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Keep criminals and EVMs away from 2019 Lok Sabha polls: SDPI

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July 4, 2018

Bengaluru, Jul 4: The Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) has asked the Election Commission to take necessary steps to keep Electronic Voting Machines and candidates with criminal background away from the 2019 Lok Sabha polls in India.

Addressing a press meet here today, Elyas Muhammad, the newly elected state president of the organization, said that the country should go back to ballot system to ensure free and fair polls as the EVMs are highly vulnerable and can be manipulated.

He gave the details of the ‘State Representative Council’ meeting held in Mysuru on July 1 and 2 wherein new office bearers and members of state committee were elected.

Following are the resolutions passed by SDPI state representative council:

Those with clean image only should become parliamentarians

Political parties are in look out for candidates for the looming Lok Sabha elections. About 25% of the present public representatives have various criminal cases against them. Supreme Court has warned that criminals shouldn’t become public representatives and that the criminal cases against them be disposed of at the earliest.

Certain politicians are busy raising the issues pertaining to religion, caste, language and border aiming at creating a rift among the citizenry. Politicians are indulged in land mafia, sand mafia, mining mafia and several other corrupt practices. The candidates who would be contesting in the Parliamentary elections should be of clean hands, honest and of good character.

They have looted the taxpayers’ money and have allegations of corruption. Some politicians are seen showing their stand of being communal and spreading hate. No political party should field any such candidates in the upcoming Parliamentary election. Particularly BJP, Congress and JD(S) should keenly consider towards this subject as more number of elected Parliamentarians are from these three political parties.

Those who can safeguard our land’s language, culture, resources and work towards the development of the state and its citizenry irrespective of their religion, caste and language and can bring maximum schemes and grants from the central government to the state should become Parliamentarians.

People should take up the responsibility of creating pressure enabling the candidates to pay importance towards the welfare of the people rather than their parties.

In this regard, SDPI has been holding pro-people struggles for the past 9 years.

Have control over education mafia

Karnataka has earned accolades from across the world in the education field. From Nursery to Higher education fields, students from other states and foreign countries too are carrying out their studies contributing a special share towards the state’s economy.

But the exploitation harassment by private deemed universities, higher educational institutions, convent and English medium schools is increasing day by day. Mysterious and unnatural deaths of students inside campuses and hostels, menace of huge donations, fake certificates, lack of basic amenities, rampant religious/casteist discrimination, educational institutions under the ownership of politicians, violation of departmental rules and with such other issues the education system is very perturbed and is lurching.

The state government should take initiative and restructure and reform the government educational institutions of their shortcomings. All students, including those coming for studies from out of the states and foreign countries should get superior education.

EVMs should not be used in elections in future

Electronic Voting Machines should not be used in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, assembly elections and Karnataka local body elections.

There have been serious allegations against the use of EVM as the machines are highly vulnerable to tampering and that there are several cases against the use of EVMs in different High Courts and the Supreme Court. In the recently concluded assembly elections in Karnataka, a dozen cases have been filed against EVM with the High Court.

We hereby urge the Election Commission and Central Government to return to the traditional Ballot system of voting as the justified and fair election is what our Constitution guarantees us in upholding the democracy.

Government should hold census prior to budget

Social, economic and religion wise data census should be revealed immediately. It should be carried out before the Chief Minister presents the new budget as crores taxpayers’ money is spent for it. There has been pressure from the general public for Census since decades. Accomplishment of Census and its disclosure earlier will ease the release of subsidies and schemes to the benefit of socially, economically and deprived classes and ensure that the facilities and grants would reach state’s all communities equally aiming their overall development. The Census carried out in the state could be an example to the country. SDPI urges for immediate disclosure of the Census and fulfil the demand.

The new government should disclose the caste and economic census carried out by the Karnataka government before the budget is presented.

The socio-economic and educational census of the people of Karnataka has been prepared by spending huge taxpayers’ money and with an investment of a lot of human resources. Then what’s really the purpose of carrying out the said Census?

With the socio-economic and educational survey, this Census would be of help plan and present the budget based on the socio-economic conditions of the people thus ensuring that the people get thee social justice.

The newly elected Karnataka state committee of SDPI is as follows:

President: Elyas Muhammad Thumbe

Vice Presidents: Devanooru Puttananjayya, Abdul Majeed Mysuru

General Secretaries: Abdul Hannan Ramanagar, Mohammad Riyaz Farangipet

Secretaries: Akram Hassan Ullal, Alfonso Franco Belthangady, Afsar Kodlipet, Ashraf Machar

Treasurer: Javed Azam Bengaluru

Members: Abdul Lathif Puttur, Abdul Rahim Patel Gulbarga, Abdul Jaleel Krishnapura, Mujahid Pasha, Adv. Abdul Majeed Khan Puttur, Abrar Ahmad Chamrajnagara, Kumaraswamy Mysuru, Amjad Khan Mysore, Fayaz Ahmad Bangalore, Amin Mohsin Madikeri, Mohammad Samiulla Bengaluru.

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sharief Mangalore
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Wednesday, 4 Jul 2018

Mkae balance with all communities,  Get some Dalit Hindus and Christians.

 

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April 2,2020

The Ayodhya police booked a senior journalist on Wednesday for raising questions on Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's visit to the Ram Janmabhoomi for a religious ceremony amid the lockdown over the novel coronavirus pandemic.

The FIR mentions a tweet by Siddharth Varadarajan, editor of news portal 'The Wire', where he said: "On the day the Tablighi Jamaat event was held, Adityanath insisted a large Ram Navami fair planned for Ayodhya from March 25 to April 2 would proceed as usual and that 'Lord Ram would protect devotees from the coronavirus."

Varadarajan had clarified in another tweet that it was "Acharya Paramhans, Hindutva stalwart and head of the official Ayodhya temple trust, who said Ram would protect devotees from coronavirus, and not Adityanath, though he allowed a public event on 25/3 in defiance of the lockdown and took part himself".

Taking the suo-motu cognizance, Faizabad Kotwali police station incharge Nitish Kumar Shrivastava registered an FIR under sections 188 (disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant) and 505(2) (statements conducing to public mischief) of the Indian Penal Code for doing "disreputable" comment against the chief minister.

Statement by the Founding Editors of The Wire: pic.twitter.com/frw5oRxw18

— The Wire (@thewire_in) April 1, 2020
Reacting to it, Varadarajan termed the FIR "politically motivated, saying that the offences invoked were not even remotely made out.

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March 10,2020

Bengaluru, Mar 10: Techies living in a Whitefield apartment block where the city's first Coronavirus patient was residing have been asked to work from home.

The Karnataka government is in touch with the heads of IT and ITES companies, some of which are said to have asked their staff to work from home.

Deputy Chief Minister Dr C Ashwath Narayan, who also holds the IT and BT Portfolio, said the government had directed the companies to explore giving their employees the work-from-home option.

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July 28,2020

Hounde, Jul 28: Coronavirus and its restrictions are pushing already hungry communities over the edge, killing an estimated 10,000 more young children a month as meager farms are cut off from markets and villages are isolated from food and medical aid, the United Nations warned Monday.

In the call to action shared with The Associated Press ahead of publication, four UN agencies warned that growing malnutrition would have long-term consequences, transforming individual tragedies into a generational catastrophe.

Hunger is already stalking Haboue Solange Boue, an infant from Burkina Faso who lost half her former body weight of 5.5 pounds (2.5 kilograms) in just a month. Coronavirus restrictions closed the markets, and her family sold fewer vegetables. Her mother was too malnourished to nurse.

“My child,” Danssanin Lanizou whispered, choking back tears as she unwrapped a blanket to reveal her baby's protruding ribs.

More than 550,000 additional children each month are being struck by what is called wasting, according to the UN — malnutrition that manifests in spindly limbs and distended bellies. Over a year, that's up 6.7 million from last year's total of 47 million. Wasting and stunting can permanently damage children physically and mentally.

“The food security effects of the COVID crisis are going to reflect many years from now,” said Dr. Francesco Branca, the WHO head of nutrition. “There is going to be a societal effect.”

From Latin America to South Asia to sub-Saharan Africa, more poor families than ever are staring down a future without enough food.

In April, World Food Program head David Beasley warned that the coronavirus economy would cause global famines “of biblical proportions” this year. There are different stages of what is known as food insecurity; famine is officially declared when, along with other measures, 30% of the population suffers from wasting.

The World Food Program estimated in February that one Venezuelan in three was already going hungry, as inflation rendered salaries nearly worthless and forced millions to flee abroad. Then the virus arrived.

“Every day we receive a malnourished child,” said Dr. Francisco Nieto, who works in a hospital in the border state of Tachira.

In May, Nieto recalled, after two months of quarantine, 18-month-old twins arrived with bodies bloated from malnutrition. The children's mother was jobless and living with her own mother. She told the doctor she fed them only a simple drink made with boiled bananas.

“Not even a cracker? Some chicken?” he asked.

“Nothing,” the children's grandmother responded. By the time the doctor saw them, it was too late: One boy died eight days later.

The leaders of four international agencies — the World Health Organization, UNICEF, the World Food Program and the Food and Agriculture Organization — have called for at least dollar 2.4 billion immediately to address global hunger.

But even more than lack of money, restrictions on movement have prevented families from seeking treatment, said Victor Aguayo, the head of UNICEF's nutrition program.

“By having schools closed, by having primary health care services disrupted, by having nutritional programs dysfunctional, we are also creating harm,” Aguayo said. He cited as an example the near-global suspension of Vitamin A supplements, which are a crucial way to bolster developing immune systems.

In Afghanistan, movement restrictions prevent families from bringing their malnourished children to hospitals for food and aid just when they need it most. The Indira Gandhi hospital in the capital, Kabul, has seen only three or four malnourished children, said specialist Nematullah Amiri. Last year, there were 10 times as many.

Because the children don't come in, there's no way to know for certain the scale of the problem, but a recent study by Johns Hopkins University indicated an additional 13,000 Afghans younger than 5 could die.

Afghanistan is now in a red zone of hunger, with severe childhood malnutrition spiking from 690,000 in January to 780,000 — a 13% increase, according to UNICEF.

In Yemen, restrictions on movement have blocked aid distribution, along with the stalling of salaries and price hikes. The Arab world's poorest country is suffering further from a fall in remittances and a drop in funding from humanitarian agencies.

Yemen is now on the brink of famine, according to the Famine Early Warning Systems Network, which uses surveys, satellite data and weather mapping to pinpoint places most in need.

Some of the worst hunger still occurs in sub-Saharan Africa. In Sudan, 9.6 million people live from one meal to the next — a 65% increase from the same time last year.

Lockdowns across Sudanese provinces, as around the world, have dried up work and incomes for millions. With inflation hitting 136%, prices for basic goods have more than tripled.

“It has never been easy but now we are starving, eating grass, weeds, just plants from the earth,” said Ibrahim Youssef, director of the Kalma camp for internally displaced people in war-ravaged south Darfur.

Adam Haroun, an official in the Krinding camp in west Darfur, recorded nine deaths linked with malnutrition, otherwise a rare occurrence, over the past two months — five newborns and four older adults, he said.

Before the pandemic and lockdown, the Abdullah family ate three meals a day, sometimes with bread, or they'd add butter to porridge. Now they are down to just one meal of “millet porridge” — water mixed with grain. Zakaria Yehia Abdullah, a farmer now at Krinding, said the hunger is showing “in my children's faces.”

“I don't have the basics I need to survive,” said the 67-year-old, who who hasn't worked the fields since April. “That means the 10 people counting on me can't survive either.”

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