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Leaders across party lines come together to fight communalism

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August 22, 2012

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Mangalore, August 22: In order to carry out a combined fight against the Sangh Parivar in the backdrop of Morning Mist Homestay attacks, leaders cutting across party lines have come together under the banner of 'Karavali Souharda Sangharsha Samithi'.

Addressing media persons at a press meet in Mangalore on Wednesday, B Ramanath Rai, President, District Congress, who has been chosen as the President of the Committee, said that the platform is apolitical and aims at bringing back peace in the coastal region. The Committee is not confined to homestay attacks alone and will oppose any untoward incident on communal lines by any group in the future, he said.

B Madhava, District Secretary, CPI(M), and Chief Secretary of the Committee, said that a special legal cell has been formed by the Committee consisting of Yashwanth Maroli, T C M Sharif, B Ibrahim, Ivan D'Souza, and Satish Kumar Bantwal, to take up matters of moral policing and communal disharmony in the region legally. Attempts to create awareness among people against communal forces would also be made by the Committee he said.

M G Hegde, JDS leader and member of the Committee said that Mangalore's image has taken a beating in sectors such as finance, education and tourism greatly because of the incident. The Committee has been formed with an aim to provide a permanent platform to oppose and check communal disturbances in the region, he said.

Responding to a query on why no members from the BJP have been included in the committee, Mr. Hegde said: “We have neither approached BJP, nor have we included KFD”.

M B Sadashiva, JDS leader, also expressed concerns over the communalization of coastal region and said that the true culture of the peaceful Dakshina Kannada is in danger.

As part of its anti-homestay attack campaign, the Committee will hold a protest rally on September 4 in front of the Deputy Commissioner's office at 11 am.

Amarnath Shetty, former minister, Ivan D'Souza, K R Shriyan, M B Sadashiva, and P Sanjeeva have been named Vice Presidents of the Committee. PV Mohan, Shashiraj Shetty, H V Rao, Rita Noronha, Chandrakala Nadavara and Sushil Noronha have been named Secretaries. K Yadav Shetty has been chosen as the Treasurer.


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July 6,2020

Bengaluru, Jul 6: Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa on Monday said that the "country will have to learn to live with coronavirus as there are no options".

Yediyurappa made the remark after paying tribute to Babu Jagjivan Ram, on his death anniversary, at a ceremony in Vidhana Soudha.

"We don't have any other option, we have to learn to live with this virus. Even Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said the same thing. We have increased ambulances, we have made all arrangements to fight the pandemic. It is very important to safeguard ourselves," he said.

The Chief Minister added that the state government has made many arrangements to combat the widespread illness.

According to the Union Health Ministry, there is 23,474 number of COVID-19 cases in the state and 372 people have died due to the illness.

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July 5,2020

Bengaluru, Jul 5: A total number of 32 SSLC students, who took exams between June 25 and July 3 have tested positive for the coronavirus.

Eighty other students are in home quarantine. As per a press release from the Karnataka government here as of July 3, more than 7.60 lakh students wrote the exam, with 14,745 absentees. The report from the government stated that 3,911 students did not attend the exams as they were in a containment zone. A total of 863 students had not attended the exams as they were unwell.

Last week, a Class 10 student from Hassan had tested coronavirus positive. The student reportedly wrote an exam on June 25, despite having taken the coronavirus test. His positive result reportedly came shortly after he finished writing the exam.

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February 21,2020

Bengaluru, Feb 21: Amulya Leona, a college student, who raised to pro-Pakistan slogans to embarrass organisers of a protest against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) here on Thursday evening, has been charged with sedition.

The student-activist, who was allowed to talk on stage, suddenly raised pro-Pakistan slogans. She was arrested by police after All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi snatched her mike.

Deputy Commissioner of Police Ramesh Bannoth confirmed the girl has been charged with sedition, provoking enmity between groups, and intentional insult to provoke breach of peace.

It was just after Mr. Owaisi’s arrival on the stage at Freedom Park here that the 19-year-old student was asked to speak. After preliminary remarks, she suddenly shouted “Pakistan zindabad” thrice, leaving the crowd and organisers stunned.

Some of the organisers rushed to her and tried to take the mike away and stop her from speaking further. Mr. Owaisi too joined in and snatched the mike. Holding on to the mike, the girl then went on to shout “Hindustan zindabad” twice, before a posse of police personnel and organisers whisked her away from the stage

Soon after the student was taken away, a visibly upset Mr. Owaisi told the crowd: “Whatever has been spoken [by the girl] is wrong. Neither my party nor I has any connection with it. As long as we are alive, we will be raising Bharat zindabad slogans. Never had we any relationship with Pakistan nor will we have anything in future,” he announced.

He further stated: “This is condemnable. The organisers should not have invited such people to this place. If I had known that these kind of things would be said here, I would not have come here.”

It is unfortunate that the organisers have invited such people and a wrong message is going out, he said. “Now, BJP has got an opportunity and will blame me,” he added.

Every speaker, who took the podium after the incident, condemned the pro-Pakistan slogans raised by Amulya.

Janata Dal (S) councillor representing Gurappanapalya, Imran Pasha, one of the organisers of the protest under “Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Isayi Federation”, claimed that they had not invited the “activist” and were not aware that she would be speaking from the stage. Mr. Pasha said that such statements were “a deliberate attempt to drive a wedge between Hindus and Muslims”.

Meanwhile, the BJP State unit tweeted, “Truth is that protests against CAA are a joint venture between Pakistan and anti-National forces led by INC India.” In a press release, BJP State unit president Nalin Kumar Kateel termed this as an “anti-national act” and urged the police to take action.

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