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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
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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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January 10,2020

Bengaluru, Jan 10: Working President of Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee, Eashwar Khandre on Friday said that his party has extended its support to the demand made by the former chief minister of Karnataka, HD Kumaraswamy, that a House Committee should be formed to probe into Mangaluru violence.

Emphasising the need for a judicial probe into the incident, Khandre said, "Congress has always said that the truth should prevail and that there should be a judicial inquiry and investigation by a sitting Supreme Court judge or a High Court judge into the incident."

"We support his (HD Kumaraswamy) statement that a House Committee should be set up to probe into the incident of Mangaluru violence. Two innocent people lost their lives during the anti-CAA protest, it is very unfortunate," he added.

Two people were killed in Mangaluru in the alleged police firing after protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act turned violent on December 19.

The Act grants Indian citizenship to refugees from Hindu, Christian, Sikh, Buddhist and Parsi communities fleeing religious persecution from Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh who entered India on or before 31, 2014.

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January 1,2020

Belgaum, Jan 1: Police detained a group of around eight people who were allegedly trying to hoist 'Uttara Karnataka flag' in Hire Bagewadi area here on Wednesday.

This comes amid tensions between Karnataka and neighbouring Maharashtra over the border issue with protests on both sides, which have also led to the cancellation of bus services between the two states.

Protesters in Belagavi burnt an effigy of Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, following which Shiv Sena workers had launched a protest near the Kolhapur bus stand on Sunday, and burnt an effigy of Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa.

The long-standing border dispute between the two states over is pending before the Supreme Court for several years.

On December 7, Thackeray had chaired a high-level meeting over the border dispute between two states. It was decided in the meeting that attempts will be made to get fast track hearing in Supreme Court on the issue.

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January 25,2020

Mangaluru, Jan 25: Hotelier Samtappa reportedly committed suicide by consuming poison in Kadaba taluk in the district on police said on Saturday.

The deceased was running a hotel named Hotel Samtappa here.

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