As it happened: SC on coal report | Karnataka verdict

CBI has become a caged parrot speaking in master's voice, says the apex court

05.25 pm | CBI chief to ensure no access to any person, including Law Minister, other Union Ministers, law officers, CBI counsel and Department of Prosecution of CBI to probe in coal block scam: SC

SC wants to know can Law Minister ask CBI to show details of probe or status report in a case involving people of other ministeries and PMO
04.50 pm | The heart of the report was changed on the suggestions of government officials, says SC

The apex court directs CBI not to share progress of probe or any report or material with anybody other than its 33-member team and director

04.00 pm | The Law Minister and the Attorney General should resign immediately: Sushma Swaraj on SC's observation on coalgate
03.40 pm | CBI must know how to stand up against all pulls and pressures by government and its officials: SC

 

No substantial progress has been made in the coal scam probe after registration of the case: SC tells CBI

03.05 pm | My meeting with CBI officials took place only on suggestions of the Law Minister: AG tells SC
03.00 pm | Job of CBI is not to interact with government officials but to interrogate to find the truth: SC

SC pulls up Joint Secretaries of PMO and Coal Ministry for meeting CBI officials and suggesting changes in the draft report
02.50 pm | CBI has become a caged parrot speaking in master's voice: SC

Coalgate | SC expresses concern over Govt’s interference in CBI probe  
1.35 pm | Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's first statement on the Karnataka win: Congress victory in Karnataka is a rejection of BJP's ideology. 
01.20 pm | CM hopeful Siddaramaiah speaking to NDTV says, "There are big challenges ahead for the party. We have to ensure clean administration ...  I thank Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, Manmohan Singh. The Rahul factor was important for us to get votes.

01. 10 pm | Congress president Sonia Gandhi's first statement since the Karnataka victory: We expected to win, but I'm very happy with the victory.    

BJP will remain No. 3 in 2014: Sibal

 

Bad decisions in Karnataka: Rudy

12.50 pm | Anita Kumaraswamy, wife of former CM H D Kumaraswamy, loses to C P Yogeshwar of Samajawadi Party from Channapatana
12.40 pm | Former Karnataka chief minister BS Yeddyurappa wins from Shikaripur by 15000 votes
12.35 pm | JD(S) state chief and former chief minister H D Kumaraswamy wins from Ramanagaram

Anitha Kumaraswamy continues to trail by 8,000 votes from the Channapatana constituency

12.25 pm | Actor Pooja Gandhi (BSR Congress) loses to the JD(S) candidate in Raichur

Congress leader Priyank Kharge has won the Chittapur seat by 11,000 votes.

12.15 pm | Media reports say there were celebrations outside probable CM candidate Siddaramaiah's residence as Congress was leading in 120 seats.

Siddaramaiah wins Varuna seat in Mysore district with a margin of 20,000 votes.

Lok Sabha adjourned sine-die two days before scheduled end of Budget session; NDA leaders to meet President Pranab Mukherjee
12.05 pm | Mining baron G Karunakara Reddy (BJP), brother of jailed former minister G Janardhan Reddy, loses to MP Ravindra of Congress.
11.40 am | Anand Singh of the BJP won the prestigious Bellary Vijaynagar seat. He beat the BSR Congress headed by former BJP leader, Sriramulu, by 13,000 votes
11.30 am | The Congress is leading in 118 seats at present and is set to form the government on its own. The biggest question now is as to who will be the chief minister. Union Minister Mallikarjuna Kharge and Siddaramaiah are being seen as the two probable frontrunners.

Parliament adjourned till noon as BJP stalls proceedings demanding resignation of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
11.25 am | Former chief minister and JD (S) president HD Kumaraswamy, whose party has emerged as the second largest party, says he is not in the kingmaker race. "If people bless us, we will sit in the opposition." 
11.20 am | Tanveer Sait, Congress candidate from NR Constituency in Mysore, wins. Five Independents, including minister Varthur Prakash & Haladi Srinivas Shetty win.
11.15 am | Ramalinga Reddy of Congress wins from BTM Layout in Bangalore. 

Lakshman Savadi leads. Savadi was involved in a porn scandal.

Latest trends from Karnataka
Out of 223 seats, Cong leads in 115 seats, BJP leads in 35 seats, JDS leads in 42 seats, KJP leads in 13 seats.
10.55 am |  Congress emerges as the clear winner in Karnataka

The leads for 223 seats are in. The Congress looks set to form the government and is leading in 115 seats.

Renukacharya who joined the KJP has lost the elections. Contesting on a KJP ticket after quitting the BJP, Renukacharya the former excise minister lost to the Congress from Honnalli.
10.50 am | The Congress has reached the half-way mark and is leading in 113 seats.
10.35 am | Vasanth Bangera of Congress wins from Belthangadi. Priya Krishna of Congress also wins. This is the first win for Congress in Bangalore City.
10.25 am | Shakuntala Shetty records first Congress win in Puttur. The first win has come in for the Congress, with  Shetty defeating the BJP candidate in Puttur.
10.12 am | Congress Karnataka CM front-runner Parameshwara trails.  Parameshwara lost his lead to the JD(S) at Koratagere constituency
Latest trends from Karnataka
Out of 223 seats, Cong leads in 101 seats, BJP leads in 39 seats, JDS leads in 42 seats, KJP leads in 10 seats.
10.00 am | Both sons of former CM S Bangarappa are trailing. His son Kumar Bangarappa is a Congress candidate while the other son Madhu Bangarappa is a JD(S) candidate

BJP's Sadanada Gowda on poll trends

 

. Not the right time to comment now. We will wait for another hour
. JD(S) is doing better than BJP. We could not do as expected. It is a setback

. Don't know why this is happened and how. Will have to analysis the situation

. Yeddyurappa has been effective us to a considerable level

 

9.50 am | Speaking to NDTV, BJP spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad said: We will respect the mandate. We will reclaim our position in the Lok Sabha elections. We will sit in the opposition and see how the Congress or the Congress and its allies perform.
9.45 am | Congress CM aspirant and KPCC chief Parameshwara is trailing against JD(S) candidate Sudhakar Lal
9.40 am | Law minister Suresh Kumar leads in Rajajinagar. Kumar who was trailing at the Rajajinagar seat has now picked up the lead

Film star-turned-politician Ambareesh from Congress is leading in Mandya seat
9.20 am | BJP state chief KS Eshwarappa has slipped to the third position at Shimoga constituency. The Deputy CM is trailing to both the Congress and the KJP at his constituency which he had won comfortably last time.

B Sriramulu of the BSR Congress party continues to maintain a steady lead in Bellary rural

Law minister Suresh Kumar is trailing in his constituency of Rajajinagar to Congress candidate
Latest trends from Karnataka
9.15 am | Out of 223 seats, Cong leads in 54 seats, BJP leads in 34 seats, JDS leads in 21 seats, KJP leads in 4 seats.

9.00 am | Karnataka CM Jagadish Shettar is leading in Hubli-Dharwad central constituency
8.55 am | Former Karnataka chief minister H D Kumaraswamy and his wife Anitha Kumaraswamy are leading in Ramanagaram and Channapattana constituencies respectively
8.45 am | Karnataka Congress spokesperson KE Radhakrishna says Congress will sweep the polls with the party high command deciding who will be CM 
8.40 am | The Karnataka Janatha Paksha (KJP) is putting up a better performance than expected. The party headed by former Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa is already leading in four constituencies which includes the Shikaripura seat contested by him. 

8.30 am | Initial counting of votes indicates a trend for Congress which is leading in 9 of the 30 constituencies where the counting of postal ballots has been taken up.

 

On May 5, Karnataka registered a record voter turnout of more than 71%,  all political parties are keeping their fingers crossed as the results are expected to be out by Wednesday noon. 

 

Exit polls on Sunday predicted a win for the Congress, and the party is confident of returning to power.