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Let’s go to polls if you can’t settle portfolios: BJP top brass to BSY

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August 24, 2019

Bengaluru, Aug 24: Amidst growing dissidence among ministry aspirant BJP MLAs over Cabinet expansion in Karnataka, the party high top brass reportedly warned chief minister B S Yediyurappa to be ready for polls if he failed to settle portfolios.

“The central leadership has made it clear to Yediyurappa that he should contain all dissident activities immediately and sort out the issues of allocation of portfolios. If the problems persist for long, it is better to dissolve the Assembly and go in for polls,” a senior party leader was quoted as saying by a local newspaper.

“Since polls to Maharashtra, Haryana and Jharkhand Assemblies are likely to be held in October-November, the party leaders said Karnataka too can go to polls at the same time if the state leaders failed to run the government smoothly,” said the leader.

Yediyurappa, who rushed to Delhi on Thursday hoping to meet BJP president Amit Shah and working president J P Nadda to discuss portfolio allocation, did not get an appointment with either of the leaders despite his repeated requests.

The BJP top brass is learnt to have communicated to the CM that all internal problems should be resolved at the state level without delay. Yediyurappa was also told that party leaders in Delhi, who are learnt to be upset with the bad press the BJP government in Karnataka is getting over the dissent after Cabinet expansion and delay in allocating portfolios, don’t like to hear complaints from the state unit.

Yediyurappa, his son B Y Vijayendra and newly sown in Minister C N Aswathnarayan, held a marathon discussion with some disqualified MLAs for the whole day on Friday at an undisclosed location.

At the meeting, it is learnt that eight rebel leaders, who were camping in Delhi for the past two days, refused to budge from their earlier demand for plum portfolios if they are inducted into the Cabinet after the Supreme Court overturns their disqualification.

Yediyurappa, who returned to Karnataka Bhavan in the evening after the meeting, left for Bengaluru without speaking to the media.

Rebel leaders were also learnt to have been upset with Yediyurappa for not taking them to meet Amit Shah. They also expressed their unhappiness over the induction of Laxman Savadi. The BJP is said to have assured 12 of the 17 disqualified MLAs that they will be inducted into the Cabinet if the Supreme Court decided in their favour.

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Kannadiga
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Saturday, 24 Aug 2019

Sir,

 

Don't try to fool the Kannadiga's and don't waste our tax money for your one side EVM hack election result. Let the majority party to form government till next term. 

If not agree then go for a fare and cLear non controversial ballot polling system.

 

 

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May 9,2020

Bengaluru, May 9: The bar owners in Karnataka, while welcoming the state government's decision to allow takeaway sales of liquor, said that the move is not going to benefit them much.

Venkatesh Babu, a Bengaluru-based bar owner said, "We welcome this move, our bar was closed for two months due to coronavirus crisis. We have been facing losses since then."

"The state government has told us to sell our stocks at maximum retail price (MRP). It is difficult for us to manage as the rent is high and we also have to pay salaries," he added.

The owner of Pingara Bar and Restaurant, Shivamogga said, "The government has said that is for parcel only and that too at MRP. There is no benefit to our business. We are only clearing the existing stock. They have given us time till May 17 and are not even giving us fresh stock. We are only allowed to sell what we have already."

Karnataka government in its Friday order allowed restaurants, pubs and bars to sell liquor at retail prices from May 9 till May 17, the day the third phase of lockdown is slated to end.

Earlier, the government had allowed the opening of liquor shops in order to mobilise revenue.

However, bars, pubs, restaurants were ordered to remain closed amid the COVID-19 lockdown.

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February 25,2020

Bengaluru, Feb 25: A smooth-talking ‘swamiji’ has come under police radar after a widow lodged a complaint stating he cheated her of over Rs 27 crore and three kgs of gold between 2016 and 2019.

The woman, Geetha of Ramamurthynagar, was staying with her three sons after her husband, a landlord, died in 2009. Her family owned several sites in Tavarekere and other parts of the city, apart from a farm near Bethamangala in Kolar district.

Geetha, who had got into property disputes with her relatives, said she was introduced to the accused, Nagaraj C of Bangarapet, who claimed to possess powers to ward off evil spirits, by one of her farm labourers. “I was assured that all my problems would be solved. He came to my house and claimed he had been sent by god and would find solutions to all my problems,” she stated.

Nagaraj allegedly pretended to be possessed by spirits and directed her to give him gold bars. Geetha ended up giving three kgs of gold in the process. Later, he began directing her to sell a few properties stating these were the root cause of her problems. “I sold many properties and pledged a few residential sites. He took Rs 22.5 crore that came from selling properties, apart from Rs 5 crore cash from my husband’s savings,” she stated.

She said Nagaraj took the money from her on the promise of buying alternative properties. “When I demanded he return all my money, he threatened to kill me and my kids using evil spirits,” she alleged.

Police have registered a case of cheating, criminal conspiracy, criminal intimidation under various IPC sections and Karnataka Prevention and Eradication of Inhuman Evil Practices and Black Magic Bill, 2017, against Nagaraj and others.

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July 31,2020

Bengaluru, Jul 31: The Karnataka government on Wednesday put on hold a controversial proposal to drop certain chapters, including on Islam, Christianity, Tipu Sultan and his father Hyder Ali, from social science textbooks to reduce the 2020-21 syllabi for students in classes 1-10.

Citing the COVID-19 pandemic and the disruption caused to the academic calendar of the year, the government had earlier dropped the chapter on Tipu Sultan and Hyder Ali from the Class 7 social science textbook, saying chapters on Tipu Sultan have been retained in the Class 6 and 10 textbooks.

The move did not go down well with the opposition, which saw certain ulterior motives behind the decision.

Apparently under sharp criticism, the Department of Public Instruction issued a new notification on Wednesday "on the directions of the Karnataka Primary and Secondary Education Minister S Suresh Kumar".

There is a delay in opening the schools during the academic year 2020-21 due to COVID-19 pandemic, said the latest order.

In this context, the order said, chapters were dropped to fit in 120 days of the academic year for classes 1 to 10 and the same was published in the department's website.

"However, on the directions of the Minister for Primary and Secondary Education, the decision to drop certain chapters has been put on hold. A review will be done following which the deleted chapters will be uploaded in the website," the order read.

Earlier in the day, Mr Kumar had issued a statement, saying that the decision to truncate the syllabus has not been finalised yet. He also made it clear that his department would not remove chapters unnecessarily.

Former chief minister and Congress leader Siddaramaiah had attacked the government on the issue.

"The government, which has failed to control the spread of coronavirus, is using it as an opportunity to push its clandestine agenda of saffronising the textbooks," Siddaramaiah tweeted.

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