Youths unite to fight against moral policing

September 1, 2012
Mangalore, September 1: Hundreds of youths in the city raised collective voice against moral policing at a massive protest rally organised by the youth and student wings of various political parties sans BJP condemning the ill-famous homestay attack of July 28.

Members and supporters of Youth Congress, NSUI, SFI, DYFI, AISF, VJD(S), AIYF, and other like-minded student and youth organisations took out a rally from the Ambedkar Circle and converged in front of the office of Deputy Commissioner.

The agitators came down heavily on BJP led state government, its home minister R Ashok and police department for failing take stringent action against the 'goons' who molested girls and thrashed boys at Morning Mist Homestay in the city more than a month ago.

Speaking on the occasion DYF district president Muneer Katipalla said that the young and educated generation of Mangalore should teach a lesson to moral police and saffron brigades, who justify their criminal activities in the name of protecting culture.

Terming the saffron outfits as anti-national groups, he said that they after committing crime deny their role in it.

Responding to the allegation of saffron outfits that sex tourism and drug mafia are growing in twin districts of coastal Karnataka, he questioned why could not the BJP, which is in power in the state, could not crackdown on such menaces instead of provoking the people.

Condemning the attack, Youth Congress district president Mithun Rai, said the culprits had still not been booked under Goonda Act even after a month.

“We cannot tolerate if the goons continued to violate the rights of region's youth. Retaliation on spot is the only way to stop such illegal moral policing”, he said.

He called upon the youths belonging to all communities and parties to keep aside their differences and unite to fight against the anti-social elements.

Ivan D'Souza, Sunil Kumar Bajal, Dayanand Shetty, Preetham and Praveenchandra Alva, Ashith Pereira, Nitin Kuthar, Yogish Kumar, and Satish Bantwal were also present on the occasion.

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January 8,2020

Udupi, Jan 8: Senior journalist Raviraj Valalambe passed away due to suspected cardiac arrest on Tuesday night at his residence in Kinnimulki, here. He was 50.

Raviraj was rushed to a hospital after he complained of chest pain. He breathed his last on way to medical facility.

He was the director of Prime TV, a local Kannada news channel.

He had worked as a reporter for ETV and Suvarna News channel earlier.

He is survived by wife and two daughters.

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May 12,2020

Bengaluru, May 12: Former chief minister and senior Congress leader Siddaramaiah on Tuesday said that the Central and Karnataka government have failed in containing the coronavirus spread despite having enough time for preparations.

"Central and state government failed in properly controlling COVID-19. The first coronavirus case was reported in Kerala on January 30. Lockdown was imposed on March 24. Both Centre and state had enough time for preparations," Siddaramaiah said in a press meet here.

He said that the Central government did not stop the airline services on time.

"Karnataka government might have been able to stop COVID-19 properly. However, both the state and central government are playing politics over the issue and blaming Tablighi Jamaat for the spread, which is a political strategy painted by the RSS," Siddaramaiah said.

"Who gave the licence to Tablighi's international convention? Who gave them permission in Delhi? They didn't control it. Central government is directly responsible for the increasing numbers of COVID-19 cases in India," he added.

Siddaramaiah said that the lockdown was imposed without any preparation, which he said caused huge problems for the migrant workers across the country.

"Now, the government is collecting ticket fare and looting migrant workers. They don't have jobs or food, they don't have money, and they earn every day to survive. How will they pay for the tickets? Why the government is not arranging for free trains?" the Congress leader said.

He said that around Rs 35,000 crore have been credited to PM CARES fund, Rs 3,000 crore of which was credited from Karnataka alone. "Why are they not using that money?" he asked.

Siddaramaiah said that the party is demanding for the Centre to arrange for migrant workers to return to their native places across the country free of cost.

"We asked Chief Minister to call an all party meeting. We gave many suggestions, which this government did not consider. We also took a delegation and gave a memorandum about farmers, daily wage workers, road side vendors, barbers, problems faced by the unorganized sector. But this government didn't consider any of it," he said.

Questioning the Central government's suggestion to States to amend their Agricultural Produce Market Committee (APMC) Acts, Siddaramaiah said that the move is against the federal system of the country and claimed that it harms the interests of small scale farmers.

He said that the BJP-led state government has also decided to postpone the Gram panchayat elections in the state and is trying to nominate their party workers for village panchayat elections.

"The Government must continue with the present members of the Gram panchayat. If BJP tries to nominate their party members to village panchayats, we will take to streets to protest despite the lockdown," Siddaramaiah added.

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May 30,2020

Mangalore, May 30: The first chartered flight to the city of Mangalore, Karnataka in South India is scheduled to depart from the Ras Al Khaimah airport of UAE on June 1.

The SpiceJet flight, chartered by Praveen Shetty, chairman of the Fortune Group of Hotels and president of the Karnataka non-Resident Indian Forum (KNRI), will repatriate 105 staff members of the hotel group, who have been placed on leave, according to a statement issued here on Saturday.

Consul General of India to Dubai Vipul confirmed the reports and said the flight, which will depart at 0945 hrs, will carry home a total of 180 passengers.

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