Yeddyurappa hosts lunch to 102 Dalits at his house, gifts them sarees, dhoties

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August 29, 2017

Bengaluru, Aug 29: An elated Shobha showed off her shining new red saree. “I’ve been walking around wearing old sarees. I have a new one now, ” she said. The 57-year-old woman from Hubballi was among 102 Dalits who had lunch with BJP state president B S Yeddyurappa at his posh Dollars Colony home here on Monday.

The Dalit families Yeddyurappa hosted were those whose homes he visited for breakfast and lunch during his Jan Sampark Abhiyan between May and June this year. Not only did Yeddyurappa personally serve them lunch, he also gave away parting gifts - two pairs of sarees for women and two pairs of dhoti-shalya and shirts for men.

Dalits make up one of the largest chunks of voters. Even the Congress and JD(S) are drawing up plans to reach out to them ahead of the 2018 Assembly polls.

“I have specific plans for the upliftment of the marginalised communities. I will tell you what they are once I return to power,” Yeddyurappa told the Dalit families. “My visit to your homes is afresh in my eyes. Many homes didn’t have proper kitchens and rooms. Still, you invited me despite facing opposition. I will never forget it.”

Hitting out at Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee President G Parameshwara for criticising his outreach effort, Yeddyurappa said: “I want to ask them, have you invited Dalits to your home? Have you visited Dalit mohallas? There is an awakening among Dalits now and they will teach the Congress a lesson.”

The families were accompanied by some Dalit faces of the BJP - former ministers Govind M Karjol and A Narayanaswamy, legislator D Veeraiah, former IAS officer Shivaram and party state general secretary N Ravi Kumar.

Transportation arranged

BJP district units were made responsible to ensure travel arrangement of the Dalit families and ensure they reached Yeddyurappa’s Dollar Colony home on Monday morning. Post lunch, two buses were arranged to take the families on a tour of the Vidhana Soudha, ISKCON temple, Cubbon Park and Lalbagh. “Four-fifths of the families have never visited Bengaluru,” Yeddyurappa said.

Dalit seer Madara Chennaiah Swami from Chitradurga was also present. “Contrary to popular belief, Dalits face atrocities at the hands of Other Backward Classes (OBCs) and not Veerashaiva Lingayats or Vokkaligas,” he said.

“Senior IAS officer Ratna Prabha was not made Chief Secretary. Who was responsible for that,” he asked.

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TR
 - 
Tuesday, 29 Aug 2017

ಮಾಡಿದ ಪಾಪ ಪರಿಹಾರ ಕೋಸ್ಕರ ಯಾಹ್ತ್ನಿಸುತಿದ್ದರಾಯ್.

 

ಯೆಡ್ಯೂರಪ್ಪ ಸ್ವಾಮಿ ನಿಮ್ಮ ಕಲಾ ಮಿಂಚಿ ಹೋಗಿದ್ಯ ಯಾವದಾದ್ರು ಮಠ ನೋಡ್ಕೊಳ್ಳಿ ಸ್ವಾಮಿ.

Raghav
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Tuesday, 29 Aug 2017

There is an untouchability complaint against BJP chief and former CM BS Yeddyurappa. The complainant has said that though he posed to be eating at a Dalit home, the fact is that the food was from a hotel and not the one prepared by the Dalit family. A Dalit has filed a complaint with Mandya district police against Yedurappa. Yedurappa has been accused of practising untouchability.

ali
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Tuesday, 29 Aug 2017

YAddis drama for just vote bank>>> just see his cunning face haha fraud number 1

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May 12,2020

Bengaluru, May 12: Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa had promised to extend all co-operation for the safe and early return of the Karnataka ex-pats, living in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), here on Tuesday.

He was speaking to the Karnataka ex-pats living in UAE, who had pleaded the chief minister to make arrangements for their return to the state.

Those who had spoken to the Chief Minister had informed that there is a large number of people, landed into a great difficulty ever since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and eager to return to their home state, Karnataka.

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April 23,2020

Mangaluru, Apr 23: An astronomical phenomenon, ‘Zero Shadow Day', will be observed in Mangaluru on April 24 and in Udupi on April 25. 

According to a press release from Poornaprajna Amateur Astronomers’ Club, the wonder will commence and people will see their shadows disappear for a few moments at 12:28 pm.

The phenomenon is called as Zero Shadow Day. If a person takes a candle in a dark room and use it to create a shadow of one’s palm on the wall, the hand will cast shadow on the wall as one moves the hand. But when one places the palm on the wall, there will be no shadow.

In the phenomenon, the sun at these times shines exactly above the heads on these days. In astronomy, this point is called as Zenith. The point in the sky directly above an observer at any given location. So it is quite clear now that on Zero Shadow Day, the sun passes through the Zenith as a result of which, all objects will have minimal or no shadow if they are on the ground.

The reason for this happens on some specific days is concerned with astronomy. The earth spins around on its own axis and causes days and nights. It also revolves around the sun causing a year. But the seasons are caused because the axis is tilted at an angle of 23.5 degrees. It is because of this tilt that the sun rises every day in the east gradually moving towards the north till June 21st and then slowly proceeding towards the south till December 21st every year. “We call these days solstice. This means the sun shines between the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn every day passing by the equator on the days we call equinox,” the release stated.

As the earth moves around the sun and revolves on its own axis, for all the people between Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn, the Sun at noon moves father and closer to the zenith passing through zenith twice causing two Zero Shadow Days per year. People at Mangaluru will observe this on April 24 and August 18 every year and People in Udupi will observe this on April 25 and August 17 every year.

Places with same latitudes will observe the same days of Zero Shadow but the time would vary with longitude. For example, people of Bengaluru as they share the latitude with Mangaluru will also observe it on April 24. While the people of Mangaluru will observe their shadows disappear at 12.28pm, people of Bengaluru will observe this at 12:17pm. Places like Moodabidri, Bantwal, Sakleshpur and Hassan will also observe Zero Shadow on April 24.

Places like Brahmavar, Karkala, Sringeri, Kudremukha, Chikkamagaluru will observe the Zero Shadow Day on the same day as Udupi on April 25.

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February 2,2020

Mangaluru: The first-of-its kind Beach Zumba event organized by Veekshitha Arasa on January 26th at Panambur Beach, Mangaluru attracted huge crowd and entertained the masses. Thousands of people who visited the beach last Sunday evening witnessed and danced along with the talented Zumba instructors from Bengaluru and Mangaluru. The show lasted for almost two hours.

The programme was organized by Veekshitha Arasa in association with Panambur Beach Tourism with the cooperation of Panambur Police and sponsorship of AJ Hospital & Research Centre, APD Foundation and SS Arrangers & Caterers.

Panambur Beach Tourism CEO Yatish Baikampady, APD Foundation Trustee Abdullah Rehman and Santhosh Kumar from SS Arrangers and others flagged off the event by releasing saffron, white and green balloons (the colours of Indian tricolor) to mark the nation’s Republic Day. Panambur beach police officials too participated in the inauguration. Veekshitha Arasa’s husband Rohan Lobo, Veekshitha’s parents Bhaskar Arasa and Geetha B Arasa too joined in.

This was done with the message ‘Let the love for health and fitness fly high among the citizens much like the soaring spirit of patriotism’. Speaking on the occasion, Veekshitha said that it was her dream to conduct a Zumba event in the city. “This is my small attempt at promoting fitness among the citizens of Mangaluru. There should be more such events,” she said.

Meenal Dubey, Ashwitha Shetty, Vishal Rai, Aishwarya, Namratha Shekar, Shruthi Keerthiraj, Vinayak Acharya, Kavitha Manish and Urmi were some of the enthusiastic Zumba instructors who performed with Veekshitha.

RJ Nayana and Saravanan Govindaswamy compered the event.

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