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Dalit voters shift their loyalty to Saffron party in Karnataka

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May 25, 2019

Bengaluru, May 25: The voters belonging to the Scheduled Caste and Tribe, who were a traditionally supporters of the Congress seems to have shifted their loyalty in the 2019 Lok Sabha election to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and it was evident as all the seven seats reserved for SC/ST was won by Saffron party candidates in Karnataka.

The Congress which had won as many as five LS seats reserved for the SC/ST in the 2014 elections, drew blank in this election as all its candidates including former Union Ministers Mallikarjuna Kharge (Kalaburagi) and K H Muniyappa (Kolar) conceded their defeat to the BJP candidates Dr Umesh Jadhav and Muniswamy respectively.

The Congress also lost the reserved seats it had won in the 2014 LS election as its candidates Dhruvanarayana (Chamarajanagara), Chandrappa (Chitradurga), B V Naik (Raichur-ST) with a big margins to the respective BJP candidates.

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mangalorean
 - 
Sunday, 26 May 2019

Dalit deserve to be third class people and there blood will not change if you clean with pure water....

Ashraf
 - 
Saturday, 25 May 2019

SC/ST should go back to their ancestral period. Its The same party congress who helped to down trodden who dint had to visit to temples. Forget about temples.. they use to show coconut shell outside resturants for their food. They forgot all the good work of Indira gandhi.. now they should not forget.. what they are now its becuase of congress

 

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March 22,2020

Bengaluru, Mar 22: Monday's only pending II PU exam (English) and SSLC exams scheduled to start on March 27 have been postponed due to Covid-19 concerns. The new dates will be announced in April first week.

The decision was taken after a meeting with chief minister BS Yediyurappa on Sunday morning, said state primary and secondary education minister S Suresh Kumar.

Around 8.25 lakh students are to appear for the Class 10 exam.

"I appeal to SSLC students not to get frustrated. I know you're fully prepared, fully geared up. But this is a peculiar situation which calls for hard decisions. The new timetable will be published very soon. Students should treat is as an extended study leave. Please revise more. Do not treat this as a relaxation time. You'll have plenty of time to relax after the exams," he said.

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July 25,2020

Dharward, Jul 25: In a shocking incident, a man reportedly killed his wife and daughter by feeding them poison and ended his life by hanging in his house. The incident took place in Dharwad on Saturday. 

The deceased have been identified as Mounesh Pattar (36), his wife Arpita (28) and their four-year-old daughter Sukruta. 

Mounesh was working in a private company in Dharwad and was depressed from the last one week fearing job loss. 

It was alleged that he might lose his job as the management decided to remove more than 40 employees due to covid -19 lockdown.

On Friday late night, he reportedly gave poison to his wife and daughter and later committed suicide by hanging self. The incident came to light on Saturday morning.

A case is registered at Sub Urban police station and further investigation is on.

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July 7,2020

Puttur, Jul 7: A woman died after a wall of compound collapsed on her in Dakshina Kannada district on Tuesday, July 7. 

The victim was identified as Vasanti.

The wall got weakened due to heavy rain at Golithottu area in Puttur. Her body was sent to the post-mortem.

According to the police, the incident took place around 12.30pm when Vasanti was working in the backyard of her house.

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