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Activist’s open letter to Mangaluru South BJP candidate: Is your well-wisher a Pakistani terrorist?

coastaldigest.com web desk
May 9, 2018

Mangaluru, May 9: City-based rationalist and activist Narendra Nayak has written an open letter to Vedavyas Kamath, the BJP candidate of Mangaluru City South constituency for May 12 Karnataka assembly polls, seeking the latter’s reply for five questions.

Here is the full text of the open letter:

To

Vedavyas Kamath,

BJP’s MLA candidate

Mangalore City South

This open letter is being addressed to you (Vedavyas Kamath) and I do expect an answer in the media for the questions I have raised. Your close friend and associate Naresh Shenoy has been accused No. 1 in the murder case of BJP member and RTI activist Vinayak Baliga. However, despite being the president of the local unit of the party, you have not raised your voice against this coldblooded murder. Your silence has given rise to many suspicions.

When your friend Naresh Shenoy was absconding and on the run from the police for nearly three months it was noticed by many that you too were out of circulation and doubts were expressed about your whereabouts.

At that time an advertisement appeared on the page 8 of Udayavani Kannada daily (June 8, 2016) about your foreign trip without mentioning any dates of travel but naming the destinations as Indonesia, Vietnam and Singapore. I do hope you have had a good time there.

Strangely, the advertisement was inserted by one Mohammad Al-Kumari, Chairman of Ontime Money Exchange, Dubai, Bahrain. Well, a search on Google did not show any results for this and hence I had requested some friends in Bahrain and Dubai to look for the same. But they also could not find anything. While Dubai is a part of UAE, Bahrain is a separate country. I fail to understand how the two got separated by a comma! We would like you to kindly confirm as to who this well-wisher of yours was.

While I do not want to cast any aspersions on any community like your party does, it would be fair to demand clear answers to the following questions from our MLA aspirant:

1. Who is Mohammad Al-Kumari and what is nature of the firm that he is the chairman of?

2. Is there a possibility that Mohammad Al-Kumari is a Pakistani, a member of any terror outfits like Al Qaeda, ISIS (as you and your party are likely to question any of us and allege funding by outside sources).

3. Please let us also know whether the advertisement was paid for in foreign currency.

4. Since it is claimed that you were travelling to the above mentioned places, though the dates have not been mentioned it would be very kind of you to produce the pages of your passport with evidence that you were really going to these places at that time!

5. If the advertisement is false you could kindly let the voters know as to what action you would propose to take on the matter.

A photo of the controversial advertisement appeared on Udayavani Kannada daily on June 8, 2016.

Naresh Shenoy, founder of NaMo Brigade and a close friend of Managaluru City South BJP candidate Vedavyas Kamath with Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a programme Mangaluru (File photo). Shenoy is the prime accused in RTI activist and BJP worker Vinayak Baliga murder case.

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June 14,2020

Mangaluru, Jun 14: In a fresh case of vigilante attack, a cattle trader was tied to a buffalo-laden vehicle and thrashed by the miscreants belonging to Bajrang Dal in the city today. 

The victim has been identified as Mohammad Haneef Guddemane (34), a resident of Jokatte village on the outskirts of the city. 

The attack took place in the early morning near Infosys office at Urva, when Haneef was transporting his four buffalos to Kudroli slaughter house. 

The miscreants continued to thrash him until the local police reached spot. Based on the complaint of ‘illegal cattle transportation’ by the Bajrang Dal, the police took the victim to custody and also seized the buffalos. 

The police also took the victim to hospital and subjected him to covid test before producing him before a local judge.

While the Bajrang Dal members lodged complaint of illegal transpiration against the victim, the victim showed all the records of the cattle and lodged a counter complaint against the attackers.

It is learnt that Haneef had purchased 10 cattle from Haveri district and sold six among them. He was transporting remaining four buffalos to Kudroli slaughter house.

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June 21,2020

Kannur, Jun 21: Customs sleuths on Sunday seized 432 grams of gold worth around Rs 20 lakh from a passenger who arrived at Kannur International Airport from Dubai in Fly Dubai flight, scheduled under Vande Bharat Mission.

Customs Assistant Commissioner E Vikas-led team seized the smuggled gold from the passenger Usman of Malappuram district and detained him, sources said.

The seized gold was kept in his inner-wear.

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May 15,2020

Mysuru, May 15: The Temple Town of Nanjangud was till now treated as one unit or a Cluster Containment Zone and was put under complete lock-down as per the containment protocol listed under COVID-19 regulations and Disaster Management Act, 2005.

However on Friday, some of the restrictions have been lifted by Mysuru Deputy Commissioner Abhiram G Sankar who permitted certain activities as no fresh positive cases were reported from the cluster area. The Cluster Containment Zone was declared on March 29 following one employee of Nanjangud-based Jubilant Generics tested positive for the killer Coronavirus. As there were chances of the positive person spreading the disease to other employees of the factory, the cluster rules were enforced. Moreover, there were over 1,000 employees in the Pharma Company and a majority of them lived in and around Nanjangud.

The declaration of Cluster Containment Zone with complete lock-down and quarantining of all the Pharma Company employees proved a success to the District Administration as whoever tested positive – over 73 were later tested positive — had already been quarantined and the dangerous community spread phase was successfully prevented. To a major extent, the Corona virus curve has been flattened. As such, restrictions have been relaxed a bit on Friday.

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