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No Ahinda push in Congress manifesto, says Moily

DHNS
October 25, 2017

Bengaluru, Oct 25: With the ruling Congress looking to expand its vote base ahead of the 2018 Assembly polls, the party’s manifesto is likely to be more broad-based without reflecting Chief Minister Siddaramaiah’s Ahinda focus.

Ahinda is a Kannada acronym for minorities, backward classes and dalits.

“Social justice pervades many sections of people cutting across caste and community,” Karnataka Pradesh Congress Manifesto Committee chairman and MP M Veerappa Moily told DH on Tuesday. “Nobody should feel let down. Everyone has to feel a sense of belonging to the Congress party and its ideology,” he said.

Siddaramaiah is widely considered an Ahinda leader. Since coming to power, the state government has launched several welfare schemes in line with its Ahinda focus.

The state government’s yet-to-be-published caste census report is likely to be discussed at the maiden meeting of the manifesto committee on October 29, Moily said.

Moily, a former Union minister, was convener of the committee that drafted the Congress manifesto for the 2009 Lok Sabha elections in which the UPA came back to power.

As part of the manifesto preparation process for the 2018 Assembly polls, Moily said several subject groups will be formed with focus areas. “One group will be tasked with reviewing the government’s performance. Sincerity is an important backdrop,” the former chief minister said.

The manifesto committee will tour the state and reach out to stakeholders so that discussions are not confined to party workers.

“We have to maintain an equal balance. Urban areas, too, have vulnerable sections,” he said. Party units in each district will be asked to send in suggestions “so that the manifesto will have a flavour of the ground,” he said.

At a press conference on Tuesday, Moily gave full marks to the Siddaramaiah-led government.

“It’s the best government in India right now,” he said. He went on to slam the BJP-led NDA government at the Centre for its “inexperience” and “misgovernance” of the economy, holding demonetisation and GST as examples.

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March 11,2020

Kalaburagi, Mar 11: A suspected coronavirus patient who had returned to Kalaburagi from Saudi Arabia on February 29 passed away today in hospital.

It is said he was admitted to the hospital on March 5 after he showed flu symptoms. But, the family members of the patient had shifted him to Hyderabad from GIMS on Tuesday against the advice of the doctors.

However, the district administration and District Health Officer (DHO) M A Jabbar are waiting for the final report of throat swab of the patient sent for lab test.

The DHO has directed Taluk Health Officer Sharanabasappa Kyatanal to supervise until the final rites of the suspect person were performed.

Kalaburagi Deputy Commissioner B Sharat said the patient died on Tuesday night on his way back to Kalaburagi after the doctor stated that chances of his survival was bleak. "It is still a suspected coronavirus case. We are waiting for the report," he said.

Sharat said he developed severe respiratory problem coupled with cough, cold and fever. "As he was 76-year-old, he failed to respond to the treatment. It is yet to be confirmed if the cause of death was coronavirus," he said.

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March 5,2020

Bengaluru, Mar 5: Flipkart co-founder Sachin Bansal's wife Priya Bansal has filed a dowry harassment case against the entrepreneur at Kormangala police station in Bengaluru, sources said.

Priya alleged that ahead of their wedding, her father had spent Rs 50 lakh for the arrangements and given Rs 11 lakh in cash to Sachin instead of a car. Further, she has also alleged that Sachin has been pressurising her to transfer all the properties that were in her name to him. However, after refusing to do so her in-laws started harassing her.

A First Information Report (FIR) has been filed against Sachin and three others at Kormangala police station in Bengaluru.

The police are investigating the matter.

Further details awaited.

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March 26,2020

Bengaluru, Mar 26: The number of COVI D-19 cases in Karnataka spiked to 55 on Thursday after four new cases were reported. 

According to official sources, a 35-year-old man, who was a resident of Nanjanagud town in Mysuru taluk and worked in a pharma unit, tested positive for coronavirus. 

He had been quarantined in his home and efforts are being made to track down as many as seven persons, who had primary contact with 
him.

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