'Operation Kamala' (Operation Lotus) refers to an alleged attempt of the BJP to engineer defection of opponent party legislators to install its own government and to ensure its stability
Harish Rao said Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah had admitted that his government would not be able to supply more than five hours of electricity to the farm sector.
The Sangareddy Police have seized seven kilograms of gold ornaments from jewellery traders on the Karnataka-Telangana interstate border at Madgi Village of Mogudampally Mandal.
To tide over the power crisis, many manufacturing units are forced to depend on generators shelling out about Rs.2,000 a day. Many unit managements are now worrying about increasing operational costs, paying interests on loans and declining production.
All the dead --nine men, three woman and a boy --were migrant labourers who belonged to Gorantla mandal of Sri Sathya Sai district across the border in Andhra Pradesh.
Addressing a press conference here on Thursday, Harish Rao said TPCC president A Revanth Reddy had already hinted at restricting supply of power to the agriculture services to only three hours a day.
Federation president K Shantha Kumar said the Congress, before the elections in May this year, had promised to provide 10 hours of quality power supply to farmers.
According to a statement issued by the CM's office, the Chief Minister said Rs 500 crore has been provided in the state budget for acquiring new buses, and therefore ordered that the purchase process be completed soon.
KT Rama Rao said farmers in Telangana were aware of the Congress party's incompetence and now their counterparts in Karnataka were experiencing the same
Gowda had said on Thursday in Bengaluru that Vijayan had granted full approval for the JD(S)' alliance with the BJP in Karnataka to protect the party's interests.