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Kumar Bangarappa to be BJP candidate against his JDS brother in Sorab?

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February 21, 2017

Bengaluru, Feb 21: Former Minister Kumar Bangarappa appears poised to shift loyalties from the Congress to the Bharatiya Janata Party, as he is “frustrated with the ill-treatment” meted out to him in the ruling party. He has, however, said that he is yet to take a final call.

Untitled-1 copyIn the event of Mr. Kumar joining the BJP, it will again be a straight fight between his brother — Madhu Bangarappa (JD-S) and him — in Sorab constituency in 2018, once represented by their late father and former Chief Minister S. Bangarappa. H. Halappa, who contested on the KJP ticket in 2013, and is now in the BJP, is expected to migrate to another constituency in the district to make way for Mr. Kumar.

While Mr. Kumar may be the latest to join the bandwagon, it is speculated that at least half a dozen other Congress leaders will follow in the footsteps of former Chief Minister S.M. Krishna and senior leader V. Srinivas Prasad, who moved out of the Congress recently. Leaders like M.H. Ambareesh, Suresh Gowda, and L.R. Shivarame Gowda, leaders from Mandya, are likely to quit the Congress, sources in the party said.

Like his late father, who used to convene a meeting of his supporters in Sorab town prior to taking important political decisions, Mr. Kumar convened one recently. “In the Sorab meeting, people forced me to join the BJP. I will take a final call after holding another round of consultations with my supporters in Sorab,” he said.

Lashing out at Revenue Minister Kagodu Thimmappa, he said JD(S) activists were nominated for the taluk-level bagair hukum regularisation committee in Sorab constituency, which is represented by his younger brother, Madhu Bangarappa (JD-S).

Mr. Kumar said there was deep discontent among Congress activists against the style of functioning of the government and the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee. “The KPCC has remained deaf even to the displeasure expressed by senior leaders C.K. Jaffer Sharief, B. Janardhana Poojary, and H. Vishwanath,” he said.

Meanwhile, Madhu Bangarappa, president of the state youth wing of the JD(S), ruled out the possibility of his brother Kumar Bangarappa joining the party. “He is in a national party; I am a member of a regional one. We cannot be in the same party. That being the case, there is no possibility of him joining the JD(S),” Madhu told reporters in Shivamogga.

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shaji
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Tuesday, 21 Feb 2017

Both these are ruining their future. Its unfortunate that few leaders wants to be in higher position always for their own benefit and they start blaming the party whenever they are not given chance. These are selfish parties who are caring of themselves only and not caring for party or public. These people are now joining the most corrupt party BJP.

dodanna
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Tuesday, 21 Feb 2017

Dear Brothers,

Both are same blood belongs to ONE family let them stay together and allow them to lead a peaceful and happy life.

why the politicians are playing such dirty politics with innocents.
One Shakuni is playing a big game behind the screen is a well known news.

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July 16,2020

Hassan, Jul 16: In fresh incident of cast killing, a Dalit youth in Alur taluk of Hassan district was shot dead yesterday by the relatives of the girl with whom he was in love. 

The deceased identified as Madhu, a 30-year-old resident of Soppinahalli village. He had taken a 25-year-old girl with him and was planning to marry her after taking her family into confidence.  

The relatives of the girl, who belong to upper caste, claimed that Madhu had kidnapped the daughter of one Ramesh of the same village. The girl's uncle Rupesh had waylaid Madhu when he was on the way to the field and shot at him. 

The body of the deceased as been shifted to a mortuary. The accused Rupesh has gone absconding. Sources said that the family of Ramesh has strongly opposed the inter-caste marriage.

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March 11,2020

Bengaluru, Mar 11: The move by rebel ruling Congress MLAs in Madhya Pradesh to trigger the crisis for the party's government in the state appears to have been in the making for at least close to a month as Karnataka BJP leaders were sounded about hosting them in Bengaluru in advance, sources said.

They also indicated that the 19 rebel MLAs would stay in the city for at least two weeks till an alternative government takes charge in Madhya Pradesh.

A senior Karnataka BJP leader, in charge of the Madhya Pradesh legislators' stay in Bengaluru, received a communication from the party's central leaders about the move nearly 15-20 days ago, the sources involved in the development said on condition of anonymity on Tuesday.

The leader had even gone to New Delhi in the third week of February to meet BJP's central leaders in this regard, they said.

In a massive setback for the Congress, its prominent youth leader Jyotiradtya Scindia quit the party and in a coordinated rebellion on Tuesday 21 MLAs loyal to him resigned in Madhya Pradesh, pushing the 15-month-old Kamal Nath government to the brink of collapse.

As many as 19 Madhya Pradesh MLAs, including six ministers, said to be loyalists of Mr Scindia who appeared set to join BJP, are camping at a resort in Bengaluru. Two of them are women, the sources said.

The MLAs on Tuesday sent their resignation letters via e-mail to Raj Bhavan in Bhopal from Bengaluru.

According to the sources, eight legislators, including an independent, have been staying in the city for about a week now. Of them two - one from Congress and the other an independent MLA - had gone back.

The six were joined by 13 legislators, who landed in the city by a chartered flight on Monday, and all of them are put up in a villa.

The senior Karnataka BJP leader, also an MLA, is looking after their stay and related arrangements on the directions of the party high command, the sources said. Their stay here may be for a couple of weeks.

"There will be a no-confidence motion, and then there will be a trust vote of the new alternative government that will be formed. So they may have to stay here for some time. They may be moved out of their current location," they said.

The Madhya Pradesh legislature session is expected to begin on March 16.

The sources also said the six legislators staying in the city since last week were shifted a couple of times within the city.

Congress in Madhya Pradesh, under the leadership of Kamal Nath, had come to power in December 2018 by ousting the BJP by a narrow margin.

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February 1,2020

Mangaluru, Feb 2: A video of a woman rescuing a dog from a well in Mangaluru has gone viral on social media. The dog fell inside the well accidentally and the woman rushed to the spot to rescue it. The two minute seven second video has been shared on Twitter by a user, Mauna, and has ever since been viewed over 15,000 times.

The woman climbed down the well as other people attached a rope to her body during the rescue mission. Another rope was then thrown to her and she tied it around the dog after which it was pulled outside. The woman, thereafter, climbed outside the well with much difficulty.

"Bless the lady who saved the Dog," the user captioned the post.

Watch the video here:

 

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