Basavaraj Bommai and his father, S.R. Bommai, stand as a unique father-son duo to have served as Chief Ministers of Karnataka. However, their sons, Bharath and Nikhil, respectively, faced defeat in ...

When Basavaraj Bommai (in pic) took over as Karnataka chief minister in end-July, the ‘compliment’ that became news came from a predecessor—H.D. Kumaraswamy of the Janata Dal (Secular). ­Kumaraswamy ...

The Karnataka BJP legislature party on Tuesday elected Basavaraj Bommai as its new leader and he will succeed outgoing Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa. According to party sources, Bommai, a Lingayat ...

The BJP on Saturday announced former Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai's son as its candidate for Shiggaon by-poll and the party's ST Morcha president Bangaru Hanumanthu for Sandur Assembly ...

The defeat of Bharath Bommai in the Shiggaon Assembly constituency byelection on Saturday reminded one of a similar defeat that his father faced in his first election. It was in 1994 that Basavaraj ...

Calculations around castes and sub-castes tend to play a big role in the electoral arena in India, barring some exceptions. One such could be the Shiggaon Assembly constituency in Haveri district of ...

Bommai is making his debut in the Lok Sabha polls, almost a year after the BJP fared poorly in the assembly polls held in May last year, when he was at the helm. The son of Janata Parivar stalwart and ...

Bengaluru: For the ensuing Shiggaon-Savanur assembly by-poll, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) announced a political novice Bharat Bommai (36), son of former Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai, as its ...

Bengaluru: Congress' Yasir Ahmed Khan Pathan on Saturday won the Shiggaon Assembly segment in Karnataka by defeating former Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai's son Bharath Bommai by a margin of 13,448 ...

Justice S R Krishna Kumar, delivering the order, allowed Bommai's plea to quash the proceedings that had been initiated by Shiggaon police under Section 196(1)(a) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), ...

Former Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai is all set to make his debut in the Lok Sabha polls, almost a year after the BJP fared poorly in the assembly polls held when he was at the helm.