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Farm loan waiver: Siddaramaiah exposes BJP’s politics as Centre snubs Karnataka

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June 22, 2017

Bengaluru, Jun 22: The farm loan waiver announced by CM Siddaramaiah in the legislative assembly on Wednesday saw much bantering between the Congress and the BJP in both Houses of the legislature. Defending the move, the chief minister pulled up the BJP . Here's his take: The PM assured a farm loan waiver in the run-up to UP assembly elections and it featured in the BJP's poll manifesto.

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The party came to power and announced farm loan waiver, but a government order is yet to be issued.Maharashtra, too, has announced crop loan waiver and not issued any order. This is how the BJP plays politics.In Karnataka, we never made a mention of farm loan waiver in our poll manifesto, yet we have done it now in the interest of farmers. We are issuing an order with immediate effect.

There had been demands from legislators and the opposition parties for loan waiver, but we have announced a waiver to pull the farmers' out of distress and not because of pressure or fear of the BJP. In fact, we have also cleared all the loans that had been obtained by the previous Jagadish Shettarled BJP government. The BJP has no moral right to demand loan waiver.

Union finance minister Arun Jaitley said the Centre will not support farm loan waiver. If this is the Centre's stand, how can states go ahead with it. Despite the Centre's no, we decided to waive off loans.

Farmers' unrest erupted in MP and took a violent turn.There is no such situation in Karnataka despite the state reeling under severe drought. In fact, the NITI Ayog, too, has acknowledged that farmers in Karnataka are happier than those elsewhere in the country . This proves that our government is pro-farmer and delivers.

You should be in cinema, Tara tells Siddaramaiah The legislative council saw

The legislative council saw its members share some humour when CM Siddaramaiah announced the loan waiver. Seeing the CM announce the waiver, actor-turned politician Tara remarked: "A great actor. You should be in cinema". To this, Siddaramaiah responded: "I will definitely act if you can produce a film for me". Tara, instantly shot back. "I'm ready to be the producer but only if you agree to be my financier. Later, the CM reminisced he and his friendturned-foe AH Vishwanath acted in college. "He (Vishwanath ) was a better actor," he added. Opposition leader KS Eshwarappa said: "Three members in this House belong to the film fraternity and who act with make-up.But the CM acts with the grease paint."

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January 17,2020

Bengaluru, Jan 17: Six persons, said to be supporters of Social Democratic Party of India, have been arrested in connection alleged attempt to murder a member of RSS in Bengaluru.

Varun Bhopala (34), a resident of Sarakki in JP Nagar, was attacked while he was on his way to his father's shop near JC Road after attending a pro-CAA event organised by the RSS and other Hindutva organisations on December 22, 2019.

Police commissioner Bhaskar Rao said the arrested are Irfan alias Mohammed Irfan (33), Syed Akbar alias Mechanic Akbar (46), Syed Siddiq Akbar (30), Akbar Basha (27), Sanaulla Sharif (28) and Sadiq UL Ameen (39) - all residents of KG Halli in East and North Bengaluru.

Rao said the arrested wanted to attack and kill the leaders who took part in the pro-CAA event. They initially pelted seven stones to scatter the crowd so that they can attack the leaders, but they failed. Later, they saw Varun walking out of the crowd wearing a saffron shirt. So the arrested followed him and attacked him with lethal weapons. Assuming he is dead, the gang fled on their bikes towards Bidadi.

''The SDPI activists were funded by their leaders to create a disturbance, kill Hindu organisation leaders,'' Rao said. "I have formed a special team to investigate in-depth about the SDPI activities and take necessary action,'' he added.

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August 7,2020

Bengaluru, Aug 7: Karnataka Revenue Minister R Ashoka has said that state was prepared to tackle COVID-19 and flood situation.

"Today I had a meeting with officials from disaster management, housing, Police, agriculture departments. The government is ready to tackle both the COVID-19 pandemic as well as the flood situation," he told news agency.

The minister said he had held a meeting with officials to take precautionary measures.
"I sanctioned Rs 20 crore to the Fire Department to purchase the equipment for rescue operations. I have already announced red alert in six districts. Tomorrow, I will visit Kodagu, Chikmagalur to assess rescue operations. NDRF reached have teams for rescue operations," he said.

"We are monitoring all dams. Last time we got more floods because of dams. I have instructed to all district collectors that 70 per cent water be filled in dams. Remaining water be sent to canals. We are expecting more rains in nine districts this year," he added.

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March 12,2020

Bengaluru, Mar 12: The Karnataka government on Wednesday clarified that no coronavirus "emergency" has been declared in the state and that all the schools and offices will remain open.

Earlier, there were fake reports that Karnataka has declared "coronavirus as an epidemic" in the state.

In a statement, Karnataka health commissioner Pankaj Kumar Pandey refuted the reports doing rounds on social media which said Karnataka had declared COVID-19 as a "state epidemic".

Refuting the rumours, he added that all the schools, offices and other institutions will continue to function normally in the state.

The Karnataka government earlier today issued temporary regulation which asked all government and private hospitals to have flu corners for screening of suspected cases of COVID-19.

According to the regulation, no person/institution shall use print or electronic media to spread mis-information on COVID-19 without prior permission of the department of health & family welfare. If a person is found indulging in any such activity, they will be punished, it said.

The Karnataka government also started a campaign called 'Namaste over Handshake' that encourages people to greet in the traditional Indian style, to tackle the spread of the virus.

The state has reported four positive cases of coronavirus so far.

India, so far, has 60 confirmed cases of coronavirus, including 16 Italians tourists.

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