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Hundreds pay last respect to Bondala Jagannath Shetty

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July 31, 2012

Mangalore, August 1: Leaders and workers of Congress party, activists and representatives of various organisations and hundreds other on Wednesday paid their last respects to former District Youth Congress chief Bondala Jagannath Shetty in the city.

People in large numbers turned up to pay their tribute to the late leader whose mortal remains were kept in front of District Congress Office, here for public homage. With folded hands, the mourners were seen passing by the flower bedecked coffin amidst the presence of grieving family members.

After paying their last respect to the departed leader District Congress Committee president and Bantwal MLA B Ramanath Rai said that Tuesday night's accident was indeed an accident for all the leaders and workers of Congress party from this region. No one can fulfill this loss, he added.

Former MP Vinay Kumar Sorake opined that Shetty was one of the uncontroversial and much revered leaders of Congress party in Bantwal-Puttur region. “He was a secular leader and true Congress man. Though he had lost Puttur Assembly constituency to Mallika Prasad in 2008 elections, he worked for the people till his last breath,” he said.

Terming Shetty's death as most unfortunate incident Mangalore MLA U T Khader said that Congress party could never forget former's contribution. “This a great loss for all of us. I lost one of my best friends forever”, he said.

JD(S) leader MG Hegde and District Congress Secretary T K Sudhir among others also paid their homage. The mortal remains were later taken in a procession to his hometown in Bantwal for final rites.

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Earlier:

Congress leader Bondala Jagannath Shetty killed in accident

Mangalore, July 31: In a late-night tragedy, one of the prominent Congress leaders from Coastal Karnataka, Bondala Jagannath Shetty died on spot, when his car met with an accident near Panemangalore.

39-year-old Shetty was returning home when his Fortuner SUV collided with a gas tanker at around 11:00pm on Tuesday.

The unexpected tragedy comes a day after he addressed a media conference in Mangalore to condemn the homestay attack.

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Hailing from Bantwal taluk, Shettey had jumped into politics at an early age and held many positions in Congress party. Between 2001 and 2009 he was the president of Dakshina Kannada district Youth Congress.

In 2008 assembly elections Shetty had contested from prestigious Puttur constituency and had lost to Bharatiya Janata Party's Mallika Prasad by a margin of around 1500 votes.

He is survived by his wife, a daughter and a large number of relatives, friends and well-wishers.


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July 25,2020

Gokak, Jul 25: A JMFC magistrate here issued summons to the Chief minister B S Yediyurappa in relation to a complaint for the alleged violation of election code of conduct, during by-elections to the Gokak Assembly seat held last year.

According to official sources, a complaint had been registered against Chief minister B S Yediyurappa during the election campaign, under the People Representative Act, for allegedly wooing voters during electioneering.

The Gokak Police, who had investigated the case, however had submitted a 'B' report to the court letting off the Chief minister from the charges.

However the Magistrate, rejecting the Police report, had maintained that there exists prima facie case against the accused and issued summons to appear before the court on September one, the sources added.

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May 5,2020

Bengaluru, May 5: A 62-year-old woman from Vijayapura succumbed to coronavirus infection on Tuesday, taking the COVID-19 death toll in Karnataka to 28, a health official said.

The state has registered eight more COVID-19 cases in the past 19 hours, increasing the count of such cases to 659, the official added.

"Positive case 640, 62-year-old female resident of Vijayapura died on Tuesday due to cardiac arrest," the health official said.

Admitted to a designated hospital''s ICU on Sunday, the woman was also suffering from Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), Bronchial Asthma (BA) and complained of breathlessness.

Among the eight fresh cases that emerged in the state, four were contacts of earlier cases, two with Influenza Like Illness (ILI) and one with travel history to Uttarakhand.

The health department is also tracing the contact history of a 30-year-old woman from Bengaluru Urban.

Incidentally, no new cases emerged from Davangere as 22 cases rocked the district on Monday.

Among the new cases, Bengaluru Urban contributed 3, followed by Bagalkote, 2, Ballari, Dakshina Kannada and Bhatkal in Uttara Kannada, 1 each.

Of the new cases, six are men and two women.

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Bengaluru, May 17: A group of 86 college students, who went to Malaysia for internship and have been stranded due to lockdown, have appealed to Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa to help them return to Karnataka.

The students in the video have also mentioned Union Minister D V Sadananda Gowda and Kolar MP S Muniswamy and stated that States such as Kerala and Tamil Nadu have made arrangements to bring back their natives from South East Asia.

The students added that they are in the Selangor State of Malaysia. They had arrived there on March 13 for a three-month-long internship as part of their college studies. They are living in apartments arranged by their college and money with them is almost spent, their college is extending them support in this regard. They are not in a position to complete the remaining two months of internship due to lock-down in Malaysia.

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