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BM Farookh tastes defeat again as 28 JD(S) MLAs boycott polls, 7 rebels cross-vote

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March 23, 2018

Bengaluru, Mar 23: Business magnet and JD(S) chief general secretary B M Farooq, who had tasted defeat in 2016 Rajya Sabha polls from Karnataka thanks to the cross voting by party rebels, today got only two votes!

When JD(S) state president and Assembly floor leader H.D. Kumarswamy realized that his party’s candidate cannot win the polls, he decided to boycott the elections. By the time two of the 37 JD(S) MLAs had cast their vote.

A total of 28 JD(S) MLAs boycotted the elections after a heated argument with the Returning Officer who had allowed Congress MLA and former Minister Baburao Chinchansur and Revenue Minister Kagodu Thimmappa to vote again with a second ballot paper.

Remaining seven suspended JD(S) MLAs violated the whip and cross voted to facilitate the victory of the third candidate fielded by the Congress.

Among the four other candidates in the fray, Rajeev Chandrasekhar of the BJP got the highest number of votes (50). Congress candidates — G.C. Chandrashekar got 46 votes, L. Hanumanthaiah 44 and Naseer Hussain got 42 votes. Interestingly, among the Congress candidates, the third candidate, Chandrashekar, secured the highest votes.

Following heated arguments, voting was suspended for some time. Based on the JD(S) petition, the Election Commission of India replaced Mr. Murthy and appointed M.S. Kumaraswmay as the Retuning Officer. Mr. Kumarawamy is the Joint Secretary of the State Legislative Assembly.

Four votes were declared invalid. Votes cast in the second ballot paper by Mr. Chinchansur and Mr. Thimmappa and those of two other legislators were declared invalid as they marked the ballot paper wrongly.

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Ilyas bin abdullah
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Friday, 23 Mar 2018

The Gowda father-son combination never tried seriously to get elected Farooq Bhai to Rajya sabha. In 2016 and now they knew that BMF will never reach the end point, because their tangrams proved only gimmicks. If big Gowda tried seriously in congress high command level definitely there would have been good result. It is just hushups, they really wants Farooq Bhai beside them in state politics to serve their needs.

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August 2,2020

Mangaluru/Udupi, Aug 2: The twin coastal districts of Dakshina Kannada and Udupi witnessed sporadic movement of vehicles and relatively less commercial activities today in spite of the withdrawal of ‘Sunday lockdown’ by the state government. 

After the central government announced guidelines under Unlock 3.0, the Karnataka government has removed the complete lockdown concept on Sundays and done away with the night curfews too. So from today (August 2), there will be no lockdown on Sundays.

KSRTC operated its buses as usually. However, compared to other days, today the number of private and city buses on the roads in Dakshina Kannada was limited. 

In Udupi, city buses remained off the roads as the number of passengers was less. However, KSRTC and NARM buses were seen transporting passengers.

In containment zones ban on movement of people will continue till August 31 in Udupi. The Santhekatte market used to function on Saturdays, as there was Sunday lockdown on earlier Sundays. Now the market will be open on Sundays only.

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February 5,2020

Tumakuru, Feb 5: Former Lokayukta Justice N Santhosh Hegde has questioned the integrity of the B S Yediyurappa led BJP government as it has not taken an action to abolish the Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) to re-establish the Lokayukta in Karnataka.

Speaking after felicitating the retired scientist of NASA Gopal Iyengar at the Karnataka Public School at Kadaba in Gubbi taluk he reminded that the BJP had promised to establish the Lokayukta.

"No party will like to strengthen the Lokayukta and now BSY is also tightlipped and even put an end by appreciating that ACB has been doing a good job", he regretted.

In fact, the Lokayakuta had the power to prosecute even the top brass of officials and now the ACB cannot without the government's permission, he clarified.

He denied any remarks on the CAA and NRC but observed that the youths of the country have been misguided by the politicians as they lost their focus on education by involving in protest rallies.

"I suggest they to straight away take a political plunge instead of getting misused at the hands of the politicians with selfish motives", he said.

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July 21,2020

Mangaluru, Jul 21: Muslims in coastal Karnataka will celebrate the Eid al-Adha on July 31, confirmed Islamic

Twaka Ahmed Musliyar, Qadhi of Managluru, has made this announcement following the crescent moon sighting in region. 

Today was the last day of Dhu al Qaeda and tomorrow (Wednesday, July 22) will be the first day of the month Dhu al Hijja.

The Eid al Adha always falls on the 10th day of Dhu al Hijja.

In most of the middle eastern countries including Saudi Arabia too Eid will be celebrated on the same day.

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