Kalkura continues his reign; re-elected president of KSP

April 29, 2012

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Mangalore, April 29: In a major setback to the splinter group, Pradeep Kumar Kalkura has been re-elected as the president of Dakshina Kannada district unit of Kannada Sahitya Parishat.

In a triangular fight Mr Kalkura defeated his closest rival journalist Sarvotham Anchan by a margin of 106 votes.

Although there were 1,932 registered voters in the district, only 977 candidates cast their votes in the decisive poll.

The polling was held at Mangalore taluk office, Bantwal taluk office, Puttur taluk office, Belthangady taluk office and Sullia taluk office from 8 am to 4 pm.

Sources from the Parishat said that Mr Kalkura bagged 464 votes, while Mr Anchan got 358 votes. Another candidate Harish Bantwal bagged only 149 votes. Mr Kalkura has been holding the post for almost 10 years.

While Mr Kalkura got major share of the votes in Bantwal, Puttur and Belthangady, Mr Anchan managed to get majority in Mangalore taluk.

Kalkura got only 192 votes in Mangalore taluk where Anchan was way ahead bagging 272 votes of the 472 votes polled.

Harish Bantwal got 118 votes in Sullia taluk where 138 members exercised their franchise.

Adiga in Udupi

Meanwhile, Neelavara Sugunendra Adiga has been elected as the president of Udupi district unit of the Parishat.

Mr Adiga won by a wafer thin margin of three votes against his nearest rival Tingle Vikramarjuna Hegde, in a direct contest.

While Mr Adiga got 298 votes, Hegde managed to secure 295 votes. Adiga bagged highest number of 211 votes in Udupi taluk where as Hegde got maximum number of votes (116) in Kundapur taluk.

Naik in U K

Rohidas Naik was re-elected for the third consecutive term to the post of Uttara Kannada district Kannada Sahitya Parishat.

Rohidas Naik, who polled 336 votes, defeated Sharada Bhat by 97 votes. Ms. Bhat, Aravind Karkikodi, and Sayyad Jameerulla polled 239, 216, and 107 votes respectively. There was a clamour for the change of the president this time. Despite this, Mr. Naik won the election again.

The election of an elite organisation was reduced to a fight over personal issues by different candidates who accused each other in press meets. While Mr. Naik won the highest votes in Kumta, Ankola, and Joida taluks, Ms. Bhat won the highest votes in Karwar, Siddapur, Yellapur, and Haliyal taluks.

Mr. Karkikodi won the highest votes in Honnavar, Sirsi, and Mundgod taluk. Mr. Shareef won the highest number of votes in Bhatkal. The total percentage of polling was 60.22.

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SDPI, PFI disturbing peace in Karnataka with the support of Congress: Sriramulu

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January 17,2020

Bengaluru, Jan 17: Karnataka Health Minister and BJP leader B Sriramulu on Friday claimed that Congress supports Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) and Popular Front of India (PFI) to disturb peace in the state.

His statement came after the arrest of 6 SDPI supporters in connection with an attack on a BJP-RSS follower during a pro-CAA rally held in December last year.

"The Congress party 100 per cent supports SDPI and PFI. Whenever they do not get the power, they try to disturb the peace with the support of SDPI and PFI. I will propose in Karnataka Assembly session to ban these organisations in Karnataka. We will discuss this matter," Sriramulu told ANI.

"We had already demanded for the ban on these organisations in Karnataka when I was an MP. Shobha Karandlaje, Yediyurappa and I had met Rajnath Singh, the then Home Minister in Delhi and we had given a memorandum to ban SDPI and PFI," he added.

A case has been registered against arrested SDPI supporters under relevant Sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). Bengaluru Police is constituting a new Special Investigation Team (SIT) to handle this case.

"There were 6 people belonging to SDPI, who were here to carry out attacks on leaders supporting CAA. These people were being paid Rs 10,000 from their handlers to create ruckus here. Now this will be handled by the Anti-Terror unit," said Bhaskar Rao, Bengaluru Commissioner of Police.

Earlier today, Karnataka Minister Jagadish Shettar called for a ban on SDPI.

"SDPI always denies their involvement but it has been proved now. I welcome the police's action. Their organisation should be banned as they have always been involved in anti-social activities and government of India should take very serious note of this," Shettar told ANI here.

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and RSS/bajrang dall creating peace??

What about Ballari Reddy? You reddys from Andra Pradesh making trouble in Karnataka.

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Cong urges Chief Election Officer to prevent Karnataka govt from hijacking local bodies

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May 22,2020

Bengaluru, May 22: Karnataka Congress delegation met Chief Election Commissioner, Dr B Basavaraju in Bengaluru, urging him to guide Karnataka Government to conduct local body elections and not to allow State government to nominate their party men to the local bodies.

The delegation was led by Congress leader Siddaramaiah and Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) president D K Shivakumar.

"They (State government) wants to postpone the election, they have a lot of other provisions. We are demanding to protect the law, the government doesn't have the power to interfere in the system. We will not allow the state government to nominate their party men.

The CM and his entire team is responsible for this, they are killing the democracy and Panchayati Raj system of the State," said Shivakumar while speaking to the reporters.

The local body elections were scheduled to take place in the month of March or April, which were postponed in view of the COVID-19 crisis.

However, the date for conducting the local body elections has not been decided yet.

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41 new covid-19 cases reported in Karnataka; total 794

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May 9,2020

Bengaluru, May 9: With 41 new cases of COVID-19 reported on Saturday, the total number of positive cases in Karnataka has reached 794, said the state Health Department.

Out of the total number, 386 are discharged and 30 patients have passed away. The total number of active cases now in Karnataka is 377.

The total number of positive coronavirus cases across the country is 59,662, including 39,834 active cases.

Till now, 17,846 patients have been cured and discharged and 1,981 deaths have been recorded in the country, as per the data provided by the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.

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