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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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June 12,2020

Bengaluru, June 12: The Karnataka government has withdrawn its notification that allowed factories to extend working hours up to 10 hours a day and 60 hours a week, with immediate effect.

The extension of work hours was from eight hours a day and 48 hours a week. On May 22, the government had exempted all the factories registered under the Factories Act, from the provisions of Section 51 (weekly hours) and Section 54 (daily hours), till August 21 subject to certain conditions.

"Whereas, having examined the provisions further, the Government of Karnataka now intends to withdraw the said notification," the state government in a fresh notification dated June 11 said.

It said, "Therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred under Section 5 of Factories Act, 1948 (Act No. 63 of 1948), the Government of Karnataka hereby withdraws the Notification dated 22-05-2020 with immediate effect."

According to the Karnataka Employers' Association, a petition was filed in the High Cour challenging the May 22 notification as "illegal, arbitrary and in violation" of Section 5 of the Factories Act which permits exemption from any of the provisions of the Factories Act only in case of Public Emergencies'.

During the course of hearing on June 11 an observation was made by the High Court, that it may have to quash the notification unless the government clarifies as to what is the 'Public Emergency' involved to enhance the working hours by exempting some provisions of the Factories Act, it said.

The court further observed that the government should make a submission on June 12 in this behalf. However, the government withdrew the notification on June 11 itself. Recently states like Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh too had retracted after permitting extending work hours.

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July 28,2020

Bengaluru, Jul 28: Several state Congress leaders, including its President D K Shivakumar, among others, were detained by police as they tried to march towards Raj Bhavan here against the alleged attempts by BJP to topple the party's government in Rajasthan.

Shivakumar, along with Leader of the Opposition Siddaramaiah, state Congress Working President Eshwar Khandre, Salim Ahmed among others were stopped by the police midway as they marched from KPCC office towards Raj Bhavan.

Congress leaders then staged a dharna at the place where they were stopped. Addressing the gathering, Shivakumar accused the BJP of trying to "murder" democracy by destabilizing and removing elected governments.

"We wanted to protest against it and submit a memorandum to the President through the Governor," but the Karnataka government by using police was not letting them proceed towards Raj Bhavan, he said. "Despite our being a peaceful protest, the police stopped us," he said.

Siddaramaiah, echoing similar views, said peaceful protests against injustice was the right of every citizen. Alleging that the BJP was attempting to destabilise and remove the elected government in Rajasthan as it did in Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh, he said the Governor's office there (Rajasthan) was being 'misused'.

The Governor was working like an agent of the central government, he charged. He said, despite repeated appeals by the Rajasthan cabinet, the Governor there had not convened the assembly session, for the floor test to take place and for Congress to prove its majority. Police subsequently detained Shivakumar and some other Congress leaders and took them to a nearby police station.

They were later released. Meanwhile, as the Congress' protest amid Covid19 pandemic did not follow social distancing norms, Medical Education Minister K Sudhakar hit out at that party's leaders. In a tweet Sudhakar said, for Congress leaders getting publicity was more important than social concerns.

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July 16,2020

Hassan, Jul 16: In fresh incident of cast killing, a Dalit youth in Alur taluk of Hassan district was shot dead yesterday by the relatives of the girl with whom he was in love. 

The deceased identified as Madhu, a 30-year-old resident of Soppinahalli village. He had taken a 25-year-old girl with him and was planning to marry her after taking her family into confidence.  

The relatives of the girl, who belong to upper caste, claimed that Madhu had kidnapped the daughter of one Ramesh of the same village. The girl's uncle Rupesh had waylaid Madhu when he was on the way to the field and shot at him. 

The body of the deceased as been shifted to a mortuary. The accused Rupesh has gone absconding. Sources said that the family of Ramesh has strongly opposed the inter-caste marriage.

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