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  • Amit Shah targets Congress, BRS in Karnataka

    Amit Shah targets Congress, BRS in Karnataka

    Bidar (IANS) | Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday blamed the Congress and the BRS for ignoring the sacrifices of the martyrs who freed Hyderabad from the Nizam’s rule. Amit Shah made this statement during the inauguration of the Gorta Martyr Memorial and the statue of the country’s first Home Minister late Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel at Gorta village in Bidar district of Karnataka. Amati Shah also hoisted the 103 feet high national flag on the occasion.

    Addressing the gathering, Amit Shah recalled that hundreds of people from Gorta were killed by the Nizam’s army for hoisting a small flag. Today we have hoisted a huge flag here.

    Amit Shah hit out at the Congress party for ignoring the sacrifices of hundreds of people who laid down their lives for the liberated areas under the Nizam’s rule after the rest of the country got independence.

    Shah accused the Congress, due to vote bank politics, the Congress never paid respect to the martyrs who sacrificed their lives in the Hyderabad liberation struggle.

    Shah did not even spare the ruling BRS party in Telangana. Shah said that the Telangana government has been continuously refraining from celebrating Hyderabad Liberation Day, but the BJP under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been celebrating it in Telangana since last year.

    Promising to build a grand memorial with an outlay of Rs 50 crore if the BJP is voted back to power in Karnataka, Shah said Hyderabad Liberation Day next year would be celebrated at Gorta.

    The event was attended by former Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa and Telangana BJP chief Bandi Sanjay Kumar, among others.

    –IANS

  • Congress starts ‘Sankalp Satyagraha’ in support of Rahul Gandhi

    Congress starts ‘Sankalp Satyagraha’ in support of Rahul Gandhi

    The Congress’ Rajasthan unit on Sunday began its day-long “Sankalp Satyagraha” here in support of Rahul Gandhi following his disqualification from the Lok Sabha.

    The party’s state unit chief Govind Singh Dotasra, minister Pratap Singh Khachariyawas and several other leaders are taking part in the protest at the Collectorate Circle.

    The Congress has announced plans for a day-long satyagraha in front of Mahatma Gandhi statues at all states and district headquarters to protest against Gandhi’s conviction in a 2019 defamation case and his subsequent disqualification from the Lok Sabha.

    Gandhi was disqualified from the Lok Sabha on Friday, a day after a court in Gujarat’s Surat convicted him in a 2019 defamation case. The disqualification will prevent Gandhi (52), a four-time MP, from contesting elections for eight years unless a higher court stays the conviction.

    Speaking at the protest venue, Dotasra said the agitation is against the Centre’s suppression of the opposition’s voice.

    Former mayor Jyoti Khandelwal said Prime Minister maintained silence on the Adani issue but action was taken against Gandhi, who has been constantly raising the voice of the people of India.

    “Satyagraha is the power which had forced the British to bow down. The Modi government will also have to bow down,” she said.

  • Congress retains most veterans for Karnataka Assembly election

    Congress retains most veterans for Karnataka Assembly election

    KPCC president DK Shivakumar (Kanakapura), former minister H C Mahadevappa (T Narasipura), former DCM G Parameshwara (Koratagere) and former minister TB Jayachandra (Sira) will contest the assembly elections from their respective constituencies.

    In a surprise move, the Congress has declared Anup Iyengar, a political novice, as its candidate for Malleswaram and he will take on IT/BT Minister C N Ashwathnarayan of the BJP. Puttanna, who resigned as BJP MLC, has been given the Rajajinagar seat, currently held by BJP veteran S Suresh Kumar. Pulakeshinagar has been kept open as there was opposition from the minority community to the candidature of MLA R Akhanda Srinivasa Murthy.

    D Sudhakar has been cleared for Hiriyuru in Chitradurga district instead of BJP MLA Poornima Srinivas, daughter of former Congress minister late A Krishnappa, who switched loyalty to Congress.

    Chikkaballapur BJP MP B N Bachegowda’s son and independent MLA Sharath Bachegowda has been given Hoskote seat, putting an end to speculation of minister MTB Nagaraj’s retreat to Congress.

    Candidates for Yeshwanthpur and KR Pete have not been announced as Congress is still expecting ministers ST Somashekar and Narayanagowda to join the party at the last minute.

    AICC president Mallikarjun Kharge’s ‘Man Friday’ and MLC UB Venkatesh (Basavanagudi), former minister AK Subbaiah’s son AS Ponnanna (Virajpet), Leader of Opposition in the Council BK Hariprasad’s nephew Rakshith Shivaram (Belthangady), former CM BS Yediyurappa’s aides UB Banakar (Hirekerur) and RSS man KS Kirankumar (Chikkanayakanahalli) have made it to the list. Eight Muslims figure in the list, including Iqbal Hussain HA (Ramanagara), Tanveer Sait (Narasimharaja), UT Khader (Mangaluru), and BZ Zameer Ahmed Khan (Chamrajpet).

  • Cough syrup seized in Raiganj, three people arrested

    Cough syrup seized in Raiganj, three people arrested

    Police in Raiganj seized 4,000 bottles of cough syrup on Friday while the consignment was allegedly being smuggled into Bangladesh.

    “The cough syrup bottles were on the way to Malda and were supposed to be sent to Bangladesh. Three persons have been arrested,” said a police source.

    The police said they had intercepted a pickup van on NH12 in the Shilpinagar area of Raiganj after receiving a tip-off.

    As the vehicle was searched, packages of syrup bottles were found in sacks.

    “The sacks containing the bottles were concealed under bags stuffed with potatoes. Those were loaded in Bihar and were on the way to Kaliachak of Malda,” said the police source.

    The arrested were Mohammad Isha, Wahid Sheikh and Senaul Haque. All of them are residents of Kaliachak.

    BSF personnel posted at Hili I border outpost on the Bangladesh border in South Dinajpur intercepted Surajit Barman, a resident of Dakshinpara village, and seized around 300 bottles of cough syrup.

    The bottles were supposed to be smuggled into Bangladesh.

    Later, he was handed over to the Hili police station.

  • Huge boil in Himachal over Rahul Gandhi’s sentence, Congress started protests across the state

    Huge boil in Himachal over Rahul Gandhi’s sentence, Congress started protests across the state

    mandi . There is tremendous uproar in Himachal against the verdict in the defamation case against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi. Congress has started demonstrations across the state. In this episode, the Congress, under the leadership of senior Congress leader and former minister Kaul Singh Thakur, staged a protest in Mandi town, while the Block Congress Committee Sundernagar staged a sit-in outside the SDM office.

    During this Congress leaders said that Rahul Gandhi is fighting the battle of truth and truth always wins. He said that the State Congress Party is standing with Rahul Gandhi and the fight for justice against injustice will continue.

    Demonstration of Congress workers against the sentence of Rahul Gandhi, cursing the central government

    Paonta Sahib. On Friday, Congress leaders and workers held a big demonstration in Paonta to protest against the punishment of Congress MP Rahul Gandhi from the court. The Congressmen demonstrated by taking out a rally from the rest house to the rest house via Paonta Bazar. During this, everyone raised slogans against the Modi government and cursed Rahul Gandhi for implicating him in a false case. During this, Kirnesh Jung said that the Modi government has implicated Rahul Gandhi in a false case. He said that Modi has also made many comments against the Congress leader many times in his speech, no action has been taken against him. Hundreds of Congress workers were present during this.

  • Congress will run ‘Khula Darbar’ program to redress public grievances instead of ‘Jan Manch’: CM

    Congress will run ‘Khula Darbar’ program to redress public grievances instead of ‘Jan Manch’: CM

    Shimla. Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu on Wednesday said that the Congress government has decided to replace BJP’s flagship program ‘Jan Manch’ with a new Jan Grievance Scheme to reach the doorsteps of common people. CM Sukhu gave this information in response to a question by Congress member Yadvinder Goma during the question hour during the budget session of the state assembly. Rejecting the demand for continuation of the Jan Manch program launched by the BJP in 2018, the Chief Minister said his government did not need to learn from the previous government how to run an efficient scheme to reach out to the common people.

    Rejecting the constant interference of Leader of Opposition in the Assembly, Jairam Thakur, the Chief Minister said that the former Chief Minister was pressurizing the present government to continue with its old scheme Jan Manch, but the BJP government was no longer in power and the Congress government was taking forward their plans. not inclined to increase. Earlier, in response to a question, Rural Development Minister Anirudh Singh said that the previous government spent Rs 534.38 lakh on the Janmanch scheme. He said that the Congress government would run an ‘open court’ program to listen to public grievances and redress them.

    Earlier, opposing the answer given by the Chief Minister, all the MLAs of the opposition party reached the middle of the House and started protesting against this decision. The opposition took part in the proceedings of the House after the Question Hour. Jairam Thakur said that the Congress government should take forward this flagship program in public interest. He said that the concerned minister has also agreed in his reply that 43,821 public interest problems were resolved in Jan Manch. Accusing the present government of playing politics, Jairam Thakur said that people were wandering from door to door seeking solution to their problems as no such program was available in the State.

  • Congress won because of our mis-management, Churah MLA said during the discussion on the budget in the assembly

    Congress won because of our mis-management, Churah MLA said during the discussion on the budget in the assembly

    Shimla: Hansraj, MLA from Churah constituency, said that Congress did not get majority, but it was our mismanagement. The government has come to power, but it is not known even after five years. Congress has gained power by giving guarantees like OPS, 1500 to women. He said that during the assembly elections, he had given the slogan that ‘Congress is not a fraud, Himachal Bachao is the only chance’, this thing seems to be proving true today. Giving OPS is a good thing, but in order to please lakhs of people, the government has done unrighteousness with 70 to 80 lakh people. Along with this, he also said that no money is going to come from the Central Government for OPS, because the Central Government has already made it clear that the states which have restored OPS, it will be difficult for them to handle the economic situation.

    Himachal moving towards green state

    Sudhir Sharma of Congress said that Chief Minister Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu has taken care of every section in the budget. This is the first time in this budget that any state within the country is moving towards becoming a green state. He said that in the budget, the Chief Minister has brought a policy for electric vehicles. Rest of the states will also follow this and only Himachal will be named. He said that youth will be linked with self-employment in the field of solar energy and it is mentioned in the budget. He also suggested land pooling for this, so that everyone can get benefits.

  • Congress to announce first list with 100 names today

    Congress to announce first list with 100 names today

    MYSURU: KPCC president DK Shivakumar said here on Tuesday that Congress will release its first list with the names of 100 candidates on Wednesday.

    Shivakumar, who visited Adi Chunchanagiri with his family and offered puja to Lord Byraveshwara, said the Congress central screening committee had finalised the list, but had decided to release it after Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s visit to Belagavi.

    On the confusion over Opposition leader Siddaramaiah contesting from Kolar, Shivakumar said Siddaramaiah is free to contest from Kolar, Varuna, Chamundeshwari and Badami and is free to choose his constituency.

    Asked about the pressure mounting on Bengaluru Rural MP and his brother DK Suresh to contest from Ramanagara, Shivakumar said Suresh wants to continue as a Member of Parliament. He said they will ensure that the Congress candidate wins in Ramanagara. The constituency is high profile as JDS has finalised the candidature of party senior leader HD Kumaraswamy’s son Nikhil Gowda from there.

    On the controversy surrounding Urigowda and Nanjegowda, who were assumed to have killed Mysuru ruler Tipu Sultan, he said the AdiChunchanagiri seer has advised BJP leaders against promoting falsehoods. Shivakumar said Urigowda and Nanjegowda should not be included in school textbooks. “Have Ashwath Narayan (higher education minister) and CT Ravi (BJP national general secretary) read about it in school, he asked.

  • Kolar conundrum poses more problems than solutions for Congress in Karnataka

    Kolar conundrum poses more problems than solutions for Congress in Karnataka

    MYSURU: The Congress high command’s strategy of withdrawing Opposition leader Siddaramaiah from the contest in Kolar to avoid a possible defeat seems to have caused more trouble than finding a solution to the Grand Old Party in the run-up to the Assembly elections.

    It is likely that even before a formal announcement of seats is made, rumours will spread about the high command not fielding Siddaramaiah from Kolar which will affect the prospects of Siddaramaiah as well as aspiring party candidates from Kolar and neighbouring Chikkaballapur districts.

    Within a day of the rumour that party senior leader Rahul Gandhi asked Siddaramaiah not to contest from Kolar and to choose a safe seat like Varuna, it has had an effect on the image of the Congress Legislature Party leader. But there has been pressure on the party to field Siddaramaiah from both Kolar and Varuna.

    For the party, it has been a bitter development, demoralising the rank and file, who were gearing up to take on JDS and BJP. Many councillors, panchayat presidents and activists who joined Congress from other parties extending support to Siddaramaiah too have been left disheartened.

    It has also led to cracks in Siddaramaiaha’s long-standing friendship with other leaders, including Ramesh Kumar, Nazeer Ahmad, Srinivasa Gowda and Krishne Byre Gowda, who had influenced him to contest from Kolar. Their hope was to cash in on the success of the KC Valley project that has changed the landscape of the drought-hit Kolar district

    Disputing an internal survey report that has expressed apprehensions over Siddaramaiah’s chances of victory in Kolar, former MLA Sudhakar said the situation is favourable and Siddaramaiah will win by a big margin. Siddaramaiah backing out of Kolar will have horrible consequences in five-six constituencies and will demoralise the cadres, who had high expectations of seeing development in both Kolar and Chikkaballapur districts, he added.

    Thousands of cadres are now planning a massive protest in front of Siddaramaiah’s house, wanting to know why he should withdraw when they are working on the ground.

    Opposition parties have seized the issue by branding Siddaramaiah a political coward running away from the contest to avoid defeat. Many insiders too feel that it has inflicted irreparable damage to his stature with four decades of colourful political history. They observed that a psychological advantage has been handed over to opposition parties.

    On Monday, all eyes were on Belagavi, where Siddaramaiah was to speak to Rahul and the AICC president on the emotions of the party cadres from Kolar and Chikkaballapur districts and to go ahead and contest from Kolar. The Ahinda leader had also assured his followers that he has an open mind on contesting from any seat and will not bow to his rivals within the party.

  • Congress promises Rs 3,000 allowance to unemployed graduates in Karnataka

    Congress promises Rs 3,000 allowance to unemployed graduates in Karnataka

    Bengaluru | Congress made a big announcement in Karnataka on Monday. Senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said Rs 3,000 allowance will be given to unemployed graduates in Karnataka if voted to power. Addressing the Yuva Kranti Sammelan in Belagavi on Monday, Rahul Gandhi also announced an allowance of Rs 1,500 for unemployed diploma holders. The allowance will be provided for two years. He said, the Congress government will provide 10 lakh jobs in the state.

    Rahul Gandhi further said that his party’s government in Karnataka will also fill 2.50 lakh vacant posts which are lying vacant.

    Rahul Gandhi said, during the Bharat Jodo Yatra, women have put forward their sufferings. Under the Griha Laxmi Yojana, every woman householder will get Rs 2,000 as promised allowance and 10 kg rice will be given free of cost to poor families. Under the Griha Jyoti Yojana, the Congress party has decided to provide 200 units of free electricity to every household.

    Rahul Gandhi said, the government should complete the process of increasing reservation for scheduled castes from 15 to 17 percent and for tribes from three to seven percent. We should unite to fight against the corrupt BJP and throw out the BJP government. I will come wherever you say. We all should defeat BJP.

    Rahul Gandhi recalled the Bharat Jodo Yatra and thanked the people of Karnataka for their unprecedented support. This country belongs to all, he insisted. It is not of one or two persons. The country belongs to farmers, youth and poor.

    Rahul Gandhi said that the PM has not responded to the letters written about 40 per cent commission and corruption in Karnataka. The government had defended the MLA when his son was caught red-handed and Rs 8 crore recovered in connection with the Karnataka Soap and Detergent Limited (KSDL) scam.

    He said that there is a scam in the recruitment of PSI, Associate Professor, Assistant Engineer. Lakhs of youths are complaining about this.

    –IANS