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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 7,2020

Bengaluru, Apr 7: Former Minister and Leader of the Opposition Siddaramiah on Tuesday termed the shutting by private clinics in the state by doctors as an 'inhuman act'.

Taking to micro-blogging site Twitter, the Congress leader said due to the fear of Novel Coronavirus, the doctors have closed their private clinics, which was against their profession.

This has affected the people, especially those, who are suffering from other deceases. He urged Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa to intervene and resolve the issue immediately.

Despite the government instructions not to close down their clinics, the doctors have not been responding positively, Mr Siddaramaiah noted.

In this connection, the government should act seriously and give necessary warning to the doctors, to either open their clinics to serve the people, or face action, he added.

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Media Release
February 14,2020

Veteran journalist P. Sainath has said that the nation is in a crisis. And this crisis is not limited to just the rural area. It has become a national crisis at various areas such as agriculture, education, economy, job creation etc.

He was delivering the endowment lecture on the topic ‘Indian democracy at the post-liberalization and post-truth era’ at Media Manthan 2020 organized by the PG department of journalism and mass communication at St Aloysius College (Autonomous). 

Mr Sainath said that the many policies adopted in the 90s led to India becoming unusually unequal. Referring to the speech Ambedkar had made at the Constituent Assembly while handing over the draft of the Constitution, Mr Sainath said, “Ambedkar had warned about the weakness of Indian democracy that liberty without equality allows the supremacy of a few over the multitude. Liberty, equality and fraternity must be kept together as we cannot have one without the other.” 

Mr Sainath stated that the agrarian crisis was no longer about the loss of productivity, employment or about farmer suicide; it was a societal, civilizational crisis. Commenting on the lopsided policies such as cow-slaughter ban, he explained how cow slaughter ban had adversely affected many industries due to their interdependency. While Muslims who slaughtered cows were rendered helpless, the cattle traders who were mostly OBCs lost their earnings as the cattle prices crashed. An important industry like Kolhapur sandals industry in Maharashtra went bankrupt as a result of the cow slaughter ban in Maharashtra. He said the policymakers had no idea how the rural industries were interconnected. Demonetisation too devastated the rural economy as 98 percent of rural transactions happen through cash. 

Mr Sainath also spoke about the crisis of inequality which affects the Dalits and the Adivasis far more than anyone else as 90 percent of the rural households take home less than Rs 10,000/- per month. “Women are yet another group whose labour is never counted in the gross domestic product. Women and girls globally do unpaid work which amounts to about 12.5 billion working hours per year. Monetarily speaking, this is worth 10.8 trillion dollars,” Mr Sainath added. 

Speaking about the crisis of jobs Mr Sainath said that major companies were laying off employees just to create more profits for the investors and the adoption of artificial intelligence in the industry would further destroy millions of jobs.

Rector of St Aloysius College Institutions Fr Dionysius Vaz SJ, Principal Dr (Fr) Praveen Martis SJ, HOD of Journalism and Mass Communication department Dr (Fr) Melwyn Pinto SJ were present.

‘Veerappan and Vijay Mallya’s business models are interesting!’

Addressing the gathering during his endowment lecture on Friday, Mr Sainath made an interesting comment on the so called ‘revenue model’. “Whenever I visit IIMs and IITs for lectures on my PARI project, the students there ask me what my revenue model for my project is. I tell them that I do not have a revenue model. In fact, journalism does not begin with a revenue model. Gandhiji, Ambedkar, Bhagat Singh were all great journalists. But they did not have a revenue model,” Mr Sainath said.

On a lighter note, he said that the best revenue model that he liked was that of forest brigand Veerappan and liquor baron Vijay Mallya. “Veerappan ruled the forest for forty years and from the top ministers to the villagers he could dictate terms and liver royally. Similarly, Mallya’s revenue model was to steal the banks and run away abroad and live like a king,” Mr Sainath added.

Journalism is not and can never be a business. It is a calling, he opined. While newspaper can be a business, television can be a business, journalism per se cannot be reduced to a business. “Unfortunately today, journalists are recruited on a contract basis and they have no bargaining power; and there are no unions to fight for their cause. Hence, they are at the mercy of the corporate media houses for their survival and are made to write stories that cannot be called journalism,” Mr Sainath said.

Answering a question as to the pressures he faced as a journalist, he said that external pressures from the government or others could be very well handled. It is the internal pressures from once own media house that journalists find it difficult to manage.

 

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February 25,2020

Belagavi, Feb 25: Left Parties will launch countrywide door-to-door campaign from March 1 to 23 against Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), National Population Register (NPR), National Register of Citizens (NRC), Communist Party of India (M) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury said on Tuesday.

Addressing a press conference here, he said that CPI (M) and other Left parties were participating in the awareness programme that will conclude on March 23, on the martyrdom day of Bhagat Singh, Chandrashekar and Rajguru.

"Till now 13 states have expressed their opposition for NRC and will not implement it, which means more than fifty per cent of country will not have it," he added.

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