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Congress’ Reddy, JDS’ Gopalaiah skip hearing with speaker

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July 16, 2019

Bengaluru, Jul 16: Two of the rebel MLAs - R Ramalinga Reddy of Congress and Gopalaiah of Janata Dal (Secular) - have skipped a personal hearing fixed by Speaker KR Ramesh Kumar.

Ramalinga Reddy, who resigned from the assembly on July 6, informed the Speaker that he was unable to attend the meeting due to a private emergency. He had also abstained from the legislature session citing a similar reason.

After Reddy, along with 11 others rebel MLAs resigned on July 6, Kumar had asked Reddy and another JD(S) MLA Gopalaiah to personally appear before him on Monday and convince him that they had resigned “voluntarily and genuinely”.

Though Congress and JD(S) leaders were elated at his decision, sources said Reddy has opted to play it safe ahead of the Supreme Court’s crucial decision on the resignation of rebel MLAs. “He’ll only appear before the Speaker if the apex court rules in favour of the rebel MLAs,’’ they added.

When Reddy was asked whether he’d attend the monsoon session on Monday, he said: “I have submitted my resignation and it is before the Speaker. Till he accepts it, I am the member of the House and I am still with the Congress.’’

However, Congress leaders maintained they sense a change of mind in Reddy after senior Congress leaders, including Mallikarjun Kharge, ex-MP from Kalaburagi, and water resources minister DK Shivakumar met him at his residence and persuaded him to withdraw his resignation.

However, Gopalaiah, holed up in a Mumbai hotel, skipped the hearing too and sent a letter seeking another date.

Congress leaders feel if Reddy is persuaded to withdrawing his resignation, other MLAs from Bengaluru, including ST Somashekar, Gopalaiah, Munirathna, Byrathi Basavaraju and Roshan Baig, may follow suit and help them to save the JD(S)-Congress government. On July 17, the Speaker had asked two rebel MLAs — MTB Nagaraj and D Sudhakar — to appear before him. Three other rebels — Anand Singh, Pratap Gouda Patil and Narayan Gowda — scheduled to meet the Speaker for a hearing last Friday skipped it without giving any reason.

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March 1,2020

Mangaluru, Mar 1: Karnataka Minister for Major and Medium Industries Jagadish Shettar said that the flight service between Mangaluru and Hubballi will begin on March 29 under UDAN scheme.

Speaking to reporters on the sideline of the meeting of Industries Commerce of Magaluru, here on Saturday evening, he said while the city of Ports is the second busiest international airport after Bengaluru in Karnataka, other places, namely Hubballi, Belagavi, Kalaburagi and Bidar, have come on the air map with the UDAN scheme.

Stating that UDAN launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi was what the Golden Quadrilateral highway project of former Prime Minister A B Vajpayee had envisaged, Mr. Shettar noted that more flights are operating to and from Mangaluru now. This has paved the way for Industrialisation of the important city on the Bombay-Karnataka region, he added.

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June 24,2020

Bengaluru, Jun 24: Former Karnataka Chief Minister and Congress leader Siddaramaiah criticised the current state government rates for COVID-19 treatment in private hospitals and said that the patients must be treated free of charge in all hospitals.

"The state government has fixed rates for treating COVID-19. The current rates are shocking to the people," Siddaramaiah said.
Questioning the state government, he said, "Where can people pay these rates fixed by the government per day? Looking at these rates can be heartbreaking for the people. This raises the question of whether the government is sensitive to people's issues."

"The government must promptly announce free treatment and set up a standard treatment protocol. The government should appoint a panel of experts to continuously monitor whether treatment is being properly administered and create an environment where the public is free from anxiety," Siddaramaiah added.

Karnataka on Tuesday reported 322 fresh COVID-19 positive cases and eight deaths.
According to the state health department, the total number of positive cases has mounted to 9,721 and 150 deaths. So far, 6,004 people have been discharged. 

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April 17,2020

Bengaluru, Apr 17: Nikhil Kumaraswamy, son of former Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy, married Revathi, grand-niece of former Congress Minister for Housing, M Krishnappa, on Friday.

According to sources, more than 100 people participated in the marriage ceremony held at Kumaraswamy's farmhouse in Kethaganahally, Ramanagara.

There were around 50-60 members from former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda's family and more than 30 people participated from Revathi's family, sources added.

This comes in the middle of a nationwide lockdown which has been imposed to deal with the coronavirus threat.

Earlier, HD Kumaraswamy had said that the marriage ceremony would be held behind closed doors in the presence of family members.

Nikhil Kumaraswamy, who contested the Lok Sabha election from Mandya, is also the national youth wing president of Janata Dal-Secular.

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