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Ahead of budget, Karnataka CM removes disgruntled Cong MLA Dr Umesh Jadhav from post

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February 8, 2019

Bengaluru, Feb 8: Ahead of the state budget, Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy on Friday morning removed disgruntled Congress MLA Dr Umesh Jadhav from the post of the chairman of the Warehouse Corporation. Pratap Gowda Patil will be replacing Jadhav.

Meanwhile, Congress MLA from Raichur Basanagouda Daddal has been appointed as the chairman of Maharshi Valmiki Scheduled Tribes Development Board, news agency ANI reported.

The development comes a day after seven MLAs from Congress and three from Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), skipped the Assembly’s budget session. The seven Congress MLAs include Dr Umesh Jadhav, Dr Sudhakar, Ramesh Jarkiholi, Mahesh Kumathalli, BC Patil, Nagendra B, and JN Ganesh.

On Thursday, the BJP legislators disrupted the state Assembly, claiming that the Congress-JDS coalition government no longer has a majority. The saffron party, has, however, not planned to move a no-confidence motion or meet Governor Vajubhai Wala to disqualify the coalition government as yet.

To pacify the rebellious MLAs, Congress has reportedly called its legislature party meeting today, while the party leadership has expressed confidence that all its legislators will be present for the budget.

Congress and Janata Dal-Secular (JDS), which have 80 and 37 MLAs respectively in the 224-member Assembly, have been at the loggerheads ever since they formed the coalition government in Karnataka in May last year. The absence of Congress MLAs from the first and second day of this year budget session has fuelled the speculation of resentment between both the parties.

Earlier, former Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah accused BJP of horse-trading, claiming that the party offered more than Rs 30 crore to lure Congress MLAs.

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March 23,2020

Bengaluru, Mar 23: Karnataka Home Minister Basavaraj Bommai had warned those who chose to defy the lockdown order clamped in nine districts, to prevent the spread of the dreaded COVID-19 virus in the state. 

Speaking to newsmen, he said, "We have ordered for a lockdown in nine districts in the state to prevent the spread of the coronavirus and issued guidelines to follow it."

The nine COVID-19-affected districts are Bengaluru, Bengaluru Rural, Mysuru, Kodagu, Dakshina Kannada (Mangaluru), Dharwad, Belagavi, Kalaburgi and Chikkablapur.

According to Mr. Bommai, the State government will put in place further measures next week depending on how the situation will unfold in the State and the neighbouring States.

"Government offices will be operational in the State, including in the nine COVID 19-affected districts. As per the current schedule, the legislature sessions will also continue. Pourakarmikas will be working at 50% strength," he added.

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May 5,2020

Dubai, May 5: Saudi Arabian prosecutors have ordered the arrest of a Saudi citizen for insulting an Asian expatriate and abusing him for not embracing Islam.

A video went viral online showing the expat, apparently with little knowledge of the Arabic language, being insulated by an Arabic-speaking man who does not appear in the clip, for having not embraced Islam and for not fasting.

A monitoring centre affiliated with the public prosecution examined the video the content of which “shows the citizen’s use of abusive words against the Asian resident on the pretext of inviting him to Islam,” the prosecution source said.

“The public prosecution closely follows up whatever infringes rights of citizens and residents including harm to their dignity and legal rights regardless of pretexts of such infringement,” the source added.

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February 29,2020

Udupi, Feb 29: Senior Congress leader and Udupi’s crackers trader K Krishnaraja Saralaya allegedly committed suicide by jumping into a well outside his house at Paniyadi on Saturday.

He was 87, Krishnaraja was leading a solitary life. It is suspected that he ended his life ''due to mental agony''.

He is survived by two daughters. One is settled in Australia another is in Bengaluru. Saralaya had also served as President of Udupi Town Co-operative Society. The police visited the spot .

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