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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May 12,2020

Bengaluru, May 12: The South Western Railway on Tuesday informed that a 'Shramik special train' has left Karnataka for Bihar carrying 1,428 migrants onboard.

The special train carrying migrants to Motihari, Bihar departed from Kabaka Puttur in Karnataka.

Passengers were observing social distancing norms during boarding.

Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) had recently granted permission for movement of stranded citizens including migrants labourers, workers, students, tourists to return to their native towns.

As per the list provided by the Karnataka government, South Western Railway is arranging special trains. These special trains are being run from point to point with no stoppages en-route.

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January 24,2020

Bengaluru, Jan 24: Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa on Friday said the much-delayed Cabinet expansion will take place in the next three days.

At the Kempegowda International Airport, after his arrival from Davos, he informed that he would discuss the matter with Union Home Minister Amit Shah to take a final decision on the distribution of important portfolios.

Deputy CM Ashwanath Narayna, Home Minister Basavaraj Bommai and others received the Chief Minister at the airport. The issue of Cabinet expansion was kept in abeyance, ever since the spectacular victory of 12 Assembly seats for BJP, for which the by-elections were held recently. The bypolls were necessitated, following the resignation of about 17 sitting Congress and JD (S) MLAs, which resulted in the collapse of the JDS-Congress coalition government in the state.

BJP had reportedly lured the Congress and JD (S) MLAs into their camp, after promising them to give party ticket to contest the elections, as well as ministerial berths. The Chief Minister had kept as many as 16 Cabinet berths, along with plum portfolios, vacant, after forming the BJP government, with the support of the deserted Congress and JD (S) MLAs, in July last. However, the issue of Cabinet expansion had postponed on one reason or the other, as Yediyurappa was struggling to keep the promise he had made to the former Congress and the JDS MLAs, on whose sacrifice the BJP came back to power.

With the strong demand for ministerial berths within the loyal BJP MLAs, the BJP high command had reportedly advised Yediyurappa to accommodate only a few of the turncoat MLAs and strike balance between the groups.

However, Yediyurappa, who had assured the Congress and JD (S) MLAs of giving them Cabinet berths, had been in dilemma ever since and found it tough to convince the party's Central leaders.

According to party sources, the Chief Minister is not only facing problems over the expansion of his Cabinet, but is also worried over the demand for creation of more number of Deputy Chief Ministers, adding to the present list of three.

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May 27,2020

Kasaragod, May 27: In a tragic incident, two persons, who were brothers, died of asphyxiation while trying to rescue a calf that fell in their well at Bandhiyod near here on Wednesday.

Police sources said the elder brother Narayanan (50) entered into the well first to save the calf that fell in the well early in the morning.

His brother Sankaran (40) also followed suit after he noticed his brother fainting deep down the well. However, he also fainted inside the well.

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