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Quota policy has to continue as long as caste system exists: CM

DHNS
August 21, 2017

Bengaluru, Aug 21: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Sunday said the reservation policy will have to continue as long as caste system exists in society.

Speaking after presenting the D Devaraj Urs Award-2017 to former Union Minister M Mallikarjun Kharge at the Vidhana Soudha in Bengaluru, Siddaramaiah blamed the BJP for working against equality in society and charged the party of taking a stand against reservation.

He said “real independence” can be achieved only if there is social and economic freedom for all. The chief minister accused the BJP of trying to scuttle the rights of states on deciding on reservation for communities by proposing to give constitutional status to the National Commission for Other Backward Classes.

He sought to know how many times BJP president Amit Shah had spoken in favour of reservation. Even senior BJP leaders such as L K Advani had opposed the recommendations of the Mandal Commission, he said.

Kharge even accused the BJP to trying to tamper with the Constitution to do away with reservation.

Siddaramaiah accused the BJP of opposing pro-people and pro-poor policies of the state government such as Anna Bhagya scheme of providing free rice to BPL families and Indira canteen set up to help the poor get meals at affordable rates.

“No Indira canteen has come up in areas declared as play grounds or parks as claimed by the BJP. Elite clubs have come up in parks, however the BJP is not opposing them. The party only targets the poor,” he charged.

‘Beware of the BJP’

At another event to celebrate Urs’ 102nd birth anniversary organised by the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee at Sir Puttanna Chetty Town Hall in Bengaluru, party working president Dinesh Gundu Rao urged Congress workers to beware of the BJP. The BJP is capable of hatching a conspiracy of adulterating food served at the canteens to scuttle the scheme, he charged.

The Devaraj Urs Award, instituted by the state government, carries a purse of Rs 2 lakh and a citation. After receiving the award, Kharge turned emotional while recalling his days as a minister in the Urs’ Cabinet.

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January 20,2020

Mangaluru, Jan 20: A suspicious unattended laptop bag with the suspicion of containing “something harmful” was found abandoned at the Mangaluru International Airport on Monday.

The bag was found kept in the rest area meant for the passengers outside the airport. According to reports, two men came in auto and left the bag near the ticket counter, which is near the VIP vehicles parking area.

The bag, which was lying unattended near the entrance of the airport was removed from the spot by the airport security personnel at 8.45 am.

Bomb detection squad personnel has rushed to the spot and shifted the bag to a safe zone, said Mangaluru Commissioner of Police P S Harsha.

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May 9,2020

Mangaluru, Ma 9: Three more persons from Bantwal taluk in Dakshina Kannada district tested positive for Covid-19 today. All three are members of a family.

The infection is reportedly linked to First Neuro Hospital of Mangaluru, which has emerged as a coronavirus hub in coastal Karnataka.

With this, the total number of coronavirus cases in the district mounted to 31 including six outsiders. Three of them have lost their lives. Currently there are 15 active cases in the district.

The newly identified coronavirus patients are a 30-year-old man and two elderly women aged 60 and 70 years.

They have contracted the infection from a 69-year-old man from Bantwal who was confirmed with COVID-19 infection on May 1. All the three members now infected belong to his family.

The man had got the infection from a woman identified as P-390. He happens to be a relative and neighbour of the deceased woman who belonged to Bantwal Kasaba village. Eight  members of his family were quarantined, of whom three tested positive today.

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January 15,2020

Hubballi, Jan 15: Leaders of the Muslim community, Dalit organisations, Congress Party, and others are staging a hunger strike at Dr B R Ambedkar Circle in Hubballi, opposing the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and National Register of Citizens (NRC).

Raising slogans against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah, they demanded the withdrawal of the CAA and not to implement NRC.

"India is witnessing such a dictatorship for the first time. The BJP government is trying to divide people into the lines of religion, through CAA and NRC. This move is a threat for peace and harmony in the country," said AICC member Shakir Sanadi, who led the protest.

Sayed Tajuddin Quadri, Moulana Niyaz Alam, Moulana Nayimuddin and others took part in the hunger strike.

Former minister A M Hindasgeri, former MP I G Sanadi, F H Jakkappanavar, Pitambrappa Bilar, and others also extended support to the protest.

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