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Cabinet representation continues to elude DK, Udupi

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July 12, 2012

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Mangalore, July 12: The Jagadish Shettar cabinet has brought disappointment to coastal districts of Udupi and Daskhina Kannada with only one MLA from the region being given the ministerial berth.

Kota Srinivas Poojary, MLC, is the lone representative from the undivided Dakshina Kannada district to have made it to the Shettar cabinet.

The BJP fraternity in Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts has expressed its disappointment with Kundapur MLA Haladi Srinivas Shetty even shedding tears publicly. The decision has not gone down well with Udupi MLA Raghupati Bhat either, it is being said.

Speaking to Coastaldigest.com, Padmanabha Kottary, President of the district unit of the BJP, said that the district expected more in terms of representation in the cabinet. “I had information that Krishna Palemar's name was in the cabinet list. But I now hear that Governor H R Bharadwaj did not want him and C C Patil and Laxman Savadi to be included in the cabinet, though I am not sure about the authenticity of this information. They have given one berth to Udupi district but we should have got ministers from our district too”, Mr. Kottary said.

Dakshina Kannada district has been eluded of a minister, in spite of there being no district in charge minister for quite some time now.

Yogish Bhat, Deputy Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, said that he personally accepts the decision of the party.

MLAs Raghupati Bhat, Krishna Palemar, and Haladi Srinivas Shetty were not available for comment.

U T Khader, MLA, and Congress leader, told Coastaldigest.com that injustice had been done to coastal districts. “We welcome their decision to give a ministerial berth to Kota Srinivas Poojary. But leaving out MLAs like Haladi Srinivas Shetty and MLAs from Dakshina Kannada district is unfair. Out of 13 MLAs from our region, only one has been included in the ministry while two MLAs from smaller districts have been given ministerial berths. They dethroned a Chief Minister who hailed from our district and now hardly any power has been given to the coastal districts in terms of ministry. The government in the state, although technically belongs to BJP, it appears as though some coalition government has been formed with caste permutations coming in to decide the CM and Deputy CMs. People will respond to these developments in an apt manner”, Mr. Khader said.

Meanwhile, it is being reported that supporters of Haladi Srinivas Shetty are protesting against the decision of the party. Word is also doing rounds that the likes of Raghupati Bhat are considering resignation.




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May 1,2020

Mysuru, May 1: Four people who brought a dead man’s body from Mumbai for cremation in his native place in Mandya district in Karnataka have tested positive for Covid-19 virus, and now the administration is trying to find out if the man himself had been an undetected positive.

According to Mandya district deputy commissioner M V Venkatesh, the deceased man was a 53-year-old native of B Kodagalli of Pandavapura taluk, Melkote hobli in Mandya district. He died after suffering a heart attack at the U N Desai government hospital in Mumbai on April 23.

The cremation took place outside the man's native village after the local administration refused to allow it inside the village.

Wanting the final rites performed in his native place, the man’s family got the body embalmed and procured all the medical records and certificates from the hospital and brought it in an ambulance belonging to the Desai government hospital.

When they reached Pandavapura taluk in Karnataka on the evening of April 24, the local administration did not allow the body to enter the village but allowed the relatives to cremate it outside the village.

And since the family had come from Mumbai, the district administration quarantined all seven of the man’s relatives, and their samples were sent for testing on 28 April.

The results showed that the deceased man’s 25-year-old son, daughter-in-law, daughter, and two-year-old grandchild are positive for Covid 19. All of them have been admitted at the Mandya Institute of Medical Sciences although they have no symptoms.

Deputy commissioner Venkatesh said that in the Desai hospital records in Mumbai there was no mention whether or not the man had been tested for Covid-19. “We are writing to Desai hospital to clarify if the deceased person was tested for Covid 19. It is also possible that the family got infected by the man’s son who works in the loan department of ICICI Bank in Mumbai and visits several offices in different areas of Mumbai,” he said.

The man’s ancestral B Kodagalli village now has been sealed off. Though tests done on other members of the family have come back negative, the Mandya administartions plans to repeat their tests.

So far 26 people have tested positive for Covid 19 in Mandya district.

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July 27,2020

Bengaluru, Jul 27: Former Karnataka chief minister H D Kumaraswamy on Monday took strong exception to the BJP's celebration over completing one year in office and alleged that people are suffering due to anti-people policies of the state government.

In a tweet on Monday, he said that since the last six months pension due to physically challenged, old age and Widow pensions were not paid. He urged the Government Issue emerge order to release pension amounts immediately. It was shameful on the part of the Government to keep the pension amount being kept pending.

This government has no eyes and ears and claiming only challenging years and transparent government, what examples required for them, he questioned.

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August 4,2020

Bengaluru,  Aug 4: Former Karnataka Chief Minister and Leader of Opposition in the State Assembly, Siddaramaiah on Tuesday said that he has tested positive for COVID-19 and admitted himself to a hospital.

"I have been tested positive for COVID-19 and also been admitted to the hospital on the advice of doctors as a precaution. I request all those who had come in contact with me to check out for symptoms and to quarantine themselves," Siddaramaiah tweeted.

Earlier on Sunday, Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa had said that he tested positive for the novel coronavirus.

4,752 new COVID-19 cases and 98 deaths were reported in Karnataka on Monday, taking total cases to 1,39,571 including 62,500 discharges and 2,594 deaths, the State Health Department informed.

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