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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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April 18,2020

Mangaluru, Apr 18: Three people, including a woman, who were being treated at the city's Wenlock Hospital have been discharged after they recovered from Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19).

With this, a total of 12 people who had tested positive for the virus until Thursday have been discharged from various hospitals in Dakshina Kannada.

A 39-year-old advocate from Uppinangady tested positive for Covid -19 on Friday, he has been admitted to the Wenlock Hospital and is being treated. With this, only one COVID-19 positive patient is being treated at Wenlock Hospital till Friday evening.

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June 18,2020

Bengaluru, Jun 18: Karnataka Public Service Commission (KPSC) was reprimanded for withholding information, sought by a candidate regarding an examination held in 2005 for Gazeted Probationary posts, by the State Information Commissioner here on Thursday.

According to official sources, the State Information Commissioner NP Ramesh, while disposing off a petition by the candidate, who had written an examination conducted by the KPSC for the gazeted probationary posts held in 2005, had directed to provide the information sought by the candidate, free of costs within ten days.

The State Information Commissioner in his order had termed the conduct of the KPSC as against the spirit of transparency among the public authorities.

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June 27,2020

Mangaluru, June 27: The district health authorities are likely to conduct mass random testing for Covid-19 in Ullal town on the outskirts of the city in the wake of detection of several new coronavirus positive cases there in past couple few days.  

An elderly woman from Azad Nagar in Ullal was died of coronavirus earlier this week. Many others including a couple of policemen also tested positive for the deadly virus in vicinity.

Following this, local elected representatives including MLA U T Khader and religious leaders of Ullal held a meeting regarding taking steps to control the spread of the virus. In the meeting Mr Khader suggested the authorities to conduct random testing in Ullal town. 

Apart from Azad Nagar, covid-19 cases have surfaced in Kodi, Bangera Lane and in the surroundings of police station and Sahara Hospital triggering panic among people. Hence, the authorities are like to conduct random testing of auto rickshaw drivers, fishermen, street vendors among others. 

Meanwhile, several mosques in Ullal have reportedly decided to suspend congregational prayers temporarily.

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