Muslims, Dalits urged to unite to fight against atrocities

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August 28, 2012

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Mangalore, August 28: H Pattabhirama Somayaji, English Lecturer at University College, Mangalore, said that people should consider what the Indian Constitution said rather than thinking along the lines of communal divide.

Speaking at an Eid Milan programme organised by Popular Front of India (PFI) on Tuesday at St Aloysius College Auditorium, he said that the Sangh Parivar had a unique way of creating terror in the country. Along with an agenda, they have the means to carry it out. There is interference of right-wing outfits in law enforcement agencies as well, he said.

There are very few organisations that have been keeping an eye on the activities and agenda of such dangerous outfits with clarity, and PFI is one of them, he added.

Prof. Bhoomi Gowda, Lecturer at St. Agnes College, said that India could never become a Hindu nation. “The Sangh Parivar follows anti-people policies and policies of apathy. It is an unfortunate thing that they believe they cannot be displaced once they come into power. This makes them more liable to dictate their policies. Barring the upper class, they firmly believe that people are not human beings at all. A situation has arisen wherein we are inevitably required to learn how to safeguard ourselves,” he said.

Speaking on the occasion, senior advocate Purushottam Poojary said that a Muslim was the one who completely surrendered himself to Allah. “We are above all human beings, and should follow the same in our actions,” he said.

In his concluding speech, Ilyas Mohammed Thumbay, State President of PFI, expressed concern over the situation of riot hit Assam, where a large number of people lost their lives and thousands of people were displaced.

“The Muslim community has always suffered by the hands of political leaders, bureaucrats, police and goondas. They are wrongly being jailed without being charge-sheeted. Several of them have been languishing in jails without any reason. We need to fight against the atrocities committed on Muslims. If we have to stop the atrocities against Muslims, Dalits and other backward classes, we need to be united,” he said.


Abdul Razak, PFI State Council member, said that the Sangh Parivar had succeeded over the years in portraying Muslims as traitors. They have been repeatedly jailed for no fault of theirs, and subjected to torture, he said.

Freedom from this injustice could be attained only through struggle, he stressed.

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March 24,2020

Bengaluru, Mar 24: Eight new positive coronavirus cases were confirmed in Karnataka on Tuesday, taking the tally to 41 in the state, the health department said.

"Till date 41 COVID-19 positive cases have been confirmed in the state which includes one death and 3 discharged," the department said.

According the department bulletin, 37 positive patients are in isolation at designated hospitals and their condition is stable.

Of the 41 confirmed cases, six are transit passengers hailing from Kerala who have landed in airports and being treated in Karnataka.

Among the eight passengers confirmed on Tuesday also three men and a woman are from Kasaragod in Kerala with a history of travel to Dubai and Saudi Arabia respectively.

All the four had landed in Mangaluru, where they are being treated.

The others are: two men, aged 40 and 65, from Uttara Kannada district in Karnataka with travel history to Dubai;

a 56-year-old woman, a resident of Chikkaballapura district, who is a family member and co-passenger of person who tested postive with travel history to Mecca, and a 56-year-old woman, resident of Bengaluru, a contact of another person who has tested positive for the virus,

Among the 41 cases, 24 has been reported from Bengaluru, five from Dakshina Kannada, three each from Kalaburgai and Chikkaballapura, two each from Mysuru and Uttara Kannada, and one each from Kodagu and Dharwad.

All the three discharged patients are from Bengaluru, while one death was reported in Kalaburagi earlier this month, which was the country's first COVID-19 related death.

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January 3,2020

Mangaluru, Jan 3: A young entrepreneur reportedly jumped off the Netravati bridge near Thokkottu on the outskirts of the city today morning.

The youth who allegedly committed suicide has been Navesh Kottari, 30, a resident of Ullalbail. He was the proprietor of N J Shamiyana.

The incident took place at around 6:30 a.m. Police and fire brigade rushed to the spot after sometime and launched search operation for the body in the river Netravati.

The body was retrieved in the afternoon.

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May 18,2020

Bengaluru, May 18: Senior Congress leader and former Union Minister Mallikarjuna Kharge on Monday slammed the State Government’s decision to appoint administrative committees to Panchayats, which completes their five-year term, shortly.

Speaking to media persons, the Congress leader described the State Government’s decision on appointing committees as a ‘death knell ‘ to the basic characters of the Panchayat bodies, which were elected on a non-party basis.

Strongly recommending the BJP-led government to desist from its decision, Kharge urged Chief minister B S Yediyurappa to extend the term of the elected bodies of the Panchayats by six months.

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