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DK ZP polls: 9 Billavas, 6 Muslims, 4 Christians among 36 Cong candidates

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February 6, 2016

Mangaluru, Feb 6: Billavas and Muslims dominated the list of 36 candidates finalized by the Congress party for the upcoming Dakshina Kannada Zilla Panchayat elections. For the first time Dakshina Kannada District Congress Committee has announced candidates for all the constituencies at one go, according to district-in-charge minister B Ramanath Rai.

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Accompanied by Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee observer and former Legislative Council chairman V.R. Sudarshan at district Congress office Mr Rai, said that the list of candidates was prepared as per the guidelines by the KPCC, ensuring social justice.

Among 36 candidates 9 are Billavas and 6 are Muslims. They are followed by Christians, Bunts and Gowdas (4 each), Scheduled Castes (3), Scheduled Tribes (2) and Jain, Rajapur Saraswat Brahmin, Ganiga and Gatti (1 each).

Only four of the 11 outgoing Congress members in the Dakshina Kannada Zilla Panchayat featured in the list—M.S. Mohammed, Mamata Gatti (former ZP president), Saraswati Kamath and Chandra Prakash Shetty. Anita Hemanath Shetty, wife of former Puttur Block Congress president Kavu Hemanath Shetty, also features in the list. She is contesting from the Nettanige-Mudnur constituency.

The full list of the candidates is as follows:
1. Kinnigoli: Pramod Kumar
2. Puttige: Chandrahas Sanil
3. Shirthadi: Sumithra
4. Kateel: Shaila Sequeira
5. Bajpe: Maimuna Nisar
6. Edapadavu: Krishna Ameen
7. Gurpuru: U P Ibrahim
8. Neermarga: Seema D'Souza
9. Konaje: Rasheeda Banu
10. Someshwar: Lakshmi Poojary
11. Sangabettu: Mailappa Salian
12. Sarapady: Padmashekhar Jain
13. Pudu: Ummar Farooq
14. Gothamajalu: Bharathi R Poojary
15. Mani: Manjula Madhava Bave
16. Kolnadu: M S Mohammed
17. Kurnadu: Mamatha Gatti
18. Sajipamunnur: Chandraprakash Shetty
19. Punacha: Chethana
20. Naravi: P Dharanendra Kumar
21. Aladangady: Shekhar Kukkedi
22. Laila: Shobha N Gowda
23. Ujire: Namitha
24. Dharmastala: B Ramesh
25. Kaniyoor: Shahul Hameed
26. Kuvettu: Shral Jeene Noronha
27. Uppinangady: Anitha Keshav Gowda
28. Nelyadi: Sarvotham Gowda
29. Kadaba: PP Varghese
30. Belandoor: Sathish Kedanji
31. Panaje: Pavithra B
32. Nettanige Mudnoor: Anitha Hemanatha Shetty
33. Bellare: Rajeevi Rai
34. Guttigar: Vimala Rangaiah
35. Jalsoor: Saraswathi Kamath
36. Aranthodu: Madhava Gowda

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Siraj
 - 
Sunday, 7 Feb 2016

Muslim population in Dakshina Kannada is 24.02% according to 2011 census. Since independence, all these years, more than 70% Muslims had been voting Congress party. So, this 6 seats (16.66%) is not the due share of this oppressed Community.
Now, it's not the time to beg your share with other political parties who exploited you intentionally all these years. Muslims need to find alternative and show their power. It's time to stand firm on your feet. Unless and until you show your power in the election, nobody is going to count you!
Billavas got more seats than Muslims not because of their more number, it's because of their negotiating power. According to political parties, the market value of a Muslim vote is less than a Billava vote. There is no point in blaming congress party for this reason. It's the Muslim community who lack self confidence in taking right decision at the right time.

Prashanth Poojary
 - 
Saturday, 6 Feb 2016

BJP will defeat congress for sure.

Swetha Poojary
 - 
Saturday, 6 Feb 2016

All Billava Candidates all the best.

Deepak Kumar
 - 
Saturday, 6 Feb 2016

Well done Cong. All the best. #WithCongress

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Media Release
February 12,2020

Mangaluru, Feb 11: Renowned journalist and winner of Magsaysay award, P Sainath will be in Mangaluru on February 14 & 15 at St. Aloysius College (Autonomous). He will speak on the topic ‘Indian democracy in post liberalisation and post truth era’.

P Sainath’s two-day visit to St. Aloysius College will also feature a workshop by the veteran journalist on his rural development project PARI (People’s Archives of Rural India). It is a part of the tenth edition of Media Manthan, a National level media fest organised by the post-graduate department of Journalism and Mass Communication of St. Aloysius College.

P. Sainath is a veteran journalist and media activist who has an avid interest in rural reporting. People’s Archives of Rural India (PARI), a digital journalism platform is an initiative put forward by him which aims to document rural Indian lives and livelihood. Sainath is also a teacher who has trained over 1000 media persons across 27 years.

Media Manthan is a media festival by the PG Department of Mass Communication of St. Aloysius College (Autonomous). Besides endowment lecture and workshop by P. Sainath, the fest holds various media-related competitions for the students of various colleges from across the state.

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News Network
April 4,2020

Mangaluru, Apr 4: Dakshina Kannada district deputy commissioner (DC) Sindhu B Rupesh in an official reminder has ordered milk unions to disburse about 5,000 litres of milk to residents of notified and non-notified slums, construction labourers and migrant labourers and their families in shelters in the district.

A decision regarding the free distribution of milk to such needy families was taken in a meeting by the chief minister on April 1.

The DC has ordered cooperative milk unions in the district to distribute milk to such families from April 4 till April 14.

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July 6,2020

Bengaluru, Jul 6: Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa on Monday said that the "country will have to learn to live with coronavirus as there are no options".

Yediyurappa made the remark after paying tribute to Babu Jagjivan Ram, on his death anniversary, at a ceremony in Vidhana Soudha.

"We don't have any other option, we have to learn to live with this virus. Even Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said the same thing. We have increased ambulances, we have made all arrangements to fight the pandemic. It is very important to safeguard ourselves," he said.

The Chief Minister added that the state government has made many arrangements to combat the widespread illness.

According to the Union Health Ministry, there is 23,474 number of COVID-19 cases in the state and 372 people have died due to the illness.

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