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Is Karnataka Governor Vajubhai Vala, the confidante of PM Modi, in race for Gujarat CM post?

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December 21, 2017

Bengaluru, Dec 21: Rumours are doing rounds that Bharatiya Janata Party high command is considering many senior leaders including Karnataka Governor Vajubhai R Vala for the post of chief minister of Gujarat, where the saffron party faced a tough challenge from Congress in recent polls.

The 78-year-old Vala, who hails from Sangh Parivar, shares close ties with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and party chief Amit Shah.

Vala started his political career at the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and subsequently joined Jan Sangh in 1971. He was the Mayor of Rajkot in the 1980s. Later he contested Gujarat assembly elections from Rajkot and served as the Cabinet Minister holding finance, revenue portfolios from 1998 to 2012. He was the finance minister in Gujarat for two terms. He holds the record of presenting budget in Gujarat Legislative Assembly; 18 times as the finance minister. He was elected as the Speaker of assembly in December 2012 and served till August 2014

Soon after becoming Prime Minister, Modi appointed Vala as the Governor of Karnataka in 2014. Both the leaders are said to be close since the time the latter vacated the Rajkot II constituency to enable Modi to contest byelections and become member of the Gujarat Assembly in 2002. Modi emerged victorious in the byelections. The BJP had replaced Keshubhai Patel with Modi as the Chief Minister of Gujarat in 2001. 

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May 21,2020

Bengaluru, May 21: Karnataka reported 116 fresh cases of coronavirus on Thursday, taking the state tally to 1578. 

So far, 570 people have been cured and discharged while 41 have succumbed to the virus, informed the state health department.

Out of the 116 cases, 71 have a history of inter-state travel history to Maharashtra.

Out of the 116 cases, 27 are from Udupi alone, 15 cases are reported from Mandya and 13 are from Hassan. Bengaluru Urban saw seven new cases.

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May 12,2020

Shivamogga, May 12: Roopa Praveen Rao, an expectant mother and a nurse at a hospital in Shivamogga's Karnataka, has chosen to continue to serve the patients amid the ongoing COVID-19 crisis.

Rao who hails from Gajanuru village is nine months pregnant and works at Jayachamarajendra Government Hospital as a nurse.

She travels every day to Thirthahalli taluk to attend to the patients at the hospital.

"The taluk hospital is surrounded by many villages, people need our service. My seniors had asked me to take leave but I want to serve people. I work six hours a day," she told news agency.

She added that Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa too called her up and appreciated her dedication and suggested that she should take rest.

Rao is one of the many frontline COVID-19 warriors who have been risking their lives to ensure that everyone stays safe as the country fights the coronavirus.

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April 18,2020
Mangaluru, Apr 18: Food kits were distributed to as many as 100 needy Beary poets, writers and artistes’ on behalf of the Karnataka Beary Sahitya Academy at a simple ceremony held at the Academy office here on Friday.
 
The service initiative during the Lockdown was taken up as per the guidance of Minister for Kannada and Culture C T Ravi.
 
Dakshina Kannada District in-charge Minister Kota Srinivas Poojary distributed the kits to the beneficiaries.

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