders.

The corporators were reportedly warned by the KPCC President to not take calls from strangers or BJP leaders.

​However, the leaders of the Congress have not had a one-on-one meeting with Kumaraswamy.

The newspaper reported that the BJP was still trying to prevent non-BBMP members from voting in the mayoral election. They want the State Election Commission to delete names of the Congress MLCs who were registered voters in their constituencies.

(Agencies)

JD (S) withdraws conditions for alliance with the Congress in BBMP

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Kumaraswamy

Bengaluru: HD Kumaraswamy, JD (S) leader made a u-turn on Monday September 7 by saying that the conditions he had set for having an alliance with the Congress in the BBMP council would be withdrawn.

He said that the part would not try for bargaining with regard to power-sharing in the Council anymore.

He added that he had put certain conditions for the Congress which was an independent decision. “I wanted the Congress to drop the Bengaluru restructuring bill, but the party’s stand was different. Now we have decided not to impose any conditions. The CM has to take the responsibility to see that things had to be set right,” he said.

He later said that if the Congress offered, the party would accept the post of the Deputy Mayor. A call on power-sharing module would be taken if the Congress felt benevolent enough to offer the post of Deputy Mayor and the party would not demand anything with regard to the standing committee posts, he added.

This was the first time that the JD(S) clarified its stand on the alliance with the Congress. Previously, as soon as the results were announced, the party used to assume contradictory stances which gave room to conspiracy theories.

However, national president HD Deve Gowda has said that they had not laid down any conditions. But Kumaraswamy has noted that he would not meet the Congress leaders until they issued a public statement that the proposed BBMP restructuring bill would be dropped.

Kumaraswamy informed that he had conveyed the party’s stand over the phone to state Congress president G Parameshwara and CM Siddaramaiah on Sunday September 6 and said that he might meet Parameshwara in a day or two.

He further said that the alliance with the Congress would be only in the BBMP, however, the JD(S) would not mind ruling the Council along for the next 5 years only on grounds that the Congress was willing to do the same.

He criticized the Congress and the BJP for branding the JD(S) an opportunist. He said that the national parties had misused his party to suit their convenience.

At present there are 3 candidates for the post of the Deputy Mayor in the JD (S) – MLA Gopalaiah’s wife S P Hemalatha from Vrushabhavathinagar, MLA B Z Zameer Ahmed Khan’s candidates Umme Salma (Kushalnagar ward) and Nazima Khanam (KR Pet ward).

(Agencies)

BJP organizes signature campaign against Congress and JDS

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BBMP poll

Bengaluru: The BJP conducted a signature campaign against the state govenrment on Sunday in Bengaluru. The campaign was to highlight the infirmities in the cobbling up of an alliance by the Congress and the JDS against what they called the mandate of the People.

Union Ministers Ananthkumar, Sadanandagowda, BJP National Vice President B.S.Yediyurappa, BJP State President Prahalad Joshi, and other senior leaders of the Party were present during the campaign.

(Agencies)

We won’t bargain for any posts with Congress: Deve Gowda

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Deve Gowda

Bengaluru: “We will not bargain for any posts”, said H D Deve Gowda on Tuesday September 1, finally coming to a decision to give his party’s “unconditional support” to the Congress.

After the entire saga rounding the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike elections the JD(S) ruled H D Deve Gowda came up with this decision.

Addressing a press conference, Gowda said, “We have neither set any conditions nor bargained for anything during our negotiations.”

Ruling out the possibility of the party supporting the BJP, he said, “There is a need to protect the existence of the JD(S) and all decisions are taken in keeping with this line.”

Declaring that he was not going to compromise on the “ideals of the party”, he said, “People from the minorities, dalits and OBCs are among our 14 corporators.”

Referring to his meeting with BJP leader and Union Law Minister D V Sadananda Gowda last week, he said, “He sought our support, but I have not committed anything to him.”

He said Sadananda Gowda might not have got the party’s approval to broach an alliance with the JD(S).

(Agencies)

JDS decides to join hands with Cong for BBMP Mayoral poll

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JDS

Bengaluru: Former Prime Minister and JDS Supremo H D Deve Gowda today said his party has decided to join hands with Congress for the Mayoral elections to Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), the city civic body.

“Our party leaders including legislators have decided to join hands with Congress for the Mayoral election,” he told reporters here.

Gowda’s son and JDS president H D Kumaraswamy had yesterday made it clear that his party would join hands with Congress for Mayoral polls. The decision was taken at a meeting with the party’s core group to discuss strategies for the election.

Gowda said the final decision on the alliance would be taken in a meeting between KPCC President G Parameshwara, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Kumaraswamy.

“Mallikarjun Kharge, who is a senior Congress leader, had told our partymen to hold talks on the issue at state level since it is a matter concerning corporation poll and there is no need for intervention of High Command,” he said.

Asked if his party had bargained for getting posts, Gowda said, “there is no question of it because the party will get its pieces of cake based on its numerical strength.”

“Except the post of the Deputy Mayor, my corporators will get two chairmanship posts and memberships of various BBMP committees, simply based on numerical strength,” he said.

On allegations of “unethically” forging an alliance to keep BJP out of power from BBMP, Gowda cited instances of Congress-BJP, Congress-NCP and NCP-Shiva Sena alliances for mayoral elections in Maharashtra.

“There are innumerable instances – In Pune, Sharad Pawar forged NCP-Shiv Sena alliance – Do not get embarrassed, in Mumbai, Congress tied up with BJP for mayoral alliance. So there is no need for pondering over such allegations,” he said.

To a query, Gowda said nobody from Congress and BJP had approached him, except Union Minister D V Sadananda Gowda, who was not a representative of the BJP central leadership.

Upsetting Congress plans to wrest control of the BBMP council, BJP won 100 wards out of 198 at the polls held on August 22. Congress had bagged 76, JD(S) bagged 14 and others 8.

Besides Corporators, the 260-member BBMP Council includes 62 other members from Bengaluru with voting rights. They include Members of Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha, MLAs and MLCs.

With the magic number to gain control over BBMP being 131, BJP’s strength including non-corporator members stands at 125, Congress at 111, JDS 21 and others 13.

(PTI)

JDS keeps suspense on issue of support in Bengaluru civic body

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Bengaluru: Maintaining suspense over his party’s move, JDS supremo H D Deve Gowda today made it clear that he is in no hurry or ‘anxious’ to take a call on the issue of extending support either to the ruling Congress or BJP to take control of the city civic body.

Gowda said he would convene a meeting of party MLAs, MLCs and corporators and defeated candidates in the August 22 polls held to Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), on September 5 to take a decision.

“I am calling all my MLAs, MLCs and corporators – both victorious and defeated on Sept 5.We will all sit together and interact to find ways to strengthen our small regional party,” he told PTI, even as his party corporators were cooling their heels in Kerala to prevent from being “poached” upon.

Gowda said he is not anxious nor was he a beggar to go to the doorsteps of the national parties – BJP and Congress – for lending support to rule BBMP. “I am not anxious. Why should I be bothered? I am not a beggar either. People know who are anxious. Congress and BJP are (anxious),” he said.

The JDS chief said, nevertheless he has to take a decision very carefully, given the past records of both the national parties sullying the image of his party. “I have to be very careful in taking a decision because both parties took our support earlier and damaged our reputation … I took the support of Congress and burnt my fingers.Dharam Singh was then made the CM who led Congress-JDS government. The Congress destroyed my party,” he said.

“Later, without my knowledge, my party leaders took the support of BJP, and thereafter what happened everybody knows. My son’s image was tarnished by a BJP leader after he levelled corruption charges in a mining case,” he said.

Asked which is a more dangerous party between BJP and Congress, Gowda said, “How do I say who is the better evil?” Gowda also questioned BJP’s claim of having people’s mandate, saying “If I support BJP, the Congress has to sit in the opposition, and if I support Congress, the BJP has to sit in the opposition. Who is saying BJP enjoys the mandate.”

Asked about the intriguing drama being unfolded even for a city corporation, Gowda ruled out any horse-trading. “Let me tell you with great responsibility. Nobody can indulge in horse-trading. No Operation Kamala this time, that BJP crafted in 2009.Nobody can touch(my corporators),”he said.

BJP has accused the Congress of indulging in horsetrading to gain control of BBMP. The Congress is working on ways to thwart BJP from ruling BBMP for a second term but the party is reportedly divided over taking help from JDS.

Upsetting Congress plans to wrest control of the BBMP council, BJP won 100 wards out of 198, as the results were declared on Tuesday for the polls held on August 22. Congress had bagged 76, JD(S) bagged 14 and others eight.

With one independent Corporator joining BJP, the party has increased its tally to 101.
Besides Corporators, the 255-member BBMP Council includes 57 other members from Bengaluru with voting rights. They include Members of Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha, MLAs and MLCs.

With the magic number to gain control over BBMP being 128, BJP’s strength including non-corporator members stands at 125, Congress’ at 101, JD(S) 21 and others at eight.

(PTI)

SDPI’s Mujahid Pasha wins in BBMP polls

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Mujahid Pasha SDPI

Bengaluru: Social Democratic Party of India, the political arm of Popular Front of India, which had opened its account in the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) in 2010, managed to win one seat in 2015 too.

Buoyed by the victory of some of its candidates in 2013 civic polls and recent gram panchayat polls across Karnataka, the Muslim dominant party had contested for 18 seats out of 198 wards.

Among 18 candidates, Mujahid Pasha, who had contested in Siddapura Ward has registered a victory.

However, SDPI has lost Padarayanapura Ward, wherein its female candidate Prof. Nazneen Begum had defeated JDS candidate with a clear margin of 2500 votes in 2010.

Dr Mahboob Shareef Awad, Karnataka state present of SDPI, expressing contentment over SDPI’s overall performance in its second attempt in the BBMP, said that workers’ hard work yielded positive result.

(Agencies)

Siddaramaiah owns responsibility for BBMP debacle

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Siddaramaiah

Bengaluru: Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah on Tuesday August 25 accepted defeat in the BBMP election, and owned entire responsibility for the debacle.

Soon after realising that Congress had suffered defeat in the BBMP polls with BJP marching into the three figure mark out of a total of 198 seats, Siddaramaih said that Congress expected a simple majority in the BBMP, as BJP had ‘done nothing’ for the development of Bengaluru in the last five years of BBMP rule.

The CM called a press meet at his residence ‘Krishna’ soon after it was clear that BJP was heading towards victory.

When asked if he would resign as CM, he said this was not a referendum, so there was no need for anyone to resign. “Soon after the Lok Sabha elections, BJP lost badly in Delhi, but did Narendra Modi resign?” he questioned.

However, he said that the state government will fully co-operate with the BJP-led BBMP and provide all the required grants for the development of Bengaluru city.

Answering a query on cabinet expansion, he said it would happen soon, but did not give any time frame.

As per the current trends, out of 198 BBMP seats, BJP is leading / won in 100 seats, Congress in 76, JD(S) in 14 and others 8.

(Agencies)

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