Discontent over cabinet rejig intensifies; Jaffer Sharief backs disgruntled group

June 23, 2016

Bengaluru, June 23: Discontent today snowballed in the ruling Congress over Karnataka's major ministry revamp as disgruntled party legislators decided to meet shortly to plan their next course of action, keeping the option open of pressing for leadership change.

congA series of meetings were being held for the past two days by several dropped ministers and ministerial berth aspirants after Chief Minister Siddaramaiah carried out a major rejig on Sunday, sacking 14 ministers and inducting 13 others to burnish the party's image with two years left for Assembly polls.

"...we will meet on Sunday or Monday. We will all sit together, whatever decision is taken there, is final. Now we have gone one step ahead. To save the party, if leadership change is needed, we are ready for it," senior Congress MLA from Yadagiri Malka Reddy told reporters after a meeting.

"We will fight being within the party. First option is to see if there is any chance to strengthening the party without leadership change. First, we will give medicine, if things are not solved, we will be open for surgery," he added.

Another MLA from Afzalpur Mallikayya Guttedar, sulking over not being given a ministerial berth, said "we will decide whether leadership change is needed."

The state Congress leadership continued its efforts to douse dissidence, with newly-appointed Working President Dinesh Gundu Rao seeking to pacify key sacked ministers like Ambareesh and Srinivasa Prasad, who have openly questioned Chief Minister Siddaramaiah's action of dropping them.

After meeting Ambareesh and Prasad, Rao said, "...he (Ambareesh) has no resentment against the party. I feel he will come out of these things soon, his support is needed for the party."

Senior leaders like Prasad, Qamarul Islam, Ambareesh, Baburao Chinchansoor who were dropped from the Ministry have openly criticised Siddaramaiah.

Ambareesh has even resigned as MLA, which has not been accepted.

Ministerial aspirants like Guttedar, Malka Reddy, S T Somashekar and Rajshekar Patil among others have made open remarks against Siddaramaiah and Mallikarjuna Kharge (Congress Leader in Lok Sabha), whose son Priyank Kharge has managed to find a ministerial slot.

Somashekar has claimed that eight legislators were contemplating resigning their Assembly membership in protest.

Sources said party's state in-charge Digvijay Singh is expected to visit here soon in order to control the growing resentment within the party.

Siddaramaiah had carried out the reshuffle after the Congress High Command gave its clearance for the major rejig, seen as an attempt to improve the party's image to retain power in the next polls in the only major bastion under its control after losing power in several states, most recently in Assam.

Meanwhile, former union minister C K Jaffer Sharief, who met Ambareesh, extended his support to the disgruntled group. He told reporters that Siddaramaiah was responsible for the crisis the party is witnessing.

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SK
 - 
Thursday, 23 Jun 2016

As Ambarish said he is not a foot wear..... But ALL the politicians are worse than that.... The ministers should be rotated for every 2.5 years, so that others will get an opportunity to show their TALENT.... Cabinet is not their Father's property....Even Siddu has done BLUNDER by retaining other ministers like RAI..... these foot wears should be kicked out....like he changed his` car......

Abdullah
 - 
Thursday, 23 Jun 2016

This old buffalos should take rest and enjoy the rest of their life with family. How much money they want to earn???
And also they should give chance to youngsters.

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February 19,2020

Malappuram (Kerala), Feb 19:  children of a couple in a span of nine years has raised suspicion among police personnel here who have registered a case following a complaint after a three-month-old child of the family died on Tuesday and was buried.

Police exhumed the body, which was buried in the morning, and took it to the district hospital at Tirur for post-mortem.

The infant was the sixth child of the couple, police said.

"A case has been registered (for unnatural death) in the matter to verify the death beyond any suspicion raised by locals since five other children of the couple had died in the past nine years," a senior police official said.

The couple had three boys and three girls of which the third girl child lived till the age of four and the rest died before turning one.

"The post-mortem will take place today itself.We are collecting the medical records of the children who had passed away earlier.

We will identify the cause of death after analysing the records and discuss the matter with forensic doctors," Tirur Deputy Superintendent of Police (DySP) said.

However, relatives claimed that there was nothing suspicious in the death of the children and that doctors have said it was due to some genetic disease.

"The post-mortem of the third child was conducted and the doctors said the death was due to some genetic problems. They said they were helpless," a relative said, adding that the family was ready to face any probe.

According to the locals, the couple had claimed that the children have died due to epilepsy.

Sources said the baby was taken to a hospital but was dead prior to reaching the hospital early this morning.

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Sushma Bangera
June 4,2020

Kuwait: The Covid-19 pandemic has pushed the whole world into a difficult situation and the situation of Indians in Kuwait is not any different. Many people have lost their jobs, have no salary, are deprived of food and are not able to pay rent. The appalling conditions of labourers, domestic workers, taxi drivers and low waged earners don’t seem to end in Kuwait. 

At this trying situation when many people were even afraid of leaving their houses because of coronavirus, Suresh S. Rao Neramballi, volunteer of the Food Kit Distribution at the ICSG (Indian Community Support Group) has helped many tremendously. He was ready to go around delivering food kits at any time possible by his car. However, after Kuwait imposed a full curfew from 11th May 2020, no one could take out their vehicles unless they had a curfew pass. 

This did not stop Mr. Suresh Neramballi, who then borrowed a bicycle from a friend and ended up going around in the cycle delivering the food kits in curfew break time (4:30pm to 6:30pm) to all those who registered in the ICSG website. This selfless service surely commands appreciation and applause. Mr. Suresh Neramballi has been a light for many families and bachelors in Kuwait and will surely garner the blessings of them who have been able to eat at this time.

He was also the one who could deliver the food kits to many Indian Muslim maids, bachelors, laborers and families previous day and right on the day of EID, as they were not able to go shopping for their groceries for EID, due to the curfew. They blessed him in EID dua. 

Mr. Suresh Neramballi hails from Mangaluru, India and is an Engineer in the Oil sector company in Kuwait. He has been dedicated to social service, achieved 'Aryabhata International Award' for his Kannada Service and Social service, served in many Associations and Distributor of Kannada and Tulu Movies in Kuwait. He wholeheartedly thanks the people and government of Kuwait for his bread and butter.

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Tanveer
 - 
Friday, 5 Jun 2020

May Almighty Allah shower His mescifull blessing on you and your family... Your selfless service will always be remembered,,,

M SHARIEF SULTAN
 - 
Thursday, 4 Jun 2020

God bless you and your family

abdullah
 - 
Thursday, 4 Jun 2020

God bless you brother and keep you healthy plus happy always.   You will be in the prayers of those who receivec your timely regardles they are hindu or muslim or christian.   This is a slap on the face of hate mongers who are always trying to divide the socieity in the name of religion.    Such people are burden to this world and society.   We should clean our society from such dirt and bad people.   Well done brother.  May God bless you.

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January 30,2020

Bengaluru, Jan 30: A kidnap case in Bengaluru has proved that crime-based series on TV channels can inspire youth to commit crimes. 21-year-old Chirag R Mehta, who kidnapped a schoolboy and got arrested within an hour after demanding Rs 5 lakh ransom, has told police that he thought of abducting the boy after watching Crime Patrol, a popular Hindi crime anthology series created by Subramanian S. lyer for Sony TV. The kidnapped schoolboy was rescued by the police and reunited with his parents. Son of a gift shop owner from Basavanagudi area in Bengaluru, Chirag has reportedly told police that decided to make some quick money to spend on cricket betting and gambling after learning kidnap tricks from the ‘Crime Patrol’. According to police, Chirag reached a private school around 3pm on Tuesday on a Bounce rental bike and zeroed in on a fourth standard student who was walking out of school. He told the boy he was his father's friend and that he required help to search for a relative who had gone missing. The boy believed Chirag and rode pillion on the bike. Chirag then engaged the boy in conversation and learnt about his father's business and got his mobile phone number. He then made a call to the boy's father, demanded Rs 5 lakh and warned him against approaching cops. However, the boy's father alerted Cottonpet police and special teams were formed to crack the case. While Cottonpet inspector Venkatesh TC's squad verified CCTV footage in and around the school, Chamarajpet inspector BG Kumaraswamy's team started tracking the suspect's mobile phone movements. An hour later, the suspect's location was traced to a hotel on the Lavelle Road-St Mark's Road stretch. Police rushed there, rescued the boy and arrested Chirag.

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