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Rs 500 crore condom scam allegation a blatant lie: U T Khader

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September 29, 2016

Mangaluru, Sep 29: U T Khader, minister for food and civil supplies, on Thursday dismissed as a blatant lie the allegation by a Bharatiya Janata Party leader that the former was part of a Rs 500 crore condom scam.

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"It is a blatant and shameless lie," the Congress leader told reporters when his reaction was sought to BJP leader and former corporator NR Ramesh's fresh allegations.

Allegations by Ramesh

Mr Ramesh, who had earlier accused Mr Khader of involving in a Rs 14,000 core drug purchase scam, on Monday claimed that Karnataka health ministry had misused funds meant for condom distribution. According to him the scam took place when Mr Khader was the health and family welfare minister.

“The chief minister and the health minister are president and vice president of this society respectively. Most of the scam happened when Mr Khader was the health minister,” said Mr Ramesh.

He alleged that the Karnataka State Aids Prevention Society (KSAPS), which is under the state health ministry, had promoted condoms of a private company as a part of its Condom Social Marketing Programme. The society distributed these condoms from private company to women in flesh trade, he claimed.

Ready to face probe

Mr Khader said that neither he nor chief minister Siddaramaiah involved in any such scam. “This is not the first time Ramesh is making such baseless allegations against me. Even senior BJP leaders know the fact that he is a liar,” he said.

The minister said that it was the responsibility of the union government to purchase condoms through National Aids Control Organisation (NACO). Hence, one needs not to fear about misuse of funds by the State government.

Mr Khader also said he was ready for any kind of probe. “We never shy away from any enquiry. Let the probe happen. I say this confidently because I never indulge in such activities,” he said.

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Ahmed K. C.
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Friday, 30 Sep 2016

BJP is filled with thugs of RSS and Bajrangdal. Lies are birth right of these people. They want to accuse with fabricated stories, then keep chanting until it looks like a truth who believe blindly.

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August 1,2020

Bengaluru, Jul 31: A total of 5,483 new COVID-19 cases and 84 deaths were reported in Karnataka in the last 24 hours, the state's health department informed on Friday.

Karnataka now has a total of 1,24,115 coronavirus cases, including 72,005 active cases and 49,788 discharges.
So far, 2,134 deaths have been reported from the state.

Meanwhile, India reported the highest single-day spike of 55,079 COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, crossing the 16-lakh mark, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare informed on Friday.

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June 5,2020

Bengaluru, June 5: Under the leadership of trouble-shooter D K Shivakumar, the Karnataka Congress is planning a political ‘ghar wapsi’ to bring back leaders who quit the party and also rope in those from other parties.

Shivakumar, the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) president, has constituted a 12-member committee headed by former minister Allum Veerabhadrappa to liaise to anchor this effort to bring back people into the party fold. 

The committee comprises of former legislators B A Hasanabba, Ajaykumar Sarnaik, Abhaychandra Jain, Satish Sail, Prafulla Madhukar, former MPs R Dhruvanarayan and BN Chandrappa, MLA V Muniyappa, former mayor Sampath Raj, Mahila Congress leader Kripa Alva and former KPCC general secretary V Y Ghorpade. 

This move comes more than a year after over a dozen Congress MLAs defected and joined the BJP, leading to the collapse of the Congress-JD(S) coalition government. Also, several influential leaders quit the party ahead of the Lok Sabha elections last year.

The constitution of this committee also coincides with disgruntlement brewing within the ruling BJP. 

“Many people who left the party and others have applied (to join Congress). Many have met me also. I felt it wouldn't be right for me to make a decision. So, this committee has been constituted,” Shivakumar said. “They will process all applications and send it to the KPCC.” 

According to Shivakumar, any person wanting to join the Congress should accept the party’s leadership and its ideology. “Importantly, they should be first accepted by the cadre. If there's no acceptance from the cadre, then what's the point?” he said.

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Abdullah
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Saturday, 6 Jun 2020

should not vote them even if they return to congress. They are backstabbers of voters.

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January 1,2020

Mangaluru, Jan 1: On the first day of 2020, Bajpe Police became somewhat of a Guardian Angel for a college student, who was wandering around the city in the wee hours of Wednesday, convincing and escorting him to his home safely, after coming to know about his residence.

According to Bajpe Police Probationary Sub-Inspector Anita Nikkam and Police Officer Devappa Hosamani, they noticed a youth, hailing from Handelu in Todaru and studying in a college at Moodbidri, wandering at around 0245 hrs.

When asked about his whereabouts, the boy did not respond initially. However, police managed to collect his address and his mother's phone number after half an hour of interrogation.

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