Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], September 7 (ANI): Karnataka Congress on Tuesday mocked Revenue Minister of the state R Ashoka for allegedly "sleeping" at a review meeting on waterlogging in Bengaluru.

Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], July 24 (ANI): Karnataka Congress Chief DK Shivakumar termed Enforcement Directorate's (ED) fresh summon to party chief Sonia Gandhi as "harassment" and "unnecessary".

Bengaluru Feb 25 PTI Karnataka Congress men chant mantra of unity ahead of Assembly elections in the State next year A day after a meeting Rahul Gandhi Leader of Opposition in Assembly Siddaramaiah and Karnataka Congress president D K Shivakumar held a joint press meet in New Delhi on Friday and expressed confidence about Congress returning to power There is one year for Assembly elections there is a conducive atmosphere for Congress to come back to power because the current BJP government came to power through operation lotus no developmental work has happened since then The people are cursing the government said Siddaramaiah said He said Rahul Gandhi called for a meeting of senior Congress men in Karnataka to take stock of the political situation and discuss the strategy to win the election and come back to power Rahul Gandhi has got the message that everyone in the party is working together in the State and that the party will come back to power We all are working together there are no differences BJP is trying to project there are differences that is not a fact As we are a democratic party there may be differences of opinion thats all he added Rahul Gandhis meeting with State Congress leaders is said to be aimed at sending out a message of collective leadership amid reports of political oneupmanship between Siddaramaiah and Shivakumar as both have chief ministerial ambitions Stating that about 15 State Congress leaders met Rahul Gandhi in the presence of party general secretaries Randeep Singh Surjewala and K C Venugopal Shivakumar saidWeve apprised him Rahul about political developments in Karnataka and party organisational matters We have one years time and we have been asked to go before the people keeping in mind the national political developments issues of the people of the State Leaders have been asked to spend more time on the field It is our duty to bring the party back to power and we have promised to work together he said He said the Congresss padayatra demanding implementation of the Mekedatu project would resume from Ramanagra on February 27 and conclude at the National College Grounds in Bengaluru on March 3 For the yatra Shivakumar sought cooperation from the public and various organisations With limited options amid the surge in COVID cases the government prohibiting movement of people and the High Courts observations the Congress halted the yatra mid-way in January PTI KSU NVG NVG

Bengaluru Feb 20 PTI The Congress in Karnataka continued its agitation inside the Karnataka Assembly for the past three days demanding removal of Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Minister K S Eshwarappa for his alleged statement on the national flag The Congress legislators have been camping in the Vidhana Soudha inside the Assembly Hall and have been sleeping there in the night The agitation is happening because of the adamant stand of the BJP Who is asking for Eshwarappas resignation No one We want his dismissal Our appeal is also to Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot to dismiss him KPCC chief D K Shivakumar said He was confident that the minister would be dismissed from office in the next two days Stating that Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai is under pressure from within the party Shivakumar said if the CM has self-esteem then he would have thrown out foul-mouthed Eshwarappa from the government when the latter had said Medium and Large Industries Minister Murugesh Nirani would become the next chief minister However the Chief Minister said on Saturday that the Congress has lost the morality to be the opposition party Reacting to a question about the protest and camping inside the Karnataka Assembly by Congress party members Bommai said they had lost morality to be either the ruling party or even sit in the opposition D K Shivakumar and other Congress legislators go home for a while to come back again The agitation will continue either till the dismissal of Eshwarappa or till the end of the current assembly session a source close to Shivakumar told PTI The source said the legislators have been sleeping at night inside the Assembly perform yoga under the rising sun and jog and walk around the Vidhana Soudha in the morning The Congress in Karnataka has been demanding the resignation of the minister and that he be booked for sedition regarding his statement about the national flag The partys agitation led to chaos in the assembly and council proceedings for three days Eshwarappa had said on February 9 that Bhagwa dhwaj saffron flag may become the national flag some time in the future The senior party leader however had said the tricolour is the national flag now and it should be respected by everyone Hundreds of years ago the chariots of Sri Ramachandra and Maruthi had saffron flags on them Was the tricolour flag there in our country then Now it tricolour is fixed as our national flag what respect it has to be given should be given by every person who eats food in this country there is no question about it Eshwarappa had said Responding to a question by reporters whether the saffron flag can be hoisted on the red fort he had said Not today some day in the future Discussions are today taking place in the country on Hindu vichara and Hindutva People used to laugh at one point when we said Ram Mandair will be constructed in Ayodhya arent we constructing it now he said In the same way some time in the future after 100 or 200 or 500 years Bhagwa dhwaj may become the national flag I dont know Eshwarappa added The overnight agitation by the Congress came even as protests by the party legislators rocked the proceedings in both houses PTI GMS GMS HDA HDA

Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], January 30 (ANI): Karnataka Congress president DK Shivakumar on Sunday met former Chief Minister and BJP leader BS Yediyurappa to express condolences on the demise of the latter's granddaughter.