C T Ravi accused of illegally acquiring forest land

October 28, 2012

ctravi Mangalore, October 28: Accusing Higher Education and Dakshina Kannada district in-charge minister CT Ravi of amassing wealth in illegal way, Dakshina Kannada district Congress has warned to release documents related to his involvement in acquiring 150 acres of forest land in Chikmagalur district.

Addressing a press meet here on Saturday, former Congress MLA K Vijayakumar Shetty revealed that the BJP leader encroached forest land for mining which is run by latter's nephew Sudarshan near Marle village of Chikmagalur.

He said that Mr Ravi has illegally acquired 75 cents of land for Anjaneya Education Seva Trust run by his wife Pallavi.

“Lokayukta has submitted a report against Ravi for encroaching the government's land, but still the government has not confiscated it from the minister. Within three days, we will release the documents pertaining to Ravi's involvement in acquiring a lake near his coffee estate in Chikmagalur and Ravi's involvement in carrying out quarrying in 150 acres forest land which has been encroached by him," he said.

Ravi in his declaration to Lokayukta in 2004 showed that he owned property worth Rs 10 lakh and in 2011, it was properties worth Rs 2 crore, Mr Shetty said.

"AICC president Sonia Gandhi on her visit to the city recently had said that Karnataka government has not maintained proper accounts of funds released by the central government to the state. It is unfortunate that Ravi criticized Sonia terming her auditor. If Ravi continues to attack Sonia, Congress workers will gherao him when he comes to Dakshina Kannada district," he warned.

Congress leaders P V Mohan and Ashraf were also present at press meet.

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Raghavendra Kini is the new chairman of Udupi Urban Development Authority

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June 26,2020

Udupi, June 26: BJP leader K Raghavendra Kini has been appointed as the new Chairman of Udupi Urban Development Authority (UUDA) by Government of Karnataka.

A well-known businessman, Raghavendra Kini is also serving as the president of Kunjibettu Consumers’ Multipurpose Co-operative Union.

Along with him, the State Government has appointed Suma Naika, Praveen Kumar Shetty and Kishor Kumar as members of the Authority.

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Karnataka govt puts on hold decision to drop some chapters from social science textbooks

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July 31,2020

Bengaluru, Jul 31: The Karnataka government on Wednesday put on hold a controversial proposal to drop certain chapters, including on Islam, Christianity, Tipu Sultan and his father Hyder Ali, from social science textbooks to reduce the 2020-21 syllabi for students in classes 1-10.

Citing the COVID-19 pandemic and the disruption caused to the academic calendar of the year, the government had earlier dropped the chapter on Tipu Sultan and Hyder Ali from the Class 7 social science textbook, saying chapters on Tipu Sultan have been retained in the Class 6 and 10 textbooks.

The move did not go down well with the opposition, which saw certain ulterior motives behind the decision.

Apparently under sharp criticism, the Department of Public Instruction issued a new notification on Wednesday "on the directions of the Karnataka Primary and Secondary Education Minister S Suresh Kumar".

There is a delay in opening the schools during the academic year 2020-21 due to COVID-19 pandemic, said the latest order.

In this context, the order said, chapters were dropped to fit in 120 days of the academic year for classes 1 to 10 and the same was published in the department's website.

"However, on the directions of the Minister for Primary and Secondary Education, the decision to drop certain chapters has been put on hold. A review will be done following which the deleted chapters will be uploaded in the website," the order read.

Earlier in the day, Mr Kumar had issued a statement, saying that the decision to truncate the syllabus has not been finalised yet. He also made it clear that his department would not remove chapters unnecessarily.

Former chief minister and Congress leader Siddaramaiah had attacked the government on the issue.

"The government, which has failed to control the spread of coronavirus, is using it as an opportunity to push its clandestine agenda of saffronising the textbooks," Siddaramaiah tweeted.

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19 Cong MLAs lodged in Bengaluru not willing to support Scindia nor in favour of BJP: Sajjan Singh

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March 11,2020

Bhopal, Mar 11: After meeting with 19 party MLAs who have tendered their resignations, Congress leader Sajjan Singh Verma on Wednesday said they are neither willing to support Jyotiraditya Scindia nor in favour of joining BJP as they were "misled and taken to Bengaluru" in Karnataka.

"Nobody is ready to go with Scindia ji. They said they were misled and taken to Bengaluru, most of them said they are not ready to join BJP," Verma told media persons on being asked about the 19 MLAs.

"I just came from Bengaluru and now I am going to Jaipur. Besides 5-6 ministers and one MLA, we all are going to Jaipur. They (MLAs) have said they have the blood of Congress and they will remain in the party.
Since Scindia was a senior party leader, all our MLAs followed his order as a courtesy," he said.

The Congress leader further claimed that BJP is using both "muscle and money power" to influence Congress MLAs.

He also claimed that he is strongly in contact with 7-8 BJP MLAs.

On Tuesday, Congress sent two of its leaders -- Verma and Govind Singh -- to Bengaluru in order to pacify some of the rebel MLAs who are lodged in a hotel there and who claimed to have resigned from the state Legislative Assembly.

Most of the rebel MLAs are perceived close to Scindia and are apparently unhappy at Scindia being "ignored" in the party. The grand old party has been witnessing an internal turf war in Madhya Pradesh since the party formed the government in the state in 2018.

Scindia is likely to join BJP later today.

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