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Former Mysuru MP Vijayshankar quits BJP; Is he planning to join Congress?

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October 28, 2017

Mysuru, Oct 28: It’s official. Former Minister C.H. Vijayshankar resigned from the BJP on Saturday. Also a former MP representing Mysuru in the Lok Sabha, he has submitted his resignation to the party’s State unit president B.S. Yeddyurappa. Sources said the resignation letter was faxed to Mr. Yeddyurappa.

However, Mr. Vijayshankar has not spelt out which political party he will be joining, though it is rumoured that he is planning to join the Congress.

The former Minister had been nursing a grouse against the party leadership for denying him the ticket to contest from Mysuru during the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. He had expressed his anguish over a “conspiracy hatched within the party” to deny him a ticket to contest from Periyapatna Assembly constituency in the coming Assembly elections.

After fielding him against former Prime Minister H.D. Deve Gowda in Hassan during the last Lok Sabha elections, Mr. Vijayshankar said the party leaders were “conspiring to make him a sacrificial lamb” by asking him to contest against Chief Minister Siddaramaiah in Chamundeshwari Assembly constituency.

Though he claimed that he did not wish to quit the BJP, he claimed the party leaders had created circumstances that forced him to tender his resignation. He said he took a “painful decision” to quit the BJP to survive in politics.

Mr. Vijayshankar, who had been appointed as the BJP’s State Raitha Morcha president, said he had been nursing Periyapatna Assembly constituency after informing party leaders, including Mr. Yeddyurappa, following his debacle in the last Lok Sabha elections. But, certain sections of the party were making efforts to field an “industrialist from Bengaluru” from Periyapatna and spite him, he alleged.

Mr. Vijayshankar had dropped broad hints of resigning from the BJP when he failed to turn up for the farmers’ convention of Mysuru and Chamarajanagar district addressed by Mr. Yeddyurappa in Mysuru on Thursday. On Wednesday, he had made himself scarce when party leader Shobha Karandlaje tried to meet him in Mysuru in an apparent bid to retain him in the party.

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Saturday, 28 Oct 2017

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May 8,2020

Bengaluru, May 8: Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa said his government is clear in its stand on extending every possible help to the farmers. The Chief Minister spoke to the farmer-leaders of the state, who wanted their concerns to be heard and addressed, with regard to the problems the agrarian community has been facing in the wake of the COVID-19 lockdown.

"We will soon make our position clear on supporting the farmers. We will not allow any hindrance to come in the way of agriculture activities," Yediyurappa told the farmer- leaders.

The Chief Minister told the delegation that the pre-monsoon activities are in full swing in the state.

The government has also set up help centres and been providing agriculture equipment on rent, the Chief Minister said. In most of the places, at least 80 per cent of the standing crops have been harvested.

Arrangements have been made to bring equipment from neighbouring states to harvest the standing crop, he said.

Yediyurappa said fertilisers and seeds are available in abundance in the state.

He informed the farmer-leaders about the arrangements made to transport flowers, vegetables and fruits to other states.

Similarly, the market has been developed for the farmers to sell their products, said the Chief Minister.

He said the government is working out a compensation for farmers who lost their crops due to hailstorm in Raichur, Koppal and Ballari. Agriculture Minister B C Patil, Horticulture Minister Narayana Gowda, Revenue Minister R Ashoka, Chief Secretary T M Vijay Bhaskar and Development Commissioner Vandita Sharma were also present in the meeting.

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January 14,2020

Mangaluru, Jan 14: Ace Yakshagana guru Kadri Ramachandra Bhat Yelluru will be awarded the ‘Kundeshwara Samman’ award by Shri Kundeshwara Kshetra, Hirgana, Karkala taluk.

The award will be presented to him in a ceremony on January 21.

“A Yakshagana, ‘Bhargava Vijaya’, with Yakshadhruva Patla Sateesh Shetty will be held on the same day. A Tulu drama, ‘Panoditthundu’, will be staged by Sindhura team. The annual temple festival will be held on January 22,” a press release issued by Cultural Programme Convenor Jitendra Kundeshwara said here on Tuesday.

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March 16,2020

Mangaluru, Mar 16: As a precaution against the spread of Covid-19, the Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) on Monday decided to cut down its premium, non-AC sleeper, Rajahamsa and express bus services from Mangaluru to Bengaluru and Kasaragod following poor patronage.

The cut down in services is as per the direction of KSRTC's Central office that wants bus services to be operated on priority.

KSRTC Mangaluru Divisional Controller S N Arun said that the corporation has decided to cut down 40 trips to Bengaluru. Concerning Kasaragod, it has reduced the number of trips from 40 to 35. "These include a reduction in services to Mysuru and Dharmasthala also," he added.

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