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Can Jayaprakash Hegde be JDS-Cong candidate from Udupi-Ckm in 2019?

coastaldigest.com web desk
December 8, 2018

Udupi, Dec 8: Speculations are rife in political circles that former minister K Jayaprakash Hegde, who is currently lodged in Bharatiya Janata Party, may migrate to Janata Dal (Secular), if the ruling party of Karnataka assures him of ticket from Udupi-Chikkamagaluru constituency in 2019 Lok Sabha polls.

Mr Hegde, who was elected to the parliament in 2012 bypoll to Udupi-Chikkamagaluru constituency as a Congress candidate, later lost the constituency to BJP’s Shobha Karandlaje in 2014 general polls.

He joined the saffron party in March 2017, almost one and a half year after he was expelled from the Congress for contesting the state legislative council polls as a rebel candidate. Prior to becoming an MP, he was elected thrice to the Karnataka Legislative Assembly from the Brahmavara constituency and served as minister holding various portfolios.

Sources say that Mr Hegde is not happy with the way BJP leaders treating him for past one and a half year. Though Mr Hegde, has not publicly expressed his dissatisfaction so far, sources say that he has been silently working towards taking a big step ahead of looming Lok Sabha polls.

On the other hand, chief minister H D Kumaraswamy, who wants to strengthen JD(S) in coastal Karnataka, is also reportedly considering to welcome Mr Hegede, who has a large number of supporters in the region.

JD(S) requires green signal from Congress before fielding any candidate in 2019 polls if the two parties formally enter a seat sharing agreement. Congress may face rebellion from its local leaders in Udupi and Chikkamagaluru districts if it allows JD(S) to field candidate in the constituency, where regional party is currently in third position after BJP and Congress.

If BJP agrees to field Mr Hegde from Udupi-Chikkamagaluru constituency, both Congress and JD(S) may face a tough challenge. However, political pundits believe that BJP may think twice before finalising candidate as it has to give priority to “original” Hindutva leaders over “migrants” to avoid rebellion within the party.

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Kannadiga
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Saturday, 8 Dec 2018

South Kanara not require such indecent multi tangue politicians. This fellow is misues our voting right.Keep on changing his colour like chameleon. 

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April 6,2020

Kasaragod, Apr 6: Even as the number of positive cases of Novel Coronovirus is on increase in this district, the ten-member medical team from Thiruvananthapuram on Monday will inspect and review modalities to convert the proposed Kasaragod medical college into a COVID-19 hospital.

Given the constraints being faced by the district hospital in Kanhangad near here, the 200-beded Kasaragod medical college hospital in Ukkinada near here would be equipped to cater to the Covid-19 patients on isolation.

The ten member medical experts who reached here late on Sunday, are on a special mission to immediately equip the hospital as to convert it as a Covid-19 centre.

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March 29,2020

Bengaluru, Mar 29: The State government launched a mobile application for people to track the movement history of patients, who tested positive, before their detection so that they can take precautions. The app will give the date and time of visit to spots by the patients.

The mobile app “Corona Watch” can be downloaded from Google Playstore https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ksrsac.drawshapefile

“The app also has a list of government designated first response hospitals for COVID-19 where citizen with symptoms can go. However, before going to a COVID hospital, people should call helplines — 104, 080-46848600 or 080-66692000,” said a message by Munish Moudgil, secretary, Administrative Reforms, who is also in-charge of the State COVID war room.

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June 10,2020

Bengaluru, Jun 10: The Karnataka government on Wednesday said coronavirus tests conducted in the state has crossed the four lakh mark, while the recovery rate remained at 44 per cent.

Sharing the daily COVID-19 bulletin on his Twitter handle, Medical Education Minister Dr K Sudhakar said till Tuesday 4,00,257 samples were tested in 71 COVID-19 testing labs across the state.

"Karnataka crossed 4 lakh tests mark on Tuesday. So far, we tested 4,00,257 samples in 71 #COVID19 testing labs across the state with a positivity rate of 1.4 per cent," he said.

He tweeted that the state's recovery rate remained healthy at 44 per cent with 2,605 discharges and 5,921 cumulative cases.

The minister said Karnataka was home to nearly a tenth of the total testing labs in India.

According to the Karnataka Health department, out of the four lakh odd samples tested, 3,87,027 samples were reported negative.

The total active cases in the state as on Tuesday evening were 3,248 whereas 66 people lost their lives to coronavirus so far.

Major contributors to the spike in COVID-19 cases in Karnataka are those who returned from Maharashtra recently.

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