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Opposition targets me because it doesn’t know what development is: Anant Kumar Hegde

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April 3, 2019

Karwar, Apr 3: Union Minister of State for Skill Development Entrepreneurship Anant Kumar Hegde, along with his supporters, took out a procession in Karwar on Tuesday before filing his nomination papers for the elections to the Uttara Kannada Lok Sabha Constituency as BJP candidate.

The former Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar and MLAs and MLCs and BJP leaders accompanied the Union Minister in the procession from the BJP office in Karwar to the office of the Deputy Commissioner of Uttara Kannada and Election Officer.

Accompanied by his family members, Mr Hegde earlier offered puja at the Mahadev Temple in Baad locality of the city before taking out the procession. Sloganeering in support of Mr. Hegde and Prime Minister Narendra Modi was heard throughout the procession.

Addressing party workers at a function in Karwar on Tuesday, Mr. Hegde said that he has published a list of development works he had carried out and the details had also been hosted on his official website. “Anyone can visit the website to check the details,” he said.

Mr. Hegde argued that Uttara Kannada with an abundance of green treasure was not a district where urbanisation and industrialisation could be taken up.

He said that only green industries could come up in the district and without understanding the ground reality, the Opposition leaders who do not know what development meant were making allegations.

Taking a dig at Janata Dal (Secular), Mr. Jagadish Shettar said that that party was not just a father-and-sons party but a party of father, sons, grandsons and daughter in-laws.

Mr. Shettar accused Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy of not keeping his promise and sending recovery notices to farmers even after announcing a farm loan waiver. The reason for Revenue Minister R.V. Deshpande’s lack of interest in getting Uttara Kannada seat for Congress was that he had already realised that the Congress would not win the election there, he said.

MLAs Roopali Naik, Sunil Naik, Dinakar Shetty, Mahantesh Doddagoudar, MLC S.V. Sankanur, president of the party’s district unit K.G. Naik and other leaders participated.

Mr. Anantkumar Hegde has won five times from the constituency, and on Tuesday he filed his nomination papers for the seventh time.

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April 22,2020

Mangaluru, Apr 22: A team of officials raided the Big Bags International Pvt Ltd premises here on Tuesday following the apprehensions expressed by locals that the company has violated lockdown rules by resuming operations on April 20.

On Monday several workers of the firm from Kerala, Tumakuru and Bengaluru were reported to be at the premises to resume operations.

The raiding team asked the management to temporarily shut down operations and asked the workers to leave the place.

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April 4,2020

Bengaluru, Apr 4: The state government have taken all measures to ensure availability of essential supplies including foodgrains, in the state, Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa informed here on Saturday.

He was speaking to newsmen, after holding a meeting of the MLAs, MPs and others, where he had briefed over the measures taken by the state government to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 disease.

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March 28,2020

Kasaragod, Mar 28: A pregnant Bihari migrant woman in labour gave birth in an ambulance after the Karnataka police allegedly refused to allow the ambulance carrying her to cross the border road to Mangaluru to reach her hospital.

The border road was shut due to the lockdown. The woman used to consult a doctor in Mangaluru across the border.

As Karnataka police stopped the vehicle at the border in Talapady, saying no vehicle, including ambulances from Kerala, could be permitted to their state, the drivers decided to take the woman was taken to the general hospital here, but she went into labour and delivered a baby girl in the vehicle

Both the mother and baby are doing fine, authorities said.

Hailing from Patna in Bihar, 25-year-old Gowri Devi and her husband were working in a local plywood factory in this north Kerala district, from where the maximum number of coronavirus cases have been reported so far in the state.

Those living in the border towns and villages of Kasaragod are dependent on the hospitals in Mangaluru as it is nearer, local people said.

The ambulance drivers- Aslam and Musthafa- said they stopped the vehicle by the wayside, making it safe for the woman. The baby girl and the mother were soon shifted to the government general hospital here and both of them are safe and healthy, they said.

Local people complained that not only pregnant women, but even patients requiring daily dialysis and emergency cardiac and cancer treatment were being sent back by Karnataka.

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