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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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July 9,2020

Mangaluru, Jul 9: The coastal district of Dakshina Kannada today recorded death of two coronavirus patients.

Meanwhile, the district today also recorded 167 new covid cases taking the total number of cases to 1701.

Yesterday, the district had recorded 183 cases. Today more cases were reported from Bantwal and Ullal regions. 

According to sources, a 48-year-old man from Boloor, who was under treatment for covid-19 at designated covid hospital passed away today. 

A 62-year-old covid patient, who had SARI symptoms, breathed his last at a private hospital.

With this, the total number of deaths of covid-19 patients in the district reached 30 including two deaths caused by other reasons.

Of the 167 who tested positive on Thursday, 110 are males and 57 females including seven children.

Three have returned from Qatar and Dubai, one from Bengaluru, 42 are diagnosed with influenza-like illness (ILI), six are diagnosed with severe acute respiratory illness (SARI) and 64 are primary contacts of earlier patients. Contact tracing process of 38 patients is on, and 13 pre-surgery samples.

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April 12,2020

Belagavi, Apr 12: Karnataka police have filed cases against seven people for hiding their visit to Delhi for attending a religious congregation at Nizamuddin Mosque, last month, police said on Sunday.

The Commissioner office here, in a statement said that Hirebagewadi police filed cases against seven persons including one participant and his family members and Tablighi leader for hiding information regarding participation in the religious meeting 'Tablighi Jamaat ' at Nizamuddin in New Delhi in March.

A youth from the Hirebagewadi village had visited New Delhi and hidden information about his visit and misguiding the Task Force officials when they visited his house. COVID-19 Task Force and Model officials informed the matter to Hirebagewadi police.

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July 31,2020

Mangaluru, July 31: Coronavirus related deaths in Dakshina Kannada continued to surge, with the district administration recording five more fatalities in a day, thus taking the tally to 155.

The district has recorded multiple deaths every day from July 1 to 31. A majority of the deaths are due to comorbid conditions.

Among the five deaths reported today, a 47-year-old man from Mangaluru, was admitted to private hospital on July 30, and breathed his last on the same day. He was suffering from ARDS, Type 1 respiratory failure, COPD, Type II DM, HTN and died due to cardiac arrest.

Another patient was a 75-year-old man from Bantwal, who was admitted to a private hospital on July 23, and passed away on July 30. He was suffering from acute coronary syndrome, pneumonia (ARDS), metabolic encephalopathy, acute kidney injury, systemic hypertension, and type 2 diabetes mellitus.

The third patient was a 63-year-old man from Mangaluru, who was admitted to a private hospital on July 18, and passed away on July 30. He was suffering from ARDS, septic shock, renal failure, and secondary bacterial infection.

The fourth patient was an 88-year-old woman from Davanagere, who was admitted to a private hospital on July 9, and passed away on July 30. She was suffering from septic shock, and secondary bacterial infection.

The fifth patient was a 75-year-old man from Mangaluru. He was admitted to Wenlock hospital on July 15, and passed away on July 30. He was suffering from refractory ARDS, septic shock, renal failure, acute coronary event, arrhythmias, pulmonary thromboembolism, and hemoperitoneum.

The district administration said that though the above patients contracted coronavirus, the exact cause of their deaths is being investigated by a team of experts and their report is awaited.

On the other hand, Dakshina Kannada district recorded a total of 204 fresh cases, taking the tally to 5,713. Among the 204 new cases are 75 primary contacts, 63 with influenza-like illness (ILI), and 14 with severe acute respiratory illness (SARI). As many as 52 cases are under investigation. As many as 70 patients were discharged on Friday from Wenlock as well as private hospitals.

As per the district health bulletin, a total of 40,706 samples have been tested so far and 34,993 out of them have tested negative. Among the 5,713 positive cases reported in the district, only 2,929 are currently active. As many as 2,631 persons have recovered and been discharged.

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