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Congress wants me to contest from Bengaluru: Sumalatha

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March 1, 2019

Mandya, Mar 1: Sumalatha Ambareesh lambasted Congress leaders on Thursday, claiming some of them are an “obstacle” in her path to contest the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections from Mandya constituency on a Congress ticket. Sumalatha, wife of actor-politician MH Ambareesh, also claimed that some Congress leaders are dissuading her from contesting even as an independent.

Following a tour of Mandya district during which she met Congress leaders from the district including veteran politicians G Madegowda, HD Chowdaiah and MS Atmananda and party workers, Sumalatha, without naming anyone, said she is being pressured to contest from a constituency in Bengaluru.

“I am being pressurized to give up my husband’s constituency,” she said. “I have been given options to contest parliamentary polls from any constituency in Bengaluru. Why should I give up Mandya just because it should be given to JD(S) as per a seat-sharing formula?”

Suggesting she could stand as an independent, Sumalatha said she will honour the sentiments of people and not “any decision of the Congress party”.

“I have been receiving a positive response from people with regard to my candidature,” Sumalatha said. “If a situation arises where I have to choose between the Congress party’s decision that forbids me from contesting or people’s sentiments that I contest, surely I will choose people’s sentiments.”

G Madegowda assured Sumalatha that he should ask the party high command to give her the ticket as Ambareesh had contributed much to the Congress party. However, he told her that if the party ticket is not given to her and if she contests as an independent or a candidate of another party, “he will not support her since he is a true Congressman”.

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April 17,2020

Udupi, Apr 17: The city police on Friday caught a boy who created chaos near Aadi Udupi by throwing fake currency notes on road and fled afterwards.

This boy had thrown fake currency notes on the streets of Vadiraja Nagara near Krishna Mutt.

Few localities had collected the notes and reported this to police.

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June 29,2020

Bengaluru, June 29: The Karnataka government on Monday issued guidelines to conduct online classes for all students of ICSE, CBSE and SSLC under the directions of the High Court.

According to the guidelines, for the kindergarten students, online classes can be held 30 minutes a week and students in classes 1-5 will have online classes for 30-45 minutes divided into two periods for three alternate days every week.

For students in classes 6-8, the online classes will be for 30-45 minutes divided into two periods for five days every week while students in classes 9 and 10 can have the virtual classes for 30-45 minutes divided into four periods for five days a week.

Earlier, the state government barred online classes for the kids from LKG to class 5.

Minister for primary and secondary education S Suresh Kumar had said that online classes cannot be held for the kids from LKG to class V.

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May 10,2020

Gadag, May 9: It is the month of April, and the season of mangoes is very much here. However, the mango farmers of Gadag are suffering huge losses amid the coronavirus lockdown due to the absence of transportation facilities along with several other issues that have been impacting their business adversely.

Speaking to media persons, Vishwanath Odugowdar, a mango farmer said, "Due to transportation problems we are not being able to export mangoes to different countries. We are trying to sell them in nearby markets."

"We are not in a situation to pack, transport and export the mangoes to different countries as we did earlier especially 
when it comes to Alphonso mangoes which is one of the most loved varieties. So, we are packing mangoes at our place. Somehow this year we have got very good quality of mangoes," he added.

Farmers here are incurring huge losses as mandis and markets across the country are shut while the transport of Alphonso mangoes has also come to a halt owing to the lockdown.

The small and medium scale farmers in places like Gadag, Dharwad, Bagalkote in north Karnataka have started packing the mangoes themselves in their farms in a bid to sell the fruit themselves.

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