2018 game plan: Ambitious Eshwarappa holds meeting with Dalit, OBC?leaders

August 14, 2016

Bengaluru, Aug 14: Senior BJP?leader K?S?Eshwarappa, who recently had created a storm by trying to revive the Sangolli Rayanna Brigade of the Kuruba community, has now held a meeting with Dalit and OBC?leaders in the city.

eshu The move is seen as a game plan by Eshwarappa to emerge as an Ahinda leader (Kannada acronym for minorities, backward classes and dalits) to consolidate his position in the party ahead of 2018 Assembly polls in Karnataka. He is indirectly challenging the style of functioning of state BJP?president B?S?Yeddyurappa.

On Saturday, he went a step further and held a meeting with leaders of the brigade at his office in the Vidhana Soudha. It was held to coincide with the executive committee meeting of the party's Bengaluru urban unit. A full-fledged office is provided to Eshwarappa in the Vidhana Soudha in his capacity as Leader of the Opposition of the Legislative Council. He was not an invitee for the party's meeting.

Eshwarappa said OBC?and dalit leaders were leaning towards the BJP and he was only providing them a platform to express their views.

“The Congress had considered OBC and dalits as their ancestral property and used them as its vote bank,” Eshwarappa told reporters. However, he said he was not going to use the BJP banner for holding Ahinda meetings.

“I cannot use the party banner because religious leaders will hesitate to associate with a political party. Not less than 35 seers are supporting my efforts. Finally, my exercise will help the BJP,” he added.

He claimed that those leaders who had supported Siddaramaiah to emerge as an Ahinda leader were now supporting him.

Asked whether he was trying to challenge the leadership of Yeddyurappa, Eshwarappa said, “Yeddyurappa is our leader. I have no intention of emerging as a rebel leader.” He said he would attend the core committee meeting convened by Yeddyurappa on August 16.

The Sangolli Rayanna Brigade is planning to launch an enrolment drive soon and hold conventions across the state.

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Cheddis are losing grounds with their evil acts on society... People know their deception. Fox in sheeps skin is an old tactics which will work only with the chamchas... and licking dogs who run after the money and kursi. People know their evil plans ... if eshwarapa is true then he should invite their dalit people to their temple to EAT along with them.

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Bar owners welcome Karnataka govt's move to allow pubs, bars , restaurants to sell liquor

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May 9,2020

Bengaluru, May 9: The bar owners in Karnataka, while welcoming the state government's decision to allow takeaway sales of liquor, said that the move is not going to benefit them much.

Venkatesh Babu, a Bengaluru-based bar owner said, "We welcome this move, our bar was closed for two months due to coronavirus crisis. We have been facing losses since then."

"The state government has told us to sell our stocks at maximum retail price (MRP). It is difficult for us to manage as the rent is high and we also have to pay salaries," he added.

The owner of Pingara Bar and Restaurant, Shivamogga said, "The government has said that is for parcel only and that too at MRP. There is no benefit to our business. We are only clearing the existing stock. They have given us time till May 17 and are not even giving us fresh stock. We are only allowed to sell what we have already."

Karnataka government in its Friday order allowed restaurants, pubs and bars to sell liquor at retail prices from May 9 till May 17, the day the third phase of lockdown is slated to end.

Earlier, the government had allowed the opening of liquor shops in order to mobilise revenue.

However, bars, pubs, restaurants were ordered to remain closed amid the COVID-19 lockdown.

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All MP Cong MLAs who are in Bengaluru will go back to save govt: DKS

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March 11,2020

Bengaluru, Mar 11: Amid the prevailing political uncertainty in Madhya Pradesh with Jyotiraditya Scindia's exit, Congress leader DK Shivakumar on Wednesday asserted that "leaders may come and go but no one can destroy Congress."

"No one can destroy Congress. Leaders may come, leaders may go, that doesn't make any difference," said Shivakumar while speaking to news agency on the current political scenario for Congress in Madhya Pradesh.

Speaking about the Madhya Pradesh Congress MLAs, who are lodged in Bengaluru, he said: "All the Madhya Pradesh MLAs who are here do not want to lose their membership. I am sure they will understand, go back and save the government."

On Tuesday, Congress sent two of its leaders -- Sajjan Singh Verma and Govind Singh -- to Bengaluru in order to pacify some of the rebel MLAs who are lodged in a hotel there and who claimed to have resigned from the state Legislative Assembly.

After meeting with 19 party MLAs who have tendered their resignations, Congress leader Sajjan Singh Verma on Wednesday said they are neither willing to support Jyotiraditya Scindia nor in favour of joining BJP as they were "misled and taken to Bengaluru" in Karnataka.

"Nobody is ready to go with Scindia ji. They said they were misled and taken to Bengaluru, most of them said they are not ready to join BJP," Verma told ANI on being asked about the 19 MLAs.

"I just came from Bengaluru and now I am going to Jaipur. Besides 5-6 ministers and one MLA, we all are going to Jaipur. They (MLAs) have said they have the blood of Congress and they will remain in the party. Since Scindia was a senior party leader, all our MLAs followed his order as a courtesy," he said.

The Congress leader further claimed that BJP is using both "muscle and money power" to influence Congress MLAs.

He also claimed that he is strongly in contact with 7-8 BJP MLAs.

Most of the rebel MLAs are perceived close to Scindia and are apparently unhappy at Scindia being "ignored" in the party. The grand old party has been witnessing an internal turf war in Madhya Pradesh since the party formed the government in the state in 2018.

Scindia is likely to join BJP later today.

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