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Ministers, Cong legislators bribing voters in Hebbal: DVS

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February 13, 2016

Bengaluru, Feb 13: Union Law Minister D?V?Sadananda Gowda on Friday claimed that a few ministers in the Siddaramaiah Cabinet and some Congress legislators were distributing money to influence voters in the Hebbal Assembly constituency.

sadananda copyAddressing a press conference in Bengaluru, he said the Congress was indulging in electoral malpractices and illegalities after the deadline for campaigning closed on Thursday.

The bypoll for the Hebbal seat is scheduled for Saturday.

Gowda said he had information that Ministers Roshan Baig, Dinesh Gundu Rao, Legislators Byrathi Basavaraj, Muniratna, R?V?Devaraj and Bengaluru Mayor Manjunatha Reddy had been allotted specific pockets and wards in the constituency. He said Energy Minister D?K?Shivakumar was leading the entire operation.

The Union?minister said he had lodged a complaint with the Election?Commission, while also urging it to take steps to ensure free and fair polls. Outsiders should not be allowed into the constituency, he said. The police too should act impartially. Party volunteers will also be monitoring the polls. It is the responsibility of the government to ensure there are no illegalities and law and order is protected, he said. He claimed that money had been stashed at the residence of a manager of a private bank in V Nagenahalli. However, it was taken away in a car, fearing raids, Gowda said.

DKS?refutes charges

Energy Minister Shivakumar has, however, termed Sadananda Gowda’s charges baseless. “The BJP leaders have sensed defeat in the bypoll to the Hebbal Assembly constituency. Hence, they are making such baseless allegations on the eve of polling. The ruling party has not misused its power during the campaign. All the ministers left the constituency on Thursday itself,” he claimed.

The BJP has accepted defeat the day the party decided to field Narayanaswamy, he said. “The party failed to find a local leader to contest the bypoll. How can an outsider effectively represent the constituency? People are aware of this and they will take the right decision at the time of voting,” he added.

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Zahoor Ahmed
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Saturday, 13 Feb 2016

Shameless union minister ! Some time he does not know what he want to say. When he smell defeat he starts to bark.

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July 28,2020

Bengaluru, Jul 28: Several state Congress leaders, including its President D K Shivakumar, among others, were detained by police as they tried to march towards Raj Bhavan here against the alleged attempts by BJP to topple the party's government in Rajasthan.

Shivakumar, along with Leader of the Opposition Siddaramaiah, state Congress Working President Eshwar Khandre, Salim Ahmed among others were stopped by the police midway as they marched from KPCC office towards Raj Bhavan.

Congress leaders then staged a dharna at the place where they were stopped. Addressing the gathering, Shivakumar accused the BJP of trying to "murder" democracy by destabilizing and removing elected governments.

"We wanted to protest against it and submit a memorandum to the President through the Governor," but the Karnataka government by using police was not letting them proceed towards Raj Bhavan, he said. "Despite our being a peaceful protest, the police stopped us," he said.

Siddaramaiah, echoing similar views, said peaceful protests against injustice was the right of every citizen. Alleging that the BJP was attempting to destabilise and remove the elected government in Rajasthan as it did in Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh, he said the Governor's office there (Rajasthan) was being 'misused'.

The Governor was working like an agent of the central government, he charged. He said, despite repeated appeals by the Rajasthan cabinet, the Governor there had not convened the assembly session, for the floor test to take place and for Congress to prove its majority. Police subsequently detained Shivakumar and some other Congress leaders and took them to a nearby police station.

They were later released. Meanwhile, as the Congress' protest amid Covid19 pandemic did not follow social distancing norms, Medical Education Minister K Sudhakar hit out at that party's leaders. In a tweet Sudhakar said, for Congress leaders getting publicity was more important than social concerns.

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January 2,2020

Kalaburgi, Jan 2: At least 10 students sustained injuries when a private bus carrying students of a school on an educational tour rammed into a tree today morning.

The mishap occurred when the students of Ayyappa School located in Chennaveera Nagar were going around the city in a bus during their tour.

The bus crashed into a tree near Venkatagiri Hotel on New Jewargi Road in the city.

A case has been registered at a traffic police station.

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May 28,2020

Bengaluru, May 28: A thousand government schools in Karnataka are set to get Englishmedium sections from this academic year (2020-21). These institutions will function in both English and Kannada medium.

The decision was taken by primary and secondary education minister S Suresh Kumar and officials of the education department at a meeting on Wednesday.

Suresh Kumar said dualmedium will help improve the standard of schools and enable their development. The poorest of the poor spend almost 40% of their income on their children’s education in private schools. With the introduction of dual-medium, the government hopes such families will be able to save their earnings, he said. These schools will impart lessons in both English and Kannada. They will also provide textbooks in both languages.

‘Kannada must for all’

The meeting reviewed implementation of the compulsory Kannada Language Learning Act, 2015. Officials from the Kannada Development Authority were present at the meeting who claimed that some private schools have failed to implement the Act properly.

“Action will be taken against such institutions. Every child studying in schools across the state must learn Kannada,” Kumar said at the meeting.

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