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Union ministers assigned for BJP work in Karnataka to tour districts

DHNS
September 19, 2017

New Delhi, Sep 19: Two Union ministers --Prakash Javadekar and Piyush Goel-- who have been deputed to Karnataka by BJP chief Amit Shah --are to undertake a tour of districts for feedback from district leaders and workers to fine-tune the party's election strategy.

Javadekar is to tour Hyderabad-Karnataka districts of Bidar, Kalburgi, Raichur, Yadagiri and Bellari for three days from September 21. Goel's programme will be announced later.

The Union HRD Minister said there has been an immediate improvement in the BJP's internal cohesion following party chief Amit Shah's interactions and dialogue with the state BJP leaders and workers last month.

"There is complete unity of purpose among the Team BJP, which is ready for the electoral battle as many issues have been sorted out at various levels," Javadekar told DH.

The HRD Minister recalled that he and Railway Minister Piyush Goel had the opportunity recently to listen to more than 200 party leaders who gave a number of suggestions and ideas on ways to improve the BJP's preparations."All their proposals were of positive nature and not one of them had made any negative suggestion or complaint against anyone. They want the party to win handsomely. Karnataka BJP is more united than before." 

Refusing to go into details, Javadekar said "the unity of purpose will see BJP candidates are selected by the party's election committee on the basis of sheer merit. All apprehensions about one group or the other dominating the selection process will be misplaced."

He said the central thrust of the BJP campaign will be to highlight the "failures" of the Congress government in the state in the last five years as well as on what Karnataka can gain when the state starts implementing various programmes of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government under the party's administration.

Javadekar said emotive issues that were sought to be raised by the Congress would not click as "the people of Karnataka are yearning for a total change and they will not appreciate the attempts to divide them on the basis of language, groups and sub-groups." 

He said Chief Minister Siddaramaiah's last-minute rollout of welfare schemes would not also alter the mood of the people, especially farmers and the poor people. "People are asking why the state government waited so long for these schemes."

"Our target is to win more 150 seats and Team BJP will sincerely work for that goal. There is new found confidence. Once our campaign moves into full gear, the people will sense the mood for a change in a more telling way," Javadekar said.

Javadekar said attempts to rake up issues like the imposition of Hindi by the BJP-led Centre would not cut ice as "our government respects all regional languages including Kannada."

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July 31,2020

Bengaluru, July 31: Denying irregularities in covid-19 equipment purchase by the Karnataka government, the state unit of the BJP has issued legal notices to Congress leaders Siddaramaiah and D K Shivakumar demanding that they apologize or face a defamation suit. 

The notices seek a public apology for the allegations levelled against the government on irregularities in the procurement of Covid-19 equipment and supplies. 

Both Siddaramaiah and Shivakumar, the Karnataka Congress president, have been doggedly pursuing allegations of corruption against the BJP government and have demanded a judicial inquiry. 

BJP general secretary N Ravi Kumar said that while the Congress leaders claimed that Rs 4,157 crore was spent during Covid-19, they also allege that the government has not responded to any of the 20 letters written by them. "If the government has not provided any answer to the Opposition, where did they get the figures from," he said.

None of the allegations of corruption is specific and the statements made are factually incorrect. "These statements, without any basis, have been issued calculatedly to lower the image and damage the reputation of the government, the Bharatiya Janata Party, representatives of the party and the ministers in the government," the notice issued on behalf of Ravi Kumar read.

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January 16,2020

Bengaluru, Jan 16: It was necessary to revise rates under the ECHS, CGHS and GIPSA schemes for private hospitals to be able to sustain, doctors from private hospitals have opined.

Under the banner of the Association of Healthcare Providers of India (AHPI), doctors from top private hospitals in the city spoke about the dues pending from the union government schemes. They said they could not give a deadline as to when they would stop offering the scheme.

In a press release issued here on Thursday association said, which had previously told the government that they would not treat patients under the scheme owing to dues, mellowed down after the government released Rs 250 crore out of the Rs 1,000 crore dues.

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May 1,2020

Bengaluru, May 1: As Mumbai link surfacing in some COVID-19 cases in Mandya district in Karnataka, JDS leader and former chief minister H D Kumaraswamy on Friday blamed the district administration for the situation, accusing it of not quarantining 7,000 labourers who 'returned' from the Maharashtra capital.

"The information we have is that there are about 16,000 labourers from Mandya were working in Mumbai of which 7,000 people reached the district. None of them was quarantined properly," Kumaraswamy told reporters in Bengaluru.

He claimed the district, a stronghold of JDS, was staring at a major spurt in cases due to the careless attitude of the district administration. "Government should initiate action against those who are responsible for the laxity," he said.

However, he did not specify when the 7,000 workers returned to Mandya. When asked about Kumaraswamy's claim, officials said they have to verify it. Of the eight cases reported from Mandya on Friday, three had a travel history to Mumbai, a major COVID-19 hotspot in the country, officials said.

A Health Department official said four of the fresh cases were contacts of a patient who tested positive on April 8 and admitted to a hospital. After weeks of coming in contact with him, the four were confirmed for COVID-19, an official said. The Three people with travel history to Mumbai had, in fact, brought the body of a man who died of a heart attack there on April 24, the official added.

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