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Cong to appoint 70K booth-level agents to reach out to voters

DHNS
July 22, 2017

Bengaluru, Jul 22: Close on the heels of the BJP launching the Vistaarak programme, the state Congress on Friday came out with an elaborate plan to strengthen the party at the booth-level in the run-up to the next Assembly elections.

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The Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) has decided to appoint 70,000 booth-level agents covering all the 224 Assembly constituencies in order to spread the party’s message. The agents will not only educate people on the achievements of the party government in the state, but also give feedback to the party on what people think about their elected representatives. The party has put a KPCC vice-president and two general secretaries in charge of each of the 30 districts and they have been tasked with the responsibility of appointing the booth-level agents.

The Congress’ effort is aimed at countering the BJP, which recently launched the Vistaarak programme, wherein the party workers will directly interact with people at booth-level. The Vistaarak programme is said to have yielded good results for the saffron party in Uttar Pradesh, where it registered a thumping victory in the Assembly polls a few months ago.

Briefing reporters after attending the first meeting of the newly appointed KPCC office-bearers, state Congress president G Parameshwara said booth-level agents will be appointed by August-end.

The agents will visit every household and interact with people. The first round of door-to-door interaction will be completed by the end of September. The booth-level agents will commence the second round of interaction in December this year.

The party will also organise a padayatra in all the Assembly constituencies with the slogan “Congress nadige marali janara kadege” in October and November, he added.

This apart, the party will organise public rallies across the state to mark the birth centenary of former prime minister Indira Gandhi. Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi will attend a rally scheduled to be held on August 4 at Raichur.

The office-bearers’ meeting was chaired by AICC general secretary in charge of Karnataka K C Venugopal. Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and many senior Congress leaders, including former Union minister Oscar Fernandes, attended the meeting.

No early polls: CM

Chief Minister Siddaramaiah told the KPCC office-bearers that the Assembly elections will not be advanced, as claimed by the Opposition parties. The elections will be held either in March or April next year. They will not be advanced. The BJP leaders are trying to create confusion as they have become jittery, he said.

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The saffron party leaders have not been able to find fault with the government, which has fulfilled all the promises made to the people in the past four years. The BJP did nothing during its rule in the state. Now, it is staging a drama by visiting Dalit homes. The newly appointed office-bearers should counter the BJP by educating people about the achievements of his government, Siddaramaiah said.

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May 22,2020
Bengaluru, May 22: Evacuation planes from Male in Maldives and Doha in Qatar landed in Bengaluru with returnees from Karnataka after they were stranded for two months due to suspension of international flights since March 23 and the extended lockdown, an official said on Friday.
 
"An Air-India flight (#0266) with 152 passengers from Male and its subsidiary Express flight (IX-0822) with 177 returnees and 5 infants from Doha landed here safely at 6.50 pm. and 9.05 pm respectively," an airline official told media persons in Bengaluru.
 
Both the flights are first from their respective countries to Bengaluru, bringing in returnees to the southern state in the second phase of the Vande Bharat mission, being carried out to evacuate Indians stranded the world over.
 
"As per the standard operating procedure and guidelines of the state health department, all the passengers were screened with thermal device and tested to ensure they were asymptomatic before leaving the airport," a nodal officer said.
 
The returnees were given a spare mask to wear all the time and a sanitiser to wash their hands.
 
"The luggage of all passengers was screened and disinfected before handing over to them after they completed formalities such as filling the self-declaration form and downloading of the Quarantine App for contact tracing later,” said the official.
 
The passengers were ferried from the airport in state-run buses in batches for 14-day institutional quarantine in hotels and resorts across the city.
 
The flights were the 6th and 7th flights to Karnataka, of the national carrier and its Express arm, which are operating the service to repatriate thousands of Indians, including distressed workers, migrants, students, senior citizens and tourists, stranded overseas.
 
Five flights have flown about 650 returnees till date from May 18-21 under the mission's second phase to Bengaluru and Mangaluru on the west coast. The passengers have been brought from Dubai in the UAE, Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, Muscat in Oman, Dammam in Saudi Arabia and San Francisco in the US.
 
The remaining flights to Karnataka will land in Bengaluru and Mangaluru over the next 12 days till June 3 from 9-10 more destinations the world over.
 
In the first phase of the mission from May 7-17, the airline and its arm flew 6 flights to the state from May 11-15, bringing in 800 passengers, including 623 to Bengaluru and 177 to Mangaluru from London, Singapore, San Francisco and Dubai.

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June 6,2020

Belagavi, Jun 6: Suspecting that cow meat was being transported to Goa, unidentified persons set goods vehicle on fire near Karle village in Belagavi taluk last night.

The Incident came to the fore on Saturday morning.

Usually, vehicles carrying vegetables, milk and other essentials being transported to Goa and other towns plying via Karle village near Belagavi.

Sources said that for the past few days vehicles carrying meat were stopped and were handed over to police by section of activists suspecting it to be cow meat.

Persons who set the vehicle on fire were yet to be identified. Jurisdictional Belagavi Rural police have rushed to the spot. More details were awaited.

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January 22,2020

Kochi, Jan 22: Rail passengers from Kerala are a happy lot as the state’s traditional food items such as appam and eggcurry, puttu and kadala curry have found their way back to the revised menu of the Railways in the wake of protests over reports that they were replaced by north indian delicacies.

The popular Kerala dishes were reinstated to the list following social media backlash over the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation’s reported decision to replace the favorite cuisine of Malayalis from its menu with north Indian dishes such as Kachori and Chole Bhature.

Ernakulam MP Hibi Eden, who had shot off a letter to Railway Minister Piyush Goyal raising the issue of alleged discrimination against Keralites, got an assurance from the IRCTC officials that popular items, including snacks such as unniyappam and sukhiyan will be served through its outlets in the state.

Eden said the IRCTC officials who visited him at his home on Wednesday morning have presented him with the list of delicacies to be served by its local vendors in Kerala. In his letter to the minister, the MP had stated that dishes which are very important to Malayalis for breakfast such as appam, egg curry, porotta, dosa, steam cake (puttu) were excluded along with snacks such as banana fry (pazham pori), kozhukkatta, unniyappam, neyyappam and sukhiyan.  He had also raised the issue of hike in price of food items.

According to him, price of meals has been increased from RS 35 to 70 and that ofsnacks such as vada from Rs 8 to 15.  While the price of vada has not been reduced, the fare of snack meal like parotta, chappathi, idiyappam, appam and puttu with kadala curry or egg curry will be served at Rs 50.  According to IRCTC, a passenger will have to shell out Rs 20 for unniyappam/sukhiyan/neyyappam, 2 numbers each.  Informing Goyal of the changes in menu, he said Malayalis are discriminated in trains and railway refreshment rooms by the food which is the right of every passenger.

He had sought urgent intervention of the Minister and speedy action in the matter.

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