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Addressing a rally at Ghazipur in Uttar Pradesh last week, PM Narendra Modi had said the Congress promised loan waivers to lakhs of farmers, but the JD(S)-Congress coalition in Karnataka did not deliver.

HD Deve Gowda said more than 60,000 farmers have already received money directly into their bank accounts
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Former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda Wednesday hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for taking a jibe at the Karnataka government’s farm loan waiver scheme and questioned him about demonetisation and the Ram temple issue.

“I have observed taunting statements of @narendramodi on Karnataka’s crop loan waiver scheme. Dear PM, more than 60,000 farmers have already received money directly into their bank accounts. We are determined to keep our promise to the farmers and are acting on the same lines,” Mr Gowda said in a tweet.

“Dear @narendramodi, if your index finger is busy questioning us, the other fingers are questioning you about demonetisation, Clean Ganga, inter-linking of rivers, Ram Mandir and other unfulfilled promises. Please remind yourself about how you treated farmers during protests in Delhi,” the JD(S) chief said in another tweet.

Addressing a rally at Ghazipur in Uttar Pradesh last week, PM Modi had said the Congress promised loan waivers to lakhs of farmers, but the JD(S)-Congress coalition in Karnataka did not deliver.

“Lollipops” were handed out. The loan waiver was given to only 800 farmers, PM Modi had claimed.

Also, taking on the state government over loan waiver scheme, PM Modi, while addressing party workers of the state via video conference, on Friday had termed it as the “most cruel joke on farmers”.

PM Modi’s comments had drawn sharp criticism from Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy and Congress leader Siddaramaiah.

While Mr Kumaraswamy had accused the Prime Minister of misleading the country for “political gains, Mr Siddaramaiah questioned PM Modi’s “moral right” to criticise the state government’s farm loan waiver scheme and called him “anti-farmer”.

The Kumaraswamy-led state government had announced over Rs. 45,000 crore loan waiver scheme in July, soon after coming to power.

But it has been bogged down by several issues relating to banks.

Nasheman News :  Four Congress workers were hit and injured by the pilot vehicle of Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan when he was returning home from office for lunch on Thursday, the Congress said.

Congress legislator M. Vincent told IANS that the four party workers got injured in two different incidents.

He said some Congress activists waving black flags were hit by the pilot vehicle in what he insisted was “a deliberate attempt”, injuring two of them. 

Later, another 200 metres from the first site, “the pilot vehicle knocked down two of our workers who were on a two-wheeler”, said Vincent.

Congress legislator K.S. Sabarinadhan told IANS that two of them had been taken to the Medical College Hospital and two were being treated at the General Hospital.

“Our workers have got bruises and injuries on the shoulder, hands and legs,” he said.

The Congress is observing Thursday as a black day to protest the manner in which the government facilitated two women to pray at the Sabarimala temple a day earlier.

UP CM Yogi Adityanath directed all the district magistrates to ensure that stray animals, including cattle, are transported to Gau Sanrakshan Kendras by January 10.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has directed all the district magistrates to ensure that stray animals, including cattle, are transported to ‘Gau Sanrakshan Kendras’ by January 10, an official said Thursday.

Addressing the district magistrates (DMs) through video conferencing on Wednesday night, Adityanath said they should ensure that farmers and residents do not face any problems due to stray cattle.

Kanji Houses in every district would be renamed ‘Gau Sanrakshan Kendras’.

“Those leaving their cattle on roads should be dealt with strictly and fine should be imposed on them when they come to take their cattle from such centres,” the chief minister said.

Adityanath said help from traders, businessmen and people’s representatives should be sought in running these ‘Gau Sanrakshan Kendras’.

The state government has been under some pressure from farmers protesting over stray cattle destroying their crops.

Over the past week, people in at least two villages in western UP’s Aligarh and Firozabad districts rounded up stray cattle and locked them up in government schools, refusing to let classes run until the administration did something about the animals.

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Nasheman News : A dawn-to-dusk Kerala shutdown call, given by the Sabarimala Karma Samithi (SKS) to protest against the visit of two women to the Sabarimala temple on Wednesday, evoked a mixed response in the state on Thursday.

The SKS said the shutdown was intended to oppose the role of the Kerala government which apparently facilitated the entry of the women inside the temple before dawn on Wednesday.

There were skirmishes at various places between the organisers of the shutdown and those who tried to resist it.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Sangh parivar forces have pledged their support to the SKS shutdown call, and their activists are enforcing it.

While state-owned and private buses are off the road, private vehicles, mostly two wheelers are plying. Private cars are also moving in Thiruvananthapuram and other major cities in Kerala.

Ten people in Kannur were arrested after they attacked vehicles that plied before the BJP office.

Even as the two traders’ body in the state had announced that they would open their shops, in several places, shops were yet to open.

However, in Kozhikode, traders were determined to open their shops, even as the SKS and BJP activists were protesting.

“This frequent calling of shutdown is not acceptable as we are determined to open the shops and from now on, we will open in future also,” said a group of shopkeepers at Kozhikode.

Similarly, in Thevara near Kochi, shops are open.

An incident of stone pelting at an interstate bus from Karnataka was reported from Kozhikode district. 

Similar incidents have also been reported from Kasargode, Palakkad and certain other places.

Various university examinations scheduled for Thursday have been postponed and all educational institutions in the state are closed.

Meanwhile, the weekly cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan decided to see that strong action is taken against those who try to create trouble during the shutdown.

At Pandalam in Alappuzha district, angry BJP and Sangh parivar activists took out a protest march, after one of their supporters who was injured in a stone throwing by CPI-M workers, on Wednesday, died late night.

One CPI-M worker has been arrested and the wife of the deceased said the family does not believe that a fair probe will happen.

Panic gripped Sandalwood on Thursday as sleuths from the Income Tax department knocked on the doors of producer Rockline Venkatesh and Power Star Puneet Rajkumar’s homes.

It is said that residences of producers of Blockbuster hit KGF Vijay Kiragandhur and Villain producer CR Manohar have also been raided. 

On Thursday morning, eight officers who came in two vehicles raided the house of Rockline Venkatesh in Mahalakshmi Layout and Puneeth Rajkumar’s residence in Sadashivnagar. 

According to sources, the officers conducted raids in 10 places in total. The IT officials are checking the documents at the residences of the producers. All the mobile phones of the people being raided were switched off and the family members were not available to comment.

Residences of KGF star Yash, film producer Jayanna, actor Sudeep and Shivrajkumar are also being raided.

Agencies