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Congress bites dust in Udupi dist; BJP sweeps all five constituencies

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May 15, 2018

Udupi, May 15: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has made a clean sweep by winning all the five Assembly Constituencies in Udupi district in the 2018 State Assembly elections, the results of which were announced here on Tuesday.

Constituency

Congress

BJP

JDS

Others

Udupi

Pramod Madhwaraj
59643

Raghupati Bhat
67996

Birthi Gangadhar Bhandary
627

0

Kaup

Vinay Kumar Sorake
39038

Lalaji R Mendon
48014

Mansoor Ibrahim
0

Anupama Shenoy (BJC)
880

Kundapur

Rakesh Malli
44771

Halady Srinivas Shetty
98444

Prakash Shetty
1406

0

Karkala

Gopal Bhandary
48679

Sunil Kumar
91245

0

Uday Kumar (BSP)
1348

Byndoor

Gopal Poojary
53185

Sukumar Shetty
67392

Ravi Shetty
768

0

In fact, the victory of the BJP was emphatic in all the five Assembly constituencies. The BJP not only retained the Karkala Assembly constituency, but wrested three seats — Udupi, Byndoor and Kaup from the Congress.

Such was the scale of its victory that even the Minister of State for Fisheries, Youth Empowerment and Sports, Pramod Madhwaraj, had to taste defeat at the hands of his classmate of school days, K. Raghupati Bhat, by a margin of 12,044 votes.

Mr. Bhat polled 84,946 votes, while Mr. Madhwaraj secured 72,902 votes.

Halady Srinivas Shetty, the four-term MLA from Kundapur, who returned to the BJP fold, defeated his nearest rival from the Congress party and president of State unit of Indian National Trade Unions Congress (INTUC), Rakesh Malli, by a margin of 56,405 votes, the highest margin in the district. This is Mr. Shetty’s fifth consecutive win from the constituency.

In fact Mr. Shetty improved his victory margin of 40,611 votes in 2013 Assembly elections, which was the highest margin of victory in the district in that polls.

Mr. Shetty polled 1,03,434 votes, while Mr. Malli received 47,029 votes.

Thekkatte Prakash Shetty of Janata Dal (Secular) got 2,712 votes. In Karkala Assembly constituency, the three-term BJP MLA, V. Sunil Kumar, defeated H. Gopal Bhandary of Congress party by a margin of 42,566 votes.

B.M. Sukumar Shetty, BJP candidate, won the Byndoor Assembly constituency seat by defeating Congress candidate, K. Gopal Poojary, who had won four times from this constituency, by a margin of 24,393 votes.

Anupama Shenoy, former Deputy Superintendent of Police and Secretary of Bharatiya Janashakti Congress, and the lone woman candidate in Assembly elections in Udupi district, came third place by getting 1,634 votes.

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Ibrahim Kaleel
 - 
Tuesday, 15 May 2018

Kapu constituencie JDS candidate " Mansoor Ibrahim" here mention zero vote.... where is self vote? mostly all candidate voting respective same party only....but here vote polling for him..? how come? something wrong in EVM!!

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August 2,2020

Bengaluru, Aug 2: All the seven Airports in Karnataka have seen poor traffic even after the restoration of domestic flight services post covid-19 lockdown. Interestingly, Mangaluru International Airport, the second biggest in the state, has slipped to third position in number of number of passengers and flights. 

Of all the seven airports in State-- Bengaluru, Mangaluru, Hubballi, Belagavi, Mysuru, Kalaburagi and Vijaynagara (Hosapete)-- it was the Sambra (Belagavi) airport which saw the highest number of passengers and flights after Bengaluru. 

According to Airports Authority of India report released on their website recently, the Sambra airport outperformed the Managluru international airport in June. 

As many 10,224 passengers travelled to or from Belagavi airport in June, whereas Mangaluru airport saw a footfall of only 8,608 passengers including 3,726 international and 4,882 domestic passengers. Belagavi airport handled 391 flights whereas Mangaluru airport handled 190 flights.

Even the Bengaluru international airport saw a decline in the number of passengers and flights in June. Only 3.69 lakh domestic and 10,654 international passengers arrived or departed from Kempegowda International Airport, Bengaluru in June as against 27.59 lakh total passengers in June 2019. 

Between April-June 2020 the Bengaluru airport saw only 4.54 lakh total passengers (domestic and international) as against 84.11 lakh total passenger during the same period last year. The number of flights to and from Bengaluru also saw a huge dip in June with only 731 international (2,582 in June 2019) and 4290 domestic (16,216 in June 2019) flights.

Though the Mysuru domestic airport handled a higher number of flights compared to last June, the number of passengers either arriving or departing saw a decline. Last year June 4,775 passengers travelled in 96 flights, whereas in June 2020 the airport handled 3,158 passengers and 330 flights.

Hubballi airport saw the least number of passengers or flights among the seven airports in Karnataka in June. It saw only 55 passengers either arriving or departing from the city's airport in 14 flights in the month of June. In the same month last year, Hubballi airport, which was third busiest before the pandemic, had facilitated 45,973 passengers and handled 604 flights.

Since April 2020 to June, the Hubballi airport has handled only 18 flights (as against 1,958 during the same period last year) and 122 passengers (1,50,416 between April-June 2019).

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February 22,2020

Bengaluru, Feb 22: Karnataka legislative assembly speaker Vishweshwar Hegde Kageri has issued a notification banning entry of journalists in the Legislators House.

"Electronic media and print media cannot enter the Legislators House any time," the notification issued by the Speaker's office read.

The notification which was issued on February 18 said, "The legislators come to Legislators House from their constituencies during the assembly session. It is their private time when they stay there. When journalists come to Legislators House to meet them, it's an invasion of their privacy."

"Arrangements will be made for journalists to speak to MLAs outside the gate. No journalist or camera person will be allowed inside the gate," the notification added.

The Legislators House is located near the Vidhan Soudha, the state legislative assembly.

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May 7,2020

Amaravati, May 7: Telugu Desam Party (TDP) president and former chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Wednesday said that Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa has assured him to offer immediate help to stranded Andhra fishermen.

Around 300 Andhra Pradesh fishermen are stranded on the coast of Malpe village in Udupi district.

"Karnataka CM has responded very positively and assured to offer the stranded fishermen immediate help. The fishermen hail from Srikakulam district in Andhra Pradesh.

Yediyurappa has also said that their team was also contacting Andhra Pradesh authorities to safely bring them back to their home state," Naidu said in a statement on Twitter.

In a separate letter to Yediyurappa, Naidu lauded the tremendous efforts that the government of Karnataka has been putting to fight COVID-19 and expressed his solidarity with the people there in this critical time.

Naidu said that many Telugu people that have migrated to other states for work were facing various problems due to the COVID-induced lockdown.

"In this backdrop, I would like to bring to your notice that around 300 fishing folk from Srikakulam District are stranded in Malpe Village, Udupi District, Karnataka. Their families, relatives and well-wishers are deeply worried for their safety and well being," Naidu said.

The TDP chief said that on behalf of those families and on his own behalf, he would appeal for sending the stranded fishermen back to their respective homes.

"In case that is not possible, I request you to provide them with shelter, food, water, medical aid and other essential commodities until the end of COVID lockdown," TDP chief said in a letter.

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