Mangalore pays tribute to Ambedkar on his 121st birthday

April 14, 2012

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Mangalore, April 14: The Dakshina Kannada district administration celebrated the 121st birth anniversary of Dr B R Ambedkar, the architect of the Indian Constitution, at Town Hall, here on Saturday.

The function was attended by MLA Yogish Bhat, MP Nalin Kumar Kateel, chairman of Coastal Development Authority -B Nagaraj Shetty, Dhanalaxmi Janardhan- Vice president Zilla Panchayath, Vijayalakshmi Shetty- Secretary D K Zilla Panchayath, Zilla Panchayath CEO- K N Vijay Prakash, Deputy Mayor Amitha Kala, President of Karnataka Minority wing – N B Abubakar, Deputy Commissioner Dr Chanappa Gowda, Commissioner of Police, Seemanth Kumar Singh, Superintendent of Police Abhishek Goyal and Prof Abhay Kumar – Department of Kannada, Mangalore University.

MP Nalin Kumar Kateel inaugurated the function by lighting the lamp. The dignitaries then paid floral tributes to the portrait of Dr B R Ambedkar.

Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Kateel said that Ambedkar changed the thoughts of the citizens and brought about an awareness of national pride amongst the Indians. “He (Ambedkar) struggled through pain, but never showed it. He saw to it that all sections of the society secured justice and spread the idea of equality amongst people,” Mr. Kateel said.

“Ambedkar was a true visionary and raised his voice against exploitation in society. He not only fought for freedom but also gave a direction in which the society needs to function. We must follow his ideals,” he said.

Prof. Abhay Kumar, in his presidential address, compared the contribution of Ambedkar with Mahatma Gandhi. “Gandhi was a leader while Ambedkar was a visionary of society,” he said. “While Gandhi put forth ideas, Ambedkar gave it a structure. Ambedkar should not be idealised as a Dalit leader just because he came from an 'untouchable' caste. He is a national leader and did not form constitution only for Dalits, he said. Paying tribute to Devraj Urs, he said: “We had another leader (Devraj Urs) who took care of backward classes, but nobody remembers him. Ambedkar gave us constitutional freedom and thus made our democracy functional,” he observed.

Mangalore MLA U T Khader hailed Ambedkar as someone who gave the nation its Holy Book. “Hindus, Christians and Muslims have their holy books. But for a country there is only one constitution which governs the functioning of our democracy,” he said.

B Nagaraj Shetty pointed out that rural India needs to bear the fruits of good governance and thus the nation has to be run according to the ideals of the constitution. He compared that if Ambedkar has struggled so much the least we could do was to follow his vision of a corruption-free society.

The programme was organised jointly by the district administration, D K Zilla Panchayath , Mangalore City Corporation and Social Welfare Department. A large number of government officials, police officers and political leaders were present.

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Emphasising the need for a judicial probe into the incident, Khandre said, "Congress has always said that the truth should prevail and that there should be a judicial inquiry and investigation by a sitting Supreme Court judge or a High Court judge into the incident."

"We support his (HD Kumaraswamy) statement that a House Committee should be set up to probe into the incident of Mangaluru violence. Two innocent people lost their lives during the anti-CAA protest, it is very unfortunate," he added.

Two people were killed in Mangaluru in the alleged police firing after protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act turned violent on December 19.

The Act grants Indian citizenship to refugees from Hindu, Christian, Sikh, Buddhist and Parsi communities fleeing religious persecution from Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh who entered India on or before 31, 2014.

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Mysuru, Mar 7: Former minister and senior Congress leader and sitting MLA Tanveer Sait has shot off a letter to state Home Minister Basavaraj Bommai expressing his dissatisfaction over the slow progress in the investigations regarding the attack on him.

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Mr Sait urged the Home Minister to request the police to speed up their investigation and solve the case at the earliest and give him justice.

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April 24,2020

Thiruvananthapuram, Apr 24: Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Thursday said that there is no community spread or the expected phase three spread of coronavirus in the state so far but the threat continues.

Speaking to media persons here on Thursday, Vijayan said that Kasargod, Kannur, Kozhikode, and Malappuram districts will be in the red zone with full restrictions.

"All the other ten districts in the State will be in the orange zone. With the detection of new cases today, the status of Kottayam and Idukki districts have been changed from green to orange. The district administration will decide on the hotspot areas to be closed," he said.

He said there would be an increase in the number of random tests in the red zones.

"In an effort to confirm that there is no community spread in the State, random antibody tests would be conducted among health workers, police personnel, home delivery persons, volunteers and migrant labourers," he added.

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