Congress trying to divide Hindus and win more seats: Yeddyurappa

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April 17, 2019

Shivamogga, Apr 17: Former chief minister and BJP state president BS Yeddyurappa on Tuesday claimed that the Congress is ready to stoop to any level to win the elections and it is trying to divide Hindus to improve its voting percentage and Lok Sabha seats in the state.

Speaking to reporters here on Tuesday, he stated that the Congress policy will boomerang on that party in the Lok Sabha election.

“Congress is trying to sow the poisonous seed of separate religion for Lingayats again. It didn't learn any lessons from the assembly election defeat,” he said.

He also alleged that chief minister H D Kumaraswamy is crying in public events to cheat the voters and emotionally blackmail them. “This is the worst-ever government I have ever seen,” he said.

He expressed confidence that after the Lok Sabha election, he will get another golden opportunity to form the government.

He also stated that there is nothing political in I-T raids in the state. “The fact is that the JD(S) is using the contractors to distribute money to the voters. Now they are facing a problem,” he said.

BY Vijayendra, younger son of Yeddyurappa, who was present at that time, stated that Yeddyurappa will never retire from the politics.

“He is active in the state politics for the past three to four decades. His service is very much required for the state. So he will be active in the state politics for some more time,” he said.

Vijayendra also took a dig at chief minister Kumaraswamy for using tears as a weapon to blackmail the voters.

“I think henceforth he needs to keep on crying as the Mandya voters will teach him a good lesson,” he said.

“Annana Notu-Akkange Vote (Note of CM Kumaraswamy-Vote for Sumalatha) has become very popular across the Mandya. Mandya people will teach a good lesson to the Gowda family's politics,” he said.

He alleged that in the past nine months, a few contractors close to CM Kumaraswamy amassed huge wealth.

A few minutes before the take-off, officials of an election flying squad stopped the helicopter of Yeddyurappa and carried out inspection. The officers checked the bags kept inside the chopter.

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April 1,2020

Bengaluru, Apr 1: The price of petrol and diesel will go up by Rs 1.60 and Rs 1.59 per litre, respectively, from Wednesday. This is in line with Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa’s decision to hike the rate of tax on petrol from 32% to 35% and diesel from 21% to 24%.

He had announced this in his March 5 Budget for 2020-21 fiscal. At present, a litre of petrol costs Rs 71.97 and diesel Rs 64.41 in Bengaluru.

The government decided to roll out the hike from Tuesday midnight going into Wednesday, April 1, after briefly considering a postponement in view of the COVID-19 crisis. 

Finance Secretary (Budget & Resources) Ekroop Caur confirmed to DH that the hike will be rolled out. 

The 3% hike on fuel tax was a key resource mobilisation measure that Yediyurappa announced in his Budget. The hike is expected to fetch the government Rs 1,500 crore. 

Yediyurappa had also announced a 6% additional excise duty on Indian Made Liquor (IML), which could help the government mop up Rs 1,200 crore. However, the sale of liquor has been prohibited during the lockdown period. Plus, hiking fuel prices during the lockdown will not hit citizens very hard. 

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May 25,2020

Bengaluru, May 25: With the reporting of 93 more fresh cases of COVID-19, the total number of pandemic cases were surged to 2182 in Karnataka on Monday.

According to official sources, highest number of new cases of COVID-19 pandemic, were reported from Udupi (32), Kalaburagi (16), Yadagiri (15), Bengaluru Urban (08), Dakshina Kannada (04) in the last 24-hours in the state.

The fresh cases were also reported form Mandya, Belagavi, Ramanagara, Vijayapura, Kolara, Ballari and Dharwada district.

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July 16,2020

Byndoor, Jul 16: Byndoor Police Station in Kundapur taluk of Udupi District, has been sealed for the second time in a month, after three personnel including an ASI were tested positive for Covid-19 on Thursday.

All the three including a lady Home Guard have been admitted to the designated Covid Hospital.

Last month the Station was sealed after staff had tested positive.

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