Siddu-Kharge meet sets tongues wagging

March 27, 2016

Bengaluru, Mar 27: Senior Congress leader and former Union Minister Mallikarjun Kharge and Chief Minister Siddaramaiah have never seen eye-to-eye. KHARGE

The Kharge camp has always felt that it was Siddaramaiah who came in the way of their leader from becoming the chief minister of the state in 2013. There has been a buzz in the State Congress that Kharge will replace Siddaramaiah before the 2018 Assembly polls.

So on Saturday when Kharge called on Siddaramaiah at the latter's home office it raised eyebrows in the Congress camp and also speculation in the opposition BJP.

The two were closeted together for an hour. Speaking to reporters after the meeting, Kharge said he had discussed pending projects in Hyderabad-Karnataka region including the Wadi-Gadag railway line, Narayanapur Right Bank Canal, industrial zones, among others, with the chief minister.

To a query on the setting up of the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), for which Siddaramaiah had come at the receiving end from various quarters, Kharge was all support to the chief minister.

He said, “The concept is not confined to Karnataka but exists in 15 states including several BJP?ruled states.... The government has clarified that the powers of the Lokayukta have not being curtailed. There is no need for any controversy or confusion.” He also said the Congress high command had not taken exception to the decision to constitute the ACB.

On Congress leaders including S M?Krishna, Janardhana Poojary opposing the setting up of the ACB, Kharge said, “I have placed my views from what knowledge I have.... We have to trust the chief minister.... If somebody does not want to trust, it is up to them.” He said if some Congress legislators have concerns regarding the move to set up the ACB, they can raise it in the legislature party meeting.

The BJP had its own interpretation regarding the new found bonhomie between the two leaders. BJP MLC?G?Madhusudhan said Kharge had met Siddaramaiah to impress upon him not to table the Karnataka Minority Commission report on encroachment of wakf property in the Legislative Council.

“Kharge's name is there in the list and he wants Siddaramaiah to save him. We want to save wakf property,” he said.
Kharge flatly denied the BJP's charge.

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Orange alert in Dakshina Kannada as southwest monsoon hits Kerala

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June 1,2020

Manglauru, Jun 1: The southwest monsoon has made an onset over Kerala, marking the commencement of the four-month long rainfall season, the India Meteorological Department said on Monday.

"The southwest monsoon has made an onset over Kerala," IMD director general Mrutyunjay Mohapatra said.

The four-month monsoon season from June to September accounts for 75 per cent of rainfall in the country.

Private forecaster Skymet Weather on May 30 had declared arrival of monsoon, but the IMD had differed, saying conditions were not ripe then for such an announcement.

Orange alert

Meanwhile, coastal Karnataka’s Dakshina Kannada district, which is receiving sporadic rains for past couple of days, is on orange alert.

Deputy Commissioner Sindhu B Rupesh declared the orange alert following IMD’s prediction of heavy rainfall in the region.

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Oscar Fernandes shares story of cow urine curing cancer in Rajya Sabha

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March 19,2020

New Delhi, Mar 19: Senior Congress leader Oscar Fernandes on Wednesday extolled the virtues of 'gaumutra' and shared an anecdote about a man claiming to have cured his cancer by drinking cow urine to drive his point home.

Participating in a debate in Rajya Sabha on two bills for setting up national commissions for homoeopathy and Indian systems of medicine, the former Union minister said, "My extreme friend Jairam Ramesh pulls my leg, when I talk of 'gaumutra'."

Sharing an anecdote, Fernandes said once during a visit to an ashram near Meerut he had met a person who claimed to have cured his cancer by drinking 'gaumutra'.

Many BJP leaders have earlier spoken about the healing power of 'gaumutra'. The Congress has reacted sharply to such remarks.

He also praised the virtues of the Indian systems of medicine. He said when he had severe pain in knee joint and doctors had suggested for replacement surgery. However, he refused and started doing 'Vajrasana'.

"I started Vajrasana, practising yoga, and today I am able to do wrestling without any difficulty," the septuagenarian leader said.

"When (former) prime minister (Atal Bihari) Vajypee ji had a knee surgery, I thought if I had known him earlier, I would have definitely gone to him and ask him to follow 'Vajrasan' and it could have been cured," he said.

He also claimed to have met a person in US aged around 104 years and moving swiftly as a young man.

"Yoga is our wealth. If you practise yoga, may be our budget cost of health can be reduced by 50 per cent. It's way of life," he said.

"Our own Indian systems of medicine will provide a lot of reliefs even before going to a doctor," he said.

Though Fernandes supported the bills but raised objection over the exclusion of yoga and naturopathy.

"I would urge the minister either to amend the bill or bring an assurance that it will bring a separate legislation to cover yoga and naturopathy," he said.

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