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28-yr-old Tejasvi Surya defeats BK Hariprasad in Bengaluru South by 3.31 lakh margin

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May 23, 2019

Bengaluru, May 23: Tejasvi Surya, the Bharatiya Janata Party’s youngest candidate, won in the Bengaluru South constituency by a huge margin of 3,31,192 votes against Rajya Sabha MP and veteran Congress leader BK Hariprasad

With this the saffron party retained its bastion in Bengaluru. 28-year-old Tejasvi Surya secured 7,39,229 votes, while Billava stalwart BK Hariprasad won 4,08,037 votes.

The Bengaluru South seat has been considered a ‘safe seat’ for the BJP, as its voters had sent Union minister Ananth Kumar to the Lok Sabha six times. After his death last year, it was widely expected that his wife Tejaswini Ananth Kumar would be given the party’s ticket from the constituency.

The choice of Surya came as a surprise to many, including, it seems, the candidate himself, who posted a series of tweets that began with “OMG OMG!!! I can’t believe this”, after the news broke.

Surya, the general secretary of the BJP’s youth wing in Karnataka and part of its national social media campaign team for 2019, also got a lot of attention for many divisive, communal tweets that Twitter users dug out from his timeline.

In April, Surya got an injunction against 49 media outlets reporting anything that could be “defamatory” to him. The Karnataka high court later set aside this injunction.

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April 4,2020
Udupi, Apr 4: District Commissioner Jagadeesh has warned that the vehicles of people who break lockdown norms will be seized.
 
Addressing the media, he said, “People who want to buy essential items are allowed come out of the house between 1100 hrs and 1900 hrs, but we have noticed that some are unnecessarily coming out and blocking the roads. If this continues, vehicles of such people will be seized.”
 
No new COVID-19 positive cases were reported since Friday Udupi district.

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February 13,2020

Mangaluru, Feb 13: A college student was killed when a bullet tanker knocked his motorbike down near Nanthoor Circle in the city today. 

The deceased has been identified as Karthik Malya, a resident of Mannegudda. He was a final year degree student of Besant College in the city. 

The incident took place when Karthik was from Suratkal to Mangaluru. The bullet tanker reportedly hit the two-wheeler from behind and ran over him. He died on the spot.

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July 11,2020

Bengaluru, Jul 11: Karantaka Congress chief DK Shivakumar on Friday raised questions over claims that Rewa Ultra Mega Solar Power Project Madhya Pradesh was "largest in Asia" and said a 2000 MW had been built in the state.

"BJP central government is claiming today that it inaugurated Asia's largest solar plant of 750 MW at Rewa, MP. What then is the 2000 MW Solar Plant in Pavagada, Karnataka which was built in just 3 years by Karnataka Congress government and has been operational since 2018?" Shivakumar said in a tweet.

The Congress leader further said that the most unique thing about the solar project set up in Karnataka was that the farmers were being paid yearly rents for the land upon which it was constructed as it had been leased and not purchased from them, helping them retain ownership.

"The unique thing about the 2000 MW Pavagada Mega Solar Park was that not a single acre of land was acquired from the farmers. All 13,000 acres have been leased from the farmers who are being given yearly rent. Karnataka model of renewable energy was accepted as the best in India," he said.

"Union power minister must answer as to how the Central Government can claim that the Rewa Solar Park (750 MW) opened today is Asia's largest when clearly the Pavagada Park in Karnataka is much larger (2000 MW) and was opened two years back!" he said.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi dedicated Rewa Ultra Mega Solar Power Project to the nation on Friday. 

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