Former Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah addresses a press conference, in Bengaluru

Bengaluru: Former Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Wednesday said the people of Jammu and Kashmir as well as all other political parties should have been taken into confidence before abrogating the provisions of Article 370, that gave special status to the state.

Siddaramaiah, who is on a tour of flood hit regions of north Karnataka, especially Belagavi and Bagalkot, tweeted: “The Central government neither convened an all-party meeting nor spoke to the people of the state before the abrogation of the provisions of Article 370.”

The senior Congress leader felt the government should have spoken to the all concerned before abolishing the provisions in the Constitution as per the then prevailing political situation.

He said that the government “shouldn’t have thought of deriving political mileage out of it”.

“Who will address issues like unemployment,poverty, illiteracy and hunger if politics is played around emotional issues? The government’s job is not to gain sympathy, seek publicity and mislead people on emotional matters.

The tragedy, however, is that the Union government is doing nothing other than this,” Siddaramaiah said.

The Union government had on August 5 abrogated the provisions of Article 370 giving special status to Jammu and Kashmir.

The Congress leader also slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi for not visiting flood affected areas of Karnataka.

“The Prime Minister, who frequently visits foreign countries, has no time to tour flood affected areas.

Going abroad cannot be avoided, but shouldn’t one take note of the sufferings of the people of the country?” Siddaramaiah tweeted.

He flayed Modi for “focusing only on those areas where he got maximum publicity”.

Since he would not get due publicity, he did not travel to the flood affected areas, Siddaramaiah claimed.

The heavy rains which hit parts of Karnataka in the first fortnight of August, wreaked havoc with almost all the rivers in spate.

As many as 82 people lost their lives in flood and rain related incidents. About five lakh people were displaced.

According to the state government, 103 taluks of 22 districts were affected.

The flood damaged 7.5 lakh hectares of land and 75,317 houses.

Bengaluru, Aug 28: A 28-year old Army man was seriously injured after being allegedly pushed out of a moving train here by a gang of robbers when he resisted their attempt to snatch his mobile phone, Railway police said.

Made Gowda, hailing from Mandya in Karnataka, suffered grave injuries in his head in the incident that occurred on Sunday near Nayandahalli here and was in “a serious condition” at the Army Command Hospital here, his wife Deepa said.

The Government Railway Police, who have registered a case in connection with the incident, said there was no breakthrough so far.

Our investigation is on but we have not got any clue yet.

Made Gowda, posted in Bathinda in Punjab, was on his way home in Mandya by the train along with his wife and three-year-old daughter when the robbers tried to snatch his mobile phone near a toilet on Sunday morning.

As he fought with them, they attacked him and pushed him out of the train, Deepa, who is with her husband at the hospital, told PTI.

He has still not recovered. There are serious injuries in his head as he was pushed out of the train. Today there was some improvement as he moved his hands and legs, she added.

According to her, a boy who saw Gowda him falling from the train immediately alerted her and they pulled the emergency chain and brought the train to a halt.

We walked almost two kilometres and found him lying in the middle of the adjacent track, she added.

Appointment of three DyCMs an indication of the move while surprise-inclusion Laxman Savadi has a sore point with BJP leaders.

BENGALURU: By inducting three Deputy Chief Ministers in the BS Yediyurappa cabinet, the government has accommodated three leaders representing Lingayats, Vokkaligas and Schedule Caste, which constitute a large section of the state’s population. It could be an indication that the BJP is gearing up for ‘’early assembly elections’’. 

While fifth-time MLA Govind Karjol represents Schedule Caste, three-time MLA Ashwathnarayan represent Vokkaligas and Savadi, Lingayats.  The three names were doing the rounds for the past three days, which did not come as a surprise for many BJP leaders. Karjol has been associated with Yediyurappa from the beginning, while Savadi has BJP National Secretary BL Santhosh’s support. Ashwathnarayan played an important role in Operation Kamala, and got his due, said BJP sources. 

However, Savadi’s inclusion in the cabinet and elevation to deputy CM is more surprising as he lost the Assembly poll in 2018. “We don’t know why our leaders included him and gave him the DyCM post, it was unexpected,’’ said a senior BJP leader. 

Objecting to Savadi’s elevation, eight-time MLA Umesh Katti said, “The decision of the BJP leadership to appoint Savadi as DyCM was opposed by Yediyurappa. He is not happy with Savadi’s appointment.” Katti said he could not comment on the party leaders’ decision as he was just an MLA. “I can only say that it was the national leadership which decided to appoint Savadi as DyCM and not Yediyurappa,’’ he said. Asked whether he still expected the party to include him in the cabinet, he said, “I will wait and see how things unfold.’’  

Sources said the BJP appears to be readying for assembly elections. “If they go to polls, BJP can confidently say they have give second position to these castes and get votes. This matters a lot during polls,’’ the source said. This apart, by giving two slots to North Karnataka and one to the capital, BJP also attempted to reach more regions. The party has already appointed Nalin Kumar Kateel, from coastal Karnataka, as party chief.

Pramesh Jain

CCB Police raided BY CHANCE,Pub in Brigade Road violating noise norms after public complain,Two arrested:

Bengaluru: CCB police raided By chance bar and restaurant in Ashok Nagar police station limits for playing extreme loud music and allowing dance in the premises without license and 25 customers were present performing dance.
The BY CHANCE bar and restaurant was raided for playing extreme loud music and allowing customers to dance in the premises illegally.
Two were arrested from the bar for violating the law as per exercise department and along with 25 customers were detained.
The accused has been identified as,KR Rajanna,58,year old resident of Rajarajeshwari nagar,James John,44,resident of Lingarajapuram.
It is alleged the bar owner allowed group of college students boys and girls to perform dance on the premises and run DJ Music illegally with loud music disturbing normal public.
In accusation of playing songs and allowing the customers to dance.The loud speakers were kept at full volume and dance was going on in full swing.25 persons including the owner of the hotel, manager and customers were arrested.
Senior officer told media persons,Based on a credible inputs,that the bar is floating rules and allowing customers to dance on the floor with extremely loud music in Ashok Nagar police station limits as soon as the information was passed a team of Women and Narcotics wing swung into action and rushed to the spot and found that the BY CHANCE bar and restaurant owner was playing loud music and allowed customers to dance despite not having licence.He even said BY CHANCE had taken permission only to run a bar and restaurant,but was illegally playing music with a DJ and were disturbing public creating nuisance with the loud noise.It is alleged that there were many college going students girls and boys who were seen dancing on the premises in the ground floor and 1st floor like discotheques based on which our team raided the BY CHANCE bar and restaurant and secured 25 customers and two persons present in the discotheque during the raid was arrested and taken into custody.The raids come two months after the Karnataka High Court pulled up the police for its casual approach to taking action on complaints of high noise levels from pubs in residential areas.The police was criticised for conducting an inspection of noise levels in the evening and for failing to use suitable devices to measure the sound.Following a directive from the High Court, police officials conducted raid to curb noise pollution and running DJ in the premises illegally and a case has been registered in Ashok Nagar police station against the accused and his DJ console with other enquipments has been seized from his possession and further investigation is on and finally Bengaluru police Commissioner,Bhaskar Rao,has appreciated,Joint CP Crime,Sandeep Patil,DCP Crime,Kuldeep Kumar R Jain,ACP,Dr.HN Venkatesh Prasanna,and his team as,PIs,as,Mallikarjuna,K Narayangowda,Smt.Ayesha,PSIs,Dwarkanath,lakshminarasimhaiah,Smt.Shantha Shetty,with staff as,Siddaraju,Prakash,Nandish,Shashidhar,and Nilesh has been appreciated for the wonderful and commendable job done by them he added.

Pramesh Jain

Rave Party Busted,RG Royal Hotel,DJ,With 150 People including 50 Foreigners arrested by Bengaluru CCB Police :

Central Crime Branch police of Women and Narcotics wing have raided RG Royals Hotel situated near Mahalakshmi Layout in the city.150 people,including 50 foreign nationals were arrested during the raid. 
RG Royals Hotel was raided acting on tip off as reliable inputs passed a information that in RG hotels many people have gathered and are running loudspeakers at the terrace with high volume.
The CCB team raided the RG Royal hotel and arrested a,DJ,Tambe Daniel Atem,30,year old was detained cash and other enquipments was recovered from his possession.Along with him other accused identified as Ravish Gowda,the bar owner,Venkatesh,the General Manager,Sabastian,the Manager and Saleem,the event Manager are those who are absconding and efforts or to arrest them.
CCB cops received a complaint of playing music in a loud voice till 3 pm.Taking action on this, the police raided the hotel.150 people were found doing rave party on the occasion.
Senior officer, told media persons that,we received a credible information from our sources that a RG Royal hotel situated in Mahalakshmi Layout police station limits is supplying food,liquor and running loud musics illegally and allowing people to do party till 5am in the wee hours of Sunday and is making easy money by running a party beyond the time limits given by excise department as soon as the information was passed a team led by DCP Crime,Kuldeep Kumar R Jain,ACP,Venkatesh Prasanna with more than 50 CCB and his team swung into and rushed to the RG Royal hotel and found that the Hotel owner and manager has organised illegally Rave party and the team has raided the hotel and detained all the persons who were part of Rave party,150 people,including 50 foreign nationals were arrested during the raid and our team has learnt that illegal activities were being carried out in pubs and hotels in violation of the permit rules law.There are 50 foreign nationals among them.At the moment investigation is going on and passports and visas of foreign nationals are being checked and investigation on to ascertain is any drug substances is used in the Rave party the DJ identified as Tambe Daniel Atem has been arrested and we have seized the sound system and the DJ console and cash from his possession and efforts are on to arrest the absconding owner and mangers of the hotel and a case has been registered in Mahalakshmi Layout police station and further investigation is on finally Bengaluru Police Commissioner,Bhaskar Rao has appreciated,Joint CP Crime,Sandeep Patil,DCP,Crime,Kuldeep Kumar R Jain,ACP,W&N,Venkatesh Prasanna,and his team as,PIs as,K.Narayana Gowda,Smt.S.Ayesha,PSI,Lakshminarasimaiah,staff as,Harish,Prakash,Srinivas,Shashidhar,Nilesh and Prashanth has been appreciated for busting the Rave party organised illegally and securing all the customers successfully he added.

Pallavi C.N

Bengaluru, Town hall:Kashmir Society, a organization for the welfare of Kashmir, on 24th August went on a protest against the continuous communication blockade in Kashmir in the concern of article 19 (Freedom of speech and expression) at Town Hall. Understanding the right to freedom of speech and expression, they urged the government to end the communication blockade in Kashmir, which is leading to the unavailability of basic needs like internet, medicines etc, making the life of Kashmiris miserable. Addressing the gathering a Kashmiri said, “we have all gathered from different walks of life, different ethnicities, different religion, different all bound with one quintessential idea of human freedom that transcends all boundaries and differences. We urge the government to end the communication blockade and other restrictions that are being stringently imposed and ensure an immediate transition to normalcy so that we can get back our daily lives.. “

Pramesh Jain

Four dreaded criminals arrested by Vyalikaval police in Foiled Jewellery heist case cracked within 3 hours in Bengaluru:
“The instant and courageous action of the complainant brave couple Ashish and Mrs.Rakhi has done a excellent job in foiling robbery attempt and timely action by Sanjeev Gowda,PI and team in cracking the case within three hours is highly Commendable – Bhaskar Rao Pollice Commissioner”
“Appreciates the extraordinary courage and bravery and presence of mind exhibited by Ms.Rakhi and also by Ashish in foiling what would have been a very dastardly crime and would have brought down the prestige and brought down the safety standard of the city after the incident took place I also went to the spot and complimented and congratulated the young couple who has shown lot of bravery”

“Cased cracked within three hours “
The Central Division police of Vyalikaval police with other neighbouring Station inspectors and staff have arrested four dreaded criminals and recovered two country-made pistols and live ammunition bullets from their possession. 
The accused has been identified as,The prime accused, is identified as,Balaji Ramesh Gayakwad,25,Balwan Singh,24, Sriram Bishnoi,26,and Om Prakash.
The miscreants were armed with weapon while attempting to rob the Samrat Jewellers in Vyalikaval area But the Daring women the owner,Ms.Rakhi of Samrat Jewellers has foiled the robbery attempt by throwing a chair and raised an alarm the accused who opened a fire in air on their ceiling of the shop which resulted in the magazine of the pistol fell on the floor on impact all the three accused flee the spot.
Ashish Kumar the owner of shop who was near the cash counter jumped across and started chasing the accused but returned back after giving a chase he missed the chase and returned back for the safety of her wife and employees as what might be the plan of culprits so he returned back and locked the shop and informed police.
As soon as the incident was reported Vyalikaval police inspector Yogananda with Sanjeev Gowda PI of Sheshadripuram rushed to the spot and cordoned the area ACP Niranjanraj aras with Senior officers as DCP, Central,Chethan Singh Rathore,Addl CP west,Umesh rushed to spot and after collecting the information about the incident he passed the message to Commissioner of police Bhaskar Rao about the brave Act of Women the owner who has foiled the robbery immediately commissioner to rushed to spot to meet the brave women and thank her.
Smt.Rakhi,Wonder and Brave Women,the Samrat Jewellery Shop owner told media persons and shared her brave act in resisting the accused,she said the robbers came in and asked for a Sachin Tendulkar Chain while my husband was taking out the chain to show it to them they pulled out their guns and fired one round I picked up a chair that was near me and threw it at them they tried to run away my husband tried to chase them but he came back once he realized that this could be a ploy to distract us she said.
Ashish,Owner of Jewellery shop said,The incident took place around 2:30 pm on Wednesday.Three people came in and asked me for a chain when I turned to remove the chain they removed their guns and fired in the air my wife Who managed to pick up a chair hurled it at them after that they tried to run away I tried to chase them but realized that my wife and store could still be under threats so I rushed back immediately and called the cops who came to spot and took the case very seriously and nabbed all the accused within 12 hours we appreciate their efforts he added.
Senior officer who is part of investigation told reporters that,On Wednesday afternoon,three of them entered the shop on the pretext of buying a Sachin Tendulkar gold chain while the fourth man kept watch outside.Balawan, who was wearing a helmet,pulled out the pistol and threatened the owner Aashish Jain at gun point the couple resisted the armed accused as Aashish’s wife Rakhi, who was in the store,hurled a steel chair at the accused following which Balawan opened fire.The gang fled from the store and escaped on their motorcycle then Ashish who was near the cash counter jumped across and started chasing them he gave them a chase for some metres and returned back as he lost their chase while chasing the accused throwed his mobile and helmet on the Ashish and others so to not take any chance as her wife and employees were alone in the shop so to protect he returned back to his shop and closed the shutters and informed the cops the cops with other senior officials with dog squad and forensic experts rushed to the spot and the dog was pressed into action the dog squad inspected whole area which helped the cops to get their vehicle and mobile phone after collecting all the clues we formed three teams to track down the gang.They were tipped off about a suspicious black motorcycle near Vyalikaval Circle our team seized the motorcycle and the mobile phone with the tower location and details collected from the mobile after which the teams worked in different clues available and the team led by PI,Sheshadripuram,Sanjeev Gowda  the gang was nabbed from a rented home in DVG layout who had gathered at the spot after the attempted robbery the team recovered two country-made pistols,two rounds of ammunition and mobile phones from them.They were planning to flee to their respective native places after the foiled attempt after nabbing all the dreaded criminal gang the team grilled them in which the prime accused was Balaji spilled the beans and said he has decided to target smaller jewellery stores that were not as secure as banks.He had initially zeroed in on another store in Vyalikaval area but called off the plan after noticing CCTV cameras during a recce.He then zeroed in on Samrat Jewels on 2nd Main Road in Palace Guttahalli,Vyalikaval as he found no CCTV cameras installed and without realising that the owners had installed CCTV cameras.He deployed his associates to keep a watch on the store and the owner.After nabbing all the accused and detailed investigation was conducted by the team in which it has revealed that the prime accused,Balaji Ramesh Gayakwad,25,was involved in a bank robbery in Satara,Maharashtra,in March this year and has been on the run since then.Balaji was based in Bengaluru where he made artificial jewellery and silver items.After the bank heist, he left Satara with his share of the loot and returned to Bengaluru and he led a lavish life.He had invested in two country-made pistols from Bihar.He planned to use them to commit more crimes.It was these guns that the gang used for the jewellery heist on Wednesday.When he ran out of money, Balaji hatched a plan to rob a jewellery store.He roped in Sriram Bishnoi,23, and Omprakash,27,two fabricators from Rajasthan who lived with him in his rented house at Banaswadi.He also roped in Balawan Singh,a dismissed BSF constable, from Haryana.They had met through a common friend.Balaji allegedly convinced Balawan to come to Bengaluru for the job.Balawan arrived in the city a week ago and stayed in the Banaswadi house and Balaji wanted the former constable to train them in the use of arms.At the jewellery store,Balawan had allegedly pulled out a gun and opened fire.Investigations revealed that he was dismissed from the BSF after being arrested for opening fire at his neighbour over a property dispute in his hometown said senior officer.
Bengaluru Police Commissioner,Bhaskar Rao,said the Armed criminals visited the shop in the pretext of purchasing a Tendulkar gold chain while Ashish was trying to show that this one of the accused persons opened fire which hits the ceilings of their shop.Ms.Rakhi who was behind the counter showed extraordinary of mind and took out the chair and threw it to the accused persons when this chair fell on them they became little unnerved they became little unsteady and unstable and tried to escape then immediately Ashish jumped across the counter and started chasing them and two of them were inside and one person was assisting them took to their heels appreciates the extraordinary,courage and bravery and presence of mind exhibited by Smt.Rakhi and also by Ashish in foiling what would have been a dastardly crime and would have brought down the prestige brought down the safety standard of the city.After the incident took place ACP Sheshadripuram,Niranjanraj Urs,Sanjeev Gowda police inspector of Sheshadripuram and other staff rushed to spot under the leadership of DCP,Central,Chethan Singh Rathore and collected all the clues thereafter Joint Commissioner of Police Crime,Sandeep Patil,Addl CP,West,Umesh,visited the spot and later I also went to the spot complimented and congratulated the young couple who has shown lot of bravery.Later three special teams were formed under the able guidance and leadership of DCP,Central,Chetan Singh Rathore the team collected all the clues from the crime scene and swung into action one team was busy in analysing CCTV footage and one team was busy in locating them through sources and technical inputs after collecting CCTV footage the team passed the photographs of accused to all the stations and a special team headed by Sanjeev Gowda PI of Sheshadripuram got a credible inputs that the accused is in Vinayakanagar area of KR Puram as soon as the information was passed inspector and his team rushed to spot and zeroed in one of the accused who came to grocery shop to purchase some items was zeroed in and with this the team surrounded the whole area and zeroed in the other three accused from their rented house in Vinayakanagar without using any force the team nabbed all the four accused within 3 hours after the incident reported after nabbing all the four the team questioned them and during questioning they confessed the crime and a detailed investigation was conducted by the team during the course of interrogation the team grilled all the four accused who spilled the beans and it was revealed that the prime accused,Balaji Ramesh Gayakwad,25,was involved in a bank robbery in Satara, Maharashtra,which took place in March this year and he was on the run since then and has come to city and Balaji was working in making artificial jewellery and silver items and other three were his roommate who used to stay with him in his rented house after looting the bank he came to Bengaluru with his share and leaved a lavish lifestyle here as he has spent his money in buying two country-made pistols from Bihar and as he ran out of money he hatched a plan of looting a jewellery store but his luck went in vain as the extraordinary bravery act shown by Smt.Rakhi and Ashish has foiled their all dreams and lavish lifestyle now they will cool their heels in jail and further investigation is on to ascertain their criminal antecedents with this arrest of notorious dreaded criminal the inspector Sanjeev Gowda shown a very brave act who has risked his life as he was aware that the accused were armed with weapon but then also playing on their life the team zeroed in all the accused from their rented house without any extra force they have done the operation very intelligently and cleverly they nabbed all the accused before fleeing from here and a case has been registered in Vyalikaval police station under Arms Act and attempt to murder and investigations is underway and finally I appreciate,Addl CP West,Umesh,Joint CP Crime,Sandeep Patil,DCP,Central,Chethan Singh Rathore,ACP,Sheshadripuram Sub-Division,Niranjanraj Urs,PIs,as,Sanjeev Gowda,Naveen Kumar,Yogananda,PSI,as,Rajanna, probationary PSIs,as,Vasant,Sangappa Marabad,Crime staff as,L Prasanna Kumar,Jaganath Patil,Thimmachari,Yashodhar Naik,Girigowda,Vishwanath Gowda,Ranganath L,Prabhakar SM,Shivsiddegowda,RevannaSiddappa,Ramesh Pujari,and Praveen Kumar and other crime staff has been appreciated for their exemplary and excellent work in cracking the case within three hours and a reward of Rs.1 lakh to the team will be given for cracking the sensational case and I am recommending Ms.Rakhi’s name to the central government for her act of bravery he said.

New Delhi: Newly appointed BJP State President and Dakshina Kannada MP Nalin Kumar Kateel on Friday morning met his predecessor and Karnataka CM BS Yediyurappa in the city.

Nalin Kumar after becoming the party’s state chief met Yediyurappa for the first time in New Delhi on Friday.

MLA Vedavyas Kamath, Sanjeeva Matandoor, Bharat Shetty, Harish Poonja and former MLA Ganesh Karnik were present during the occasion.

Bengaluru: Congress Legislature Party leader and former CM Siddaramaiah on Friday blamed the Devegowda family for the collapse of Cong-JD(S) coalition government in the state earlier last month after a series of resignations from the MLAs of both the parties.

Siddaramaiah on Friday called a press conference in the city to respond to the allegations levelled against him by JD(S) supremo and former PM Devegowda blaming him for the collapse of the government.

“In an interview to a news agency Devegowda levelled allegations against me that I was the reason behind the collapse of coalition government. If I don’t respond to the allegations it will send wrong message across. That’s why I decided to call a press conference on this” Siddaramaiah said ahead of the press conference.

“Our aim was that the BJP should not come to power. Even after having over 80 MLAs we supported JD(S). And once the government was formed I never interfered in the administration of Kumaraswamy nor any such attempts were made. Now, when the government has collapsed they are blaming me to cover up their mistakes that led to the collapse of the government” Siddaramaiah told reporters.

“CM Kumaraswamy never implemented decisions taken by coordination committee. Only during meetings he would approve those decisions and never work on it. Most of his decisions were unilateral, he used to ignore Congress legislators. The ministers were not taken into confidence. That’s the reason why the coalition government collapsed. Kumaraswamy and Devegowda are to be blamed for the BJP government in the state” Siddaramaiah added while saying that Devegowda’s remarks against him were politically motivated.

“Devegowda is an expert in pulling down governments. History is open for all to see. Don’t we know what he did when Dharam Singh government was in power in the state? Devegowda was responsible for the collapse of Dharam Singh government after Kumaraswamy joined hands with BJP to form government” he further added.

“Similarly, Devegowda once again was the reason behind the collapse of BJP-JD(S) government when Kumaraswamy withdrew support to BJP without giving CM post to Yediyurappa” he remarked adding that he knows Devegowda well as he has been in JD(S).

FAIZAN RIZWAN & Pallavi Karnam

Bangalore: The launch of the first product of Kia motors, the world’s 8th largest automaker in mid-SUV segment has delighted car lovers.            The Seltos in the Indian market with an introductory price starting from INR 9.69 Lakhs for the entry level petrol Smartstream G1. 5HTE model going upto INR 15.99 Lakhs for the Diesel 1.5 CRDi HTX plus and Petrol Smartstream 1.4 T-GeiGTX(7DCT) and GTX plus top-end variant. The Seltos is BS-VI compliant and available in both petrol and Diesel variants with manual and automatic transmission options.    The company also announced the receipt of record 32,035 bookings for the Seltos so far which has set a new benchmark . The costumer delivery is being done from 22/08/19, Thursday. The overwhelming demand for Seltos is is well satisfied by the Kia motors India. Commenting on the occasion, Mr. Kook Hyun Shim, MD and CEO, Kia motors India said, “The Seltos has been one of the most ambitious project for Kia motors and even more for so Kia Motors India. The Seltos marks the Kia arrival in India for the first time, and we have put our heart and soul into this product . The Seltos is all about surprising everyone with it’s premium features, distinctive design, supreme quality, refined and powerful engine options, addictive performance and so much more. It I’d BS-VI compliant and has underground extensive testing to meet emission norms even with currently available BS-IV fuel, which makes it future proof. With the most advanced set of engine, fuel and transmission options in Seltos, we are confident to address all the unmet needs of the segment today. For our new aged digital savvy costumer, we have also designed a complete digital journey from booking, sales and delivery to after sales service there by ensuring the most evolved ownership experience ever . I am confident that that Seltos will redefine the entire mid SUV segment in India.”   In April 2017, Kia Motors signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU)with the state Government of Andhra Pradesh, India, to build a new manufacturing facility in Anantapur District. Construction of Kia Motors’ first manufacturing facility in India has been completed and the first car rolled-out on the 8th August, 2019. The production capacity of the plant is approximately 300,000 units per year