We need ‘Samaj Sudharotsav’, not violent ‘Hindu Samajotsav’: Nidumamidi seer

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February 24, 2015

Mangaluru, Feb 24: Several activists belonging to Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) and other like-minded persons participated in a ‘Walk for Solidarity’ organised by Dakshina Kannada district unit of DYFI from Ambedkar Circle here on Tuesday, as a show of solidarity against programmes such as Hindu samajotsav.

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Speaking at the public meeting held in front of deputy commissioner’s office following the solidarity walk, Veerabhadra Chennamalla Swamiji of Nidumamidi Mutt said that instead of organising Hindu samajotsavas which leave behind a trail of communal clashes, rioting and violence in their wake, ‘Hindu samaja sudharotsavas’ should be organised to cleanse the Hindu society of its internal faults such as inequality among castes and oppression of lower classes.

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“Although there is no objection towards Hindus and Muslims organising their respective samajotsavas, such ‘utsavas’ should not encourage communal violence or give rise to communal clashes and rioting. The organisers of such utsavas merely organise them as a symbol of political power,” he said, stressing that all attempts to disrupt communal peace and harmony of the country should be vehemently opposed.

He said that people believed that causing harm and having loathing for religions other than your own was ‘Dharma’. “However, this is wrong, Heeding only about religion but not heeding the discrimination against lower classes and castes in your own religion is ‘Adharma.’ Hindu fundamentalists encouraging communal rioting and violence is not Dharma. It is this idea of causing harm to the weak and vulnerable that should be removed from the society,” he advised.

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Religious fundamentalists and extremists today are giving priority to communalism and violence as means of dividing the society, thereby creating an environment of fear and turmoil in the society. “The biggest tragedy of the country is that we are listening to those voices of hatred who are trying to divide the society on communal lines,” he said, adding that Hindus and Muslims should remove the extremists and fundamentalists from their communities to walk on the path of humanity.

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“We have stopped listening to prominent Hindu and Sufi saints who had strived to build a strong nation and played instrumental roles in reforming the society. But the fundamentalists of the present age are trying to misattribute their teachings and creating discrimination against the lower classes and gender discrimination to divide the society. They are devaluing the teachings of these saints to make them go unheeded, he said.

All those who call themselves Hindus, Muslims and Christians, should become Indians first and not look at the nation from the viewpoint of religion, he added.

‘India cannot be a one-religion state’

On the growing demand for a Hindu Rashtra by several Hindutva groups, he said that none of the freedom fighters who fought for the country had envisioned the concept of India as a one-religion state with a single official religion. “Such a state cannot be created as our Constitution states India as a secular country and advocates freedom of all religions. However, the idea of several religions living together in peace and the tradition of practicing humanity are being discarded by people who only wish for greater political power,” he said.

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Speaking on the issue of Ghar Wapsi, Swamiji said that such reconversion programmes in the country were a major effort to retain the converted groups as vote-banks for political purposes, not necessarily with the aim of uplifting them.

‘No precautionary measures in view of Samajotsav’

Muneer Katipalla said that politicians made big statements of opposing communalism in the district before the elections, but they keep mum when communal clashes take place. The state government who banned Praveen Togadia from taking part in the Hindu Samajotsava in Bengaluru, has not taken any precautionary measures in view of the same event in Dakshina Kannada, he said.

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Lashing against the state government and chief minister Siddaramaiah, he said that it was the duty of the government and police department to implement strict measures to preserve the peace of the district.

DYFI leaders Dayananda Shetty, B K Imtiyaz, SFI leaders V Ambareesh and Nithin Kuthar, Dalit Sangharsha Samiti leader M Devadas, progressive thinker Chandrakala Nandavara, CPI(M) leader Vasanth Achari, Vasudeva Uchil, Yashawanth Maroli, Kirana Prabha and others participated in the solidarity walk and public meeting.

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March 8,2020

Bengaluru, Mar 8: The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has identified three more locations to open Viral Research Diagnostic Laboratories (VRDL) including in Mysuru, Hassan, and Shivamogga in Karnataka.

According to a statement issued here on Sunday, these laboratories will start functioning shortly in Mysuru Medical College and Research Institute, Hassan Institute of Medical Sciences, and Shivamogga Institute of Medical Sciences. Besides, the ICMR has also identified sample collection centres in Vijayanagar Institute of Medical Science in Ballari and Kalaburgi Institute of Medical Sciences.

B G Prakash, State Joint Director (Communicable Diseases), said that the new Laboratories will help to ease the load on the two designated laboratories in Bengaluru. Currently, the virology laboratory in Bangalore Medical College and Research Institute and the NIV branch in Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Chest Diseases are doing COVID-19 tests in Karnataka.

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April 3,2020

Udupi/Mangaluru, Apr 3: As many as 11 liquor addicts in Udupi and Dakshina Kannada districts have committed suicide, due to non-availability of liquor.

It is said that the District administration, in association with Psychiatrists, have taken the initiative to provide counselling services, along with telemedicine, to the addicts.

Deputy Commissioner G Jagadeesh said on Thursday that arrangements will be made to provide treatments and personal counselling for the liquor addicts.

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April 22,2020

Bengaluru, Apr 22: The Karnataka government has announced partial relaxation of COVID-19 lockdown norms in the state allowing certain construction activities, manufacturing of packaging materials, courier services, among others, from April 23.

The activities will be permitted only outside the COVID-19 containment zones identified by the government.

Service provided by self-employed people like electrician, IT repair, plumbers, motor mechanics, and carpenters in local areas have also been given exemption.

Tea, coffee and rubber plantation have been allowed to work with 50 per cent workforce, and a similar exemption have been given to processing, packaging, sale and marketing of these produce.

“To mitigate hardship to the public, select additional activities have been allowed,which will come into effect from 00.00 hours of April 23,” Chief Secretary TM Vijay Bhaskar said in an order on Wednesday.

However, these additional activities will be operationalised by District Administrations and BBMP (city corporation in the case of Bengaluru city) based on strict compliance to the guidelines on lockdown measures, it said.

Before operating these relaxations, district administrations and BBMP (city corporation) shall ensure that all the preparatory arrangements on social distancing in offices, work place establishments as also sectoral requirements are in place, it said, adding that relaxations will not apply in containment zones.

Facing a financial crunch, the state government has been eager to kick-start economic activities in the state that had come to halt due to the coronavirus lockdown.

While hospitality services, bars, malls, theatres, shopping complexes, religious and places of worship among others will continue to remain shut, relaxation of norms has been for activities that are linked to essential services such as health, infrastructure and agriculture.

As per the order, while, public transportation will continue to remain suspended till May 3,private vehicles with passes for emergency services and personnel commuting with passes to places of work and back will be allowed.

Activities permitted include construction of roads, irrigation projects, buildings and all kinds of industrial projects, including MSMEs, in rural areas and all kinds of projects in industrial estates, where workers are available on site and no one is required to be brought in from outside.

Also permitted to function are manufacturing units of essential goods – drugs, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, their raw materials and intermediates;

food processing industries in rural areas, coal production (mines and mineral production and activities incidental to mining) besides manufacturing units of packaging materials.

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