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District BJP leaders looked the other way when axe fell on Sadananda Gowda

July 8, 2012

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Mangalore, July 9: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders in Dakshina Kannada, the home district of Chief Minister D.V. Sadananda Gowda, have remained silent spectators to the development within the party leading to the replacement of Mr. Gowda with Jagadish Shettar as the Chief Minister.

The BJP bastion of the coastal belt, has elected four MLAs to the Assembly in the last election and had laid the foundation for the growth of the party elsewhere.

Mr. Gowda was the second politician from Dakshina Kannada to become the Chief Minister after M. Veerappa Moily of the Congress, and both had a very short stint at the office.

Interestingly, the four MLAs and an MP elected on the BJP ticket have distanced themselves from issuing any public statement or openly identifying with the groups within the BJP.

While some leaders in the district unit gave mixed reactions, some others said that it was not right to seek the resignation of Mr. Gowda. Mr. Gowda had been replaced when the party was recovering from the damage it had suffered because of scams and controversies in the first three years.

Mr. Gowda had implemented Sakala scheme for the benefit of the people, they said. Some said that Mr. Gowda being the Chief Minister had not made any difference to the party or district.

A leader said that B.S. Yeddyurappa had sanctioned Rs. 200 crore particularly for the development works in the city during his tenure. Mr. Yeddyurappa was responding to the party workers demand without any bias, he said.

Spokesperson of the district unit of the party K. Monappa Bhandary said that the party had taken the decision after consultations. Reacting to the development Padmanabh Kottary, the president of the district unit of the party, said the district would have benefited immensely had Mr. Gowda continued as the Chief Minister.

“But as a good party worker he has quit the office,” Mr. Kottary added. Meanwhile, Yogish Bhat, MLA and the deputy speaker of the Assembly, said that the MLAs from the district had tried their best to ensure a longer run for Mr. Gowda. “He (Mr. Gowda) has contributed a lot to the development of the district and the State,” he added.

Interestingly, Opposition parties in the district – JDS and Congress – have used the opportunity to mount attack on the BJP MLAs of the district for not doing enough to back Mr. Gowda. “The local BJP leaders who benefited from Mr. Gowda's tenure did not stand behind him,” said Congress MLA Abhayachandra Jain. “As a sensible chief minister, Mr. Gowda has done good to the State,” he added. The district unit vice-president of JD(S), Mohammed Shafi, also regretted the unceremonial exit of Mr. Gowda. “Caste politics is thriving in the BJP. Gowda is the victim of this politics,” he said.

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February 7,2020

Bengaluru, Feb 7: The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) ordered the destruction of a tilted building in the city after evacuating about 150 people from 35 families in the vicinity, an official said on Thursday.

"The top portion of the building has been destroyed 70 per cent today (Thursday). Later, the destruction contractor will allow machines to be used," Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) Yelahanka joint commissioner Ashok said.

Located on Vinayaknagar Street in Hebbal's Kempapura, the five-storey building being used as a hostel for boys got tilted on Wednesday morning, spreading panic in the neighbourhood.

Though the tilted building owned by one Rahul, a jeweller, was a sound structure, Ashok said a neighbour, Babu, hired a JCB excavator to dig deep beside the affected structure to build his own structure.

"Babu not only dug very deep but also damaged the foundation pillar of the tilted building, weakening the structure and leading to its slant," said Ashok.

Babu has been booked and arrested even as the police are on the look-out for the JCB owner and operator.

The titled building erected five floors unauthorisedly and falls into the B Khata category. It was constructed without the civic body's plan, said Ashok. 

A Khata and B Khata denote the two types of khatas that exist under BBMP. Khata is a document which shows a property owner having an account with the municipality to pay taxes. An A Khata denotes that the building owner has paid relevant property taxes and that the building conforms to building bylaws and government rules. A B Khata denotes that the building is in violation of government regulations regarding properties in Bengaluru, even when the civic charges for the property have been cleared by the owner.

"As per procedure, we issue notice, but such constructions are rampant in the city. Under the BBMP jurisdiction, there are 15 lakh B Khata structures," said Ashok.

For all B Khata sites, the civic body does not give any plan and there is no proper control on them, he said.

Ashok said the case to regularise the B Khata buildings to A Khata buildings is currently pending in the Supreme Court.

Luckily, no injury or loss of life has been reported from the tilted building.

The civic body arranged alternative accommodation for the affected families, but most of them chose to stay with their relatives, said Ashok.

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July 29,2020

Bengaluru Jul 29: There will be a centralised system in place in Karnataka to classify asymptomatic, symptomatic and mild symptomatic persons and recommend treatment based on the severity of the cases, said Medical Education Minister Dr K Sudhakar on Tuesday here.

"Various existing apps related to COVID-19 will be brought under one platform to get real-time information which will assist in strategising allocation of hospitals/beds to the needy. This will probably remove the delay in bed allocation and treatment which is being faced now. The patients will get all information in one phone call," Dr Sudhakar said.

Sudhakar spoke with a team of experts from the government and Infosys.

Referring to a company by name Step 1, which is providing such services in Delhi and Madhya Pradesh, the Minister said that a similar system will be implemented in the state as well.

"This company is having a team of doctors and nurses which is guiding the people whether they need hospital treatment or home isolation after they are tested positive for COVID-19. More than 70 per cent of the positive cases are being asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic and are advised to go for home isolation," the minister said.

"The load on the hospitals is reduced and severe cases can be administered proper treatment. Infosys co-ordinates with the government to provide technical support for this system," Dr Sudhakar added.

Earlier during the day, the minister held a video conference with the heads of private medical colleges to review COVID preparedness.
The government has already passed guidelines to allocate 50 per cent of hospital beds for COVID patients.

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January 23,2020

Bengaluru, Jan 23: Karnataka government on Thursday notified the much-hyped anti-superstition law that aims to prevent and eradicate "inhuman evil practices".

According to Social Welfare principal Secretary G Kumar Naik, the state social welfare department has issued a gazette notification and The Karnataka Prevention and Eradication of Inhuman Evil Practices and Black Magic Act, 2017, that intends to protect the common people against "evil" and "sinister" practices, shall come into force with effect from January 4 2020, the government notification issued earlier this month read.

The act seeks to combat and eradicate such inhuman practices propagated and performed in the name of "black magic" by conmen with the sinister motive of exploiting the common people, thereby destroying the social fabric of the society.

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