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Bypolls to 3 assembly constituencies in Karnataka on February 13

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January 13, 2016

Bengaluru, Jan 13: The bypolls to three assembly constituencies in Karnataka on February 13 will have political parties on their toes, with Hebbal in Bengaluru being the hotly contested one.

bypollThe Election Commission has announced bypoll dates to Hebbal, Bidar and Deodurg (in Raichur district). Polling will be on February 13 and counting of votes on February 16. Of these three, the BJP held two seats and the Congress one.

The vacancies were caused following the death of A Venkatesh Naik, who represented Deodurg, in the Bengaluru-Nanded train accident in August 2015, while Gurupadappa Nagamarapally from Bidar and R Jagadeesh Kumar from Hebbal, died due to a cardiac arrest. Hebbal, with a little over 2 lakh voters, has many from the Congress eyeing the ticket. A new constituency carved out during delimitation in 2008, it has been the BJP's domain since then. Congress sources said there are at least a dozen contenders, including three MLCs.

Congress MLCs HM Revanna, Byrathi Suresh and RV Venkatesh are lobbying for the ticket. While Revanna had a long innings till June 2020 in the council, he was a serious contender for the seat in the 2013 assembly polls.The ticket was given to Congress veteran CK Jaffer Sharief 's grandson Rahman Sharief, who lost by 5,036 votes.

The tenure of Suresh and Venkatesh in the council will end in June 2016. Suresh, who is the cousin of Congress MLA Byrathi Basavaraj, won the council seat from the legislative assembly defeating the party's official candidate Iqbal Ahmed Saradgi. He was the JD(S) sponsored candidate and upset the calculations of all parties by bagging the highest number of votes due to cross-voting.

Sources said the Congress leadership may opt for a Muslim candidate and this narrows the choice to state youth Congress president Rizwan Arshad and Sharief 's grandson. Arshad was asked to make way for Rahman Sharief in 2013. With the constituency having roughly 65,000 Muslim voters, the chances of the party giving the ticket to a Muslim, considering there was none in the recently concluded polls to 25 seats to the council from the local authorities' constituencies, are high.

The Bengaluru Karavali Samudaya, an association of people from the coastal region settled in the city , want the ticket to be given to Ravi Shankar Shetty who lost out from the same constituency in 2008. The ticket was given to Revanna, who lost to BJP's Katta Subramanya Naidu.

Meanwhile, the BJP is considering to give the ticket to Kumar's wife as it plans to cash in on the sympathy factor. Naidu is said to have asked the ticket for his daughter-in-law as he is facing court cases on land denotification.

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January 5,2020

Bengaluru, Jan 5: Former Deputy Chief Minister G Parameshwara has said the Karnataka Congress has unanimously decided to appeal to the party high command regarding the appointment of KPCC President and Congress Legislature Party (CLP) leader in the state.

Speaking to reporters, the Congress leader said, "We have decided to gather the opinion of senior leaders regarding the selection of Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) president and opposition leaders. We will appeal to the high command regarding the same. The party will decide its next course of action."

He made these remarks after a meeting of senior party leaders was held at Parameshwara's residence here on Saturday.

Adding that the Congress leaders discussed the current political scenario in the state, Parameshwara said: "We held a meeting to reiterate that we are not confused and we all are together."

"There has been no personal discussion on who should be the president," he said.

Earlier, KPCC president Dinesh Gundu Rao and former Chief Minister Siddaramaiah had tendered resignation from their respective posts owning moral responsibility for the party's poor performance in the recent by-polls.

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June 30,2020

Udupi, June 30: A girl who appeared for SSLC exams in three subjects tested positive for COVID-19 in Kundapur taluk of Udupi district today.

Sheshashayana Karinja, Deputy Director of Public Instruction (DDPI) said that the 15-year-old girl had a headache and her parents took her for testing and she had tested positive for COVID-19.

She will appear for the remaining three subjects during the supplementary exams in August.

The room where the girl appeared for the exam had been sanitised. But exams would not be held in that room. All precautions have been taken in that exam centre in Kundapur taluk, Mr. Karinja said.

The other 19 students will be allowed to write their exams as there was a distance of one metre between them and there was no contact between the students during the exams, Mr. Karinja added.

It is learned that a couple of months ago, a Mumbai returnee who recovered from COVID-19 had visited the girl’s house. However, it is not clear that she got an infection from the Mumbai returnee.

It could be recalled here that a student from Hejamadi in Udupi district who was preparing for the Science exam had tested positive two days back and she is currently being treated at a hospital.

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January 21,2020

Mysuru, Jan 21: South Indian actor Rashmika Mandanna, whose house was raided recently by IT sleuths, appeared for an inquiry along with her father Mr Madan Mandanna, here on Tuesday.

She arrived at the office of Principal Commissioner for IT, at Nazarbad, in the city. She was accompanied by nine persons, including auditors and accountants, who carried two backpacks and a kitbag.

Mr Madan mandanna said, "the IT officials have sought some documents and we are here to submit them."

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