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Dakshina Kannada: High voter turnout will be a good news for BJP, claims Kateel

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April 17, 2019

Mangaluru, Apr 17: If Dakshina Kannada registers a high turnout of voters in April 18 Lok Sabha polls, it will work in favour of BJP, according to incumbent MP Nalin Kumar Kateel, who is seeking reelection for the third consecutive term.

Addressing a press conference at the party’s election office before winding up his public campaign yesterday, Mr Kateel said that he was expecting a good turnout of voters for polling.

Expressing confidence on achieving a hat-trick of victories by defeating Youth Congress leader Mithun Rai, the MP said that people of the constituency will bless him once again as they not only want him but also want to see Narendra Modi as their prime minister once again. The recent visit of Mr. Modi to Mangaluru has boosted the spirit of the party workers further, he said.

Hee said that when he faced the election for the first time in 2009 he was new to voters but party workers knew him. Then, the BJP was in power in the State and among the eight Assembly segments in Dakshina Kannada, the BJP and the Congress shared four seats each, he said.

He could connect to the voters through the party workers. Mr. Kateel said that when he faced the last Lok Sabha election in 2014 the BJP had won only one Assembly segment, that is Sullia, leaving the remaining seven to the Congress. There was an undercurrent of “Modi wave” in the constituency. The Page Pramukhs of the party took the lead with the party workers in the campaign. Now, in this election.

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June 27,2020

Mangaluru, Jun 29: As many as 49 fresh covid-19 cases were reported in Dakshina Kannada district in past 24 hours taking the district’s tally to 568.

At the same time 38 persons were also discharged from the hospital after complete recovery from covid 19.

Out of the 49 positive cases, 14 persons had returned from Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Qatar. 17 persons had contracted the disease from patient number 9590. 3 persons are suffering from an influenza-like illness (ILI), and 4 persons are suffering from Severe Acute Respiratory Infection.

The health officials are tracing the contacts of six others. All the 49 persons have been shifted to hospital for treatment. Most of them are said to be asymptomatic.

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March 7,2020

Belagavi, Mar 7: Karnataka Urban Development Minister B A Basavaraj on Saturday said that government would a take decision very soon regarding conducting city corporations election in the state.

Speaking with the media after review meeting at Belagavi city corporation (BCC) here he further said that delimitation exercise of the wards has to be done followed by reservations.

The minister stated that discussions would be held with Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa and would arrive at a decision to conduct the election in about a month’s time.

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June 15,2020

The Centre’s step-motherly attitude towards Kannadigas stranded in the Gulf countries in general and Saudi Arabia in particular has prompted the Kannadigas to resort social media campaign once again.

A couple of weeks ago, Twitterati had launched a campaigned to bring back Kannadidags stranded in Saudi Arabia. A variation of the hashtag #SaudiKannadigasNeedFlights trended today. 

Trend Setters India, which has taken the twitter campaign initiative, had urged the Kannadigas around the world to join the twitter storm at 4 p.m. IST on June 15, to exert pressure on the authorities concerned. Around 7 p.m. the hashtag began trending with thousands of tweets.

Millions of Kannadigas are working in Middle Eastern countries like Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates. They contribute greatly to the Indian economy.

Even though government of India has launched Vande Bharat Mission for the repatriation of Indians stranded across the world, it has operated only a few flights from Saudi Arabia to Karnataka so far. Thousands of Kannadigas including pregnant women, elderly people, those who have lost jobs and those who need emergency medical care are still waiting for repatriation flights from Saudi Arabia to Mangaluru and Bengaluru.
 

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