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Blow to BJP: After resigning as MLA, Anand Singh joins Cong with 300 supporters

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January 31, 2018

Ballari, Jan 31: In a blow to Bharatiya Janata Party and Reddy brothers, former minister B S Anand Singh, who had recently resigned as an MLA, on Wednesday joined the Congress party along with 300 supporters.

The Congress is learnt to have assured Singh to give the ticket to contest the coming elections from Vijayanagara constituency in Ballari district.

State Congress president G Parameshwara formally inducted Singh into the party. Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, KPCC working presidents, Dinesh Gundu Rao and S R Patil, were also present on the occasion.

Singh, who was a close associate of the Ballari Reddy brothers of the BJP, had distanced himself from the saffron party after Tipu Sultan Jayanti celebrations a few months ago.

Anand Singh, quoting internal differences between him and the district unit, had submitted his resignation letter in person to Speaker K.B. Koliwad at the latter’s residence.

To express their solidarity with their leader, office-bearers of the taluk unit of the BJP and other sub units, including the party’s Scheduled Tribes Morcha and women’s wing, among others, also tendered their resignation. 

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Bantwal, Jan 11: Seven people were booked for organising protest without taking permission or intimation, police said on Saturday.

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They have been booked for allegedly organising protest outside Nandavar Juma Masjid on Jan 10 afternoon without intimation to police or obtaining permission.

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January 27,2020

Mangaluru, Jan 27: JD(S) leader and former Labour Minister K Amarnath Shetty passed away at a private hospital in Mangaluru on Monday morning. He was 80. Shetty was unwell for sometime, and was admitted to the hospital a few days ago, family sources said.

Amarnath Shetty, a trustee of Alva's Education Foundation (AEF), had joined politics in 1965.

He became the president of Paladka Gram Panchayat and soon was elected as MLA from Moodbdri constituency in 1983. He won the successive elections held in the same constituency in 1987 and 1994. He had served as Tourism and later as Labour Minister.

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June 15,2020

Thiruvananthapuram, Jun 15: Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan''s daughter Veena married top DYFI All India president Mohammed Riaz at the chief minister''s official residence in the presence of selected guests.

Riaz and Veena became husband and wife at a solemn function held under Covid protocols with not more than 50 people present.

This was the second marriage for both, as their first ones ended in divorce.

Riaz has two children, while Veena has a son from their respective previous marriages.

Riaz is a lawyer by profession and had contested the Kozhikode Lok Sabha seat in 2009 but lost to the Congress'' M.K.Raghavan.

Veena runs her own software company in Bengaluru.

While the marriage has already been registered recently, the wedding event was a closed door affair, with just very close relatives of the couple besides a few senior party colleagues of Vijayan.

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