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Now, pressure on Siddaramaiah to contest from North Karnataka

DHNS
September 19, 2017

Bengaluru, Sept 19: A section of Congress leaders is said to be mounting pressure on Chief Minister Siddaramaiah to contest from North Karnataka region in the next Assembly polls to counter the BJP, which is planning to field its chief ministerial candidate B S Yeddyurappa from the region.

Excise Minister R B Timmapura has reportedly urged Siddaramaiah to contest from any of the constituencies in Bagalkot district. Similarly, senior leader and former minister Satish Jharkiholi is learnt to have requested Siddaramaiah to contest from Athani constituency in Belagavi district.

The leaders are of the view that Siddaramaiah contesting from North Karnataka will not only help the party counter Yeddyurappa if the he decides to contest from a constituency in North Karnataka but also boosts the morale of the Congress workers in the region. The party high command has already declared that the next election will be fought under Siddaramaiah’s leadership.

Congress sources said Siddaramaiah had been planning to contest from the Chamundeshwari constituency in Mysuru district in the next polls, leaving the Varuna seat to his son Dr Yatindra. It is also speculated that the party may ask him to contest from two places – one from south and another from North Karnataka. Currently, Siddaramaiah is a MLA from Varuna.

Speaking to reporters on Monday, KPCC working president S R Patil said the party workers are demanding that Siddaramaiah should contest from a constituency in Bagalkot district in the next election. But nothing has been finalised yet, he added.

Patil also said the BJP’s decision to field Yeddyurappa from North Karnataka will not have any impact on the Congress in the election. “Why Yeddyurappa? Let both Modi (Prime Minister Narendra Modi) and Amit Shah (BJP national president) contest from North Karnataka. The Congress is not worried,” he stated.

Ready contest from anywhere: CM

Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said on Monday that he was open to the idea of contesting the next Assembly election from north Karnataka.

“Many people have invited me to contest from North Karnataka. Once in the past, I contested the Lok Sabha elections from Koppal. I’m ready to contest from any part of the state. The final decision will be taken by the party high command,” Siddaramaiah told reporters in Chikkaballapur where he inaugurated various developmental works.

In the 1991 Lok Sabha polls, Siddaramaiah, then a Janata Dal candidate, lost to the Congress’ Basavaraj Patil Anwari from Koppal.

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Manjunath
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Tuesday, 19 Sep 2017

Conning-ress does not want to be left behind any Band Wagon, always says we too have done it, like it falsely stated about Surgical Strikes

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February 17,2020

Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 17: Out of the total 418 samples of suspect coronavirus cases sent for testing to National Institute of Virology from Kerala, 405 have come out as negative, while the results for the rest, barring three, are awaited.

"Out of three persons in whom the disease was confirmed, two persons have been discharged. One person is stable and the repeat sample results are awaited," according to a release by the Health and Family Welfare Department of the Kerala government.

The release added that till Sunday a total of 2,276 people have been placed under surveillance, "out of which 2262 are under home isolation and 14 are admitted in designated isolation facilities."

The health condition of all symptomatic people under isolation is stable, according to the release.

The release added that the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (Centre) has informed the Kerala government that 115 people belonging to Kerala are currently in quarantine in two camps in Delhi.

These 115 people have been tested and found negative for coronavirus and they will be allowed to travel back to Kerala on Monday evening.

The people have been requested to remain in home isolation upon their return.

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June 15,2020

Mangaluru, Jun 15: A father and his four-year-old son were killed when their motorcycle was hit by a lorry from behind at Bakampady junction on the outskirts of the city.

The Police said the deceased has been identified as Abdul Bhasheer, a resident of Krishnapura and his son Shayan. 

On Sunday evening, Bahseer was going from Mangaluru to Krishnapura by the motorcycle along with wife and son when a speeding lorry "dashed into the motorcycle from behind and knocked them down''.

The four-year-old son died on the spot while Basher and his wife were rushed to the hospital. However, the husband succumbed to injuries at the hospital on Monday. Local police registered a case in this connection.

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April 28,2020

Mangaluru, Apr 28: Trucks carrying fish loads from Kerala will not be allowed to enter Dakshina Kannada district as the authorities are not being able to control the rush in markets, state Fisheries Minister and district-in-charge Kota Srinivas Poojary said Monday.

The deputy commissioner has been instructed to restrict the entry of fish transport vehicles from outside the district forthwith, in view of the difficulty in maintaining social distancing at the markets identified in the district, the minister told reporters here.

The coastal district has to take more precautionary measures to fight COVID-19 as the number of positive cases have risen in the last couple of days, he said.

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